Analogue-sequencer

> well, you wouldn't want the ones they used in the ion, as 
> they tend to go
> bad.

I thought they had fixed some pot problems with a firmware update ?
Sounds vaguely familiar...

> but seriously, this is a good idea... can you get 360 
> pots with LED
> rings?

LED rings aren't part of the pot or encoder as far as I'm aware.
You just feed the shaft of the encoder through a hole in a board with a ring
of standard LEDs around it.
The Nord Modular G2 appears to use the same Spectrol encoders I've been
playing with.
If only they'd used PLED displays. Those LCDs are so ugly ;-)

I'm not so sure about LED rings only though - they are kind of limited in
the resolution they can display.
I was thinking of maybe 3 digits of 5x7 LED matrix next to each
encoder/endless pot, that could show numeric and note values.
Pricey though...
The alternative would be a PLED display for each group of 4 pots/encoders.
Or maybe just finding a cheap way to motorise Alpha pots.

Cheers,
Colin f