PLAN B analog blog

Heh, fair enough, mainly just a shout out about getting the
joystick/pot/socket thing on the panel RIGHT, which no-body else has
done IIRC.  I guess the main use for a simple/ute joystick module
would be for those who wanted to use 2, a la the orig. Wiard control
panel or that Buchla thing with the joysticks resting on lightbulbs
that there was some discussion of on AH a few years ago.
Personally speaking, one joystick works for me, use it as a perf
controller with the right hand, adjust knobs/switches/sliders with the
left.

Actually, the joystick isn't really my favourite controller (though
they are a lot of fun), pressure sensor does it for me.  If someone
made a little panel with 3 little pressure plates, positioned in such
a way that your index, middle and ring fingers fell easily onto them,
each with a CV out and a little attenuator, that would be such a great
thing to combine with a keyboard or a ribbon controller.
>
>  The risk of releasing 'dumbed down' versions of others already in the
>  product line is they potentially obsolete the more complex version.
>  This was THE single biggest mistake M&K made (both Sam and I used to
>  work there, we saw the result). They had in some instances five
>  products which performed almost identically and designed for the same
>  usage.  Instead of having big sales for one, they had small sales for
>  five, plus all the stocking, ordering and manufacturing
>  complexities that comes with five products v. just one.
>
>  - P
>