200e

thanks a lot, ezra, very exhaustive



--- In 200e@yahoogroups.com, ezra buchla <ezra.buchla@...> wrote:
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> i think i made a couple mistakes there. like not all keys are
> pressure-sensitive (the toggle keys are excluded, as in the Thunder.)
> 
> and i realized maybe a couple examples are in order:
> 
> 1) you can take a range of keys and assign arbitrary output voltages to each
> one, all of which come out of a single jack (a "keyboard.")
> 
> 2) among those keys you could have the last one you touched always send its
> location out of another jack (each key in the "keyboard" operates the same
> "fader.")
> 
> 3) you could make the pressure of each key, or arbitrary subgroup of keys,
> go to a totally different parameter via a different jack (up to 9
> independently.)
> 
> 4) on top of the universal fader assignment, you could have 3 more fader
> outputs that are simultaneously operated by 3 subgroups of the main group of
> keys, which subgroups need not be mutually exclusive, nor exclusive with the
> subgroups of 4).
> 
> 5) you could have a single key in any of these groups trigger a single
> pulse, or toggle it.
> 
> 6) you could do 1)-5) at the same time.
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM, ezra buchla <ezra.buchla@...> wrote:
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> >
> >> I want to ask you some clarifications on how the 222e interface works in
> >> relation to the touch surface: why are there 27 keys and 30 outputs, which
> >> are grouped in different types? and what labels like "radio out", "R and S",
> >> "location/pressure/impact" exactly mean?
> >>
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> > all keys sense impact velocity as well as continuous pressure; most have
> > location as well; each can be assigned an arbitrary static output voltage -
> > in total, far too many input parameters to be independently routed to
> > outputs.
> >
> > instead there is a reasonably large space of outputs that can be mapped to
> > inputs more or less at the user's discretion.
> >
> > keys can be divided into potentially overlapping "groups" of up to 25 keys.
> > each group can have a custom routing of parameters (pulse, impact, pressure,
> > location, and fixed assignable per-key voltages) to output jacks (4 per
> > group.)
> >
> > there are 4 groups with 4 outputs each; another 5 groups have only a single
> > pulse output each, another 5 groups have only a single voltage output each.
> >
> > there are some interesting options for polyphony and stealing, as partially
> > implied by the term "radio group."
> >
> > the "R" and "S" keys are two-dimensional location pads with hardwired X/Y
> > outputs. there are similar hardwired outputs for the infrared ring
> > locations.
> >
> > that's it!
> >
> >>
> >> next, I'd like to have some comments on 297's envelope follower: is it
> >> suitable to create amplitude-dipendent effects like the 227e's one?
> >>
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> > yes, but it does not have a preamp, nor any kind of level control, and so
> > its behavior is rather more circumscribed.
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