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RE: [Doepfer_a100] Module Ideas: Universal "breakout box"

2006-05-10 by Bakis Sirros

hello zoran,
that sounds very interesting too.
dieter?
regards,
Bakis.



--- Zoran Bosnjak <dj_allin@hotmail.com> wrote:

> OK, how about this sci-fi idea: you buy module, and
> patch it into the large 
> button-based matrix (like EMS AKS, but buttons
> instead of pins.) You label 
> rows and columns yourself. It is like large DIY
> matrix panel.
> 
> And style of the buttons? Well, if engaged, they
> should be lit, like those 
> old style elevator keys.
> 
> Regards, and don't take this too seriously,
> 
> Zoran
> 
> >From: "mrb" <boredom_cz@yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> >To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [Doepfer_a100] Module Ideas: Universal
> "breakout box"
> >Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:48:06 -0000
> >
> >Hey everyone:
> >
> >This may be a *bit* hard to explain, but it's been
> kicking around in
> >my head for ages, and I planned to manufacture and
> get rich off it
> >(snicker) but instead, i'll share it and see if
> anyone else thinks
> >it's viable!
> >
> >The Universal Breakout Box module would be a
> control interface for a
> >"knob box" like the Doepfer Pocket controller, to
> solve the problem
> >many people like me have with the Doepfer: when
> it's VERY patchy, it's
> >hard to get in there and turn knobs on the fly.
> >
> >The module part of the "system" would be a single
> wide (4 "channels")
> >or double wide (8 "channels") where each "channel"
> would consist of an
> >input jack, an attenuator knob, and an output jack.
>  Any signal path
> >you would like to attenuate manually could be
> "finely" attenuated with
> >the knob on the panel, and then "coarsely"
> attenuated with the knob on
> >the breakout box, which would connect to the panel
> by a cable (serial?).
> >
> >This completely passive system (although gain
> stages, buffers, etc.
> >would be a cool addition) would allow you to have a
> tabletop box for
> >controlling any parameter of your synth in real
> time.  The knob of
> >each channel would be "between" the input and
> output, allowing you to
> >diversely control anything without having to reach
> in there, possibly
> >knock something out, etc.
> >
> >This makin sense?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


Bakis Sirros - Parallel Worlds
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