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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Re: Doepfer touch plate keyboard option

2008-01-15 by Frequency Divider

Hi Herman,

Seems like we are both into getting out of the same old boring 12 tone grid

:-)

I've been trying for more than a year now to advocate a module with more 
adventurous tuning capabilities, because right now there is no user 
friendly way to do something like say a gamelan tuning on the A-100

Anton

> That actually sounds pretty cool too!!
> I'm not so much into equal 12 tone controllers
> right now anyway.
> 
>  >In this respect,
>  > wouldn't it be more useful/interseting to have a simple set of touch
>  > plates (maybe 10 in a desktop version or maybe 5 in a module
>  > version??) that can be tuned to individual intervals rather than
>  > another 1v/octave keyboard? (Kind of like the original TKB concept
>  > but without all of the individual CV outs and sequencing ie: perhaps
>  > just 3 voltage outputs: a main plate cv, a pressure CV and a gate
>  > voltage). Maybe the module could be equipped with a USB socket (as
>  > I believe someone else has suggested)instead of the individual 1/8"
>  > jacks and make use of the existing Doepfer A-100 ribbon controller
>  > interface (a-198)?
> 
> 
> 
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