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Re: [200e] Buchla Thunder II AT NAMM?

2006-01-20 by JB

I want to see it! Please someone at NAMM, take a photo and upload to the group!

johan

2006/1/20, Peter Grenader <peter@buzzclick-music.com>:
> Yeah - its f'n outrageous.  Now idea of price yet - says Don.  But it have
> both pressure and vertical position sensitivity like the Continuim
> controller.  The keys are laid out in the "Klingon battleship" format like
> the first Thunder, yet it's a 200e module - it mounts into a boat and not a
> stand alone like T 1.
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> It's a capacitance keyboard like all the others.  White keys with laminate
> over them, not metal keys.  Over them, which makes the key outline is a
> final laminated layer which is silver colored and pretty much matched the
> metal of the other faceplates.  Sounds hokey?  It's not.  It's very clean,
> very sexy, looks great in the unit, is very easy to work with.
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> I can't go into all that much detail right now - I've got to get to Namm
> myself, but along with the controller panel, there's a separate controller
> module  with it with many many outputs - the keys and the X/Y pads and
> there's about an inch square cutout on this external module which exposes a
> sensor to use Lightning type rings (different types - different sensing
> capabilities, all worn on your finger like your wedding ring - as explained
> by Yazi) that behave like the Lighning wands.
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> There's other comments I could make, but they are speculative - I haven't
> asked the right questions so I'll wait until I do that to make any more
> assertions about the system - and I'll post again.
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> The thing is amazing.
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>  mike_synth wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any info on what this is?
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