[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 04:02 pm, john mahoney wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net>
>
> > > Better still would be to use motorized faders. :-)
> >
> > Where can these be found at any kind of a sane price?
>
> I've seen them for $4 at surplus places like (maybe) bgmicro.com, but they
> admittedly have a limited selection of values. I have no idea what new ones
> cost, but people pay $5 or $6 for plain old pots, so what do you consider a
> sane price? :-)

I don't know,  I've been out of it for a while and don't have a handle on the 
pricing of stuff these days,  not hardly.  Well,  maybe on some computer 
gear...  :-)

> > > Don't like the physical layout of the available controllers? Then take
> > > the DIY route with a Doepfer controller and your own pots in your own
> > > case.

> > What's that?

> They make a few variations. Look on Doepfer's English home page, right near
> the top, where it says "Examples of MIDI controllers built by our customers
> based on Pocket Electronic, CTM64, MTC64, Dial Electronics and so on."
> http://www.doepfer.de/home_e.htm

Ok,  I'll have a look,  thanks for the link.

BTW,  this is only the latest example of stuff I bump into in here where I 
have no idea what the heck you guys are talking about,  but I'm working on 
fixing that!	:-)