Ned Soltz of RedShark News also got his hands on the Tangent Ripple. In fact, the integration works so well, there are nearly countless options. Using the Lumetri color panel, the surface can control the three-way color corrector, and both the A and B buttons can be mapped for just about anything. While not perfect for DaVinci users, the Tangent Ripple is rather stellar in Premiere Pro. It does speed up simple controls, but it doesn’t appear that Blackmagic is in any rush to update to program to work with the Ripple - perhaps because the company sells its own professional color grading panel. The Blackmagic product does not integrate with the Ripple that well, so users will still find themselves using the mouse to adjust things like saturation. Perhaps the most noteworthy point: Only one button works in DaVinci Resolve. The bigger downsides were how easy it was for your hand to slip off of the top knobs and how easily the track balls come out of the controller.įaris goes on to test the Tangent Ripple in both DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. In regards to the Tangent Ripple control surface itself, he finds the overall build satisfactory, even though some knobs have a very toy-like, plastic feel. He does praise some features, yet his complaints are well founded. Here’s what members of the community have to say.Ĭasey Faris has one of the best early reviews of the final consumer model. Note: With the device on backorder, I haven’t yet experienced the Ripple firsthand. In these reviews, there seems to be plenty of good news, and some okay news. So, what’s the word?Īt $350, the Tangent Ripple comes in at a fraction of the cost of all the other major color grading control panels, so you can only complain so much about its missing features. The Tangent Ripple Color Grading Surface is one of the most anticipated devices of 2016 - and now the user reviews are pouring in.

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