MOTM

I disagree slightly with Stooge Barlow on a couple of points.

1. The Moog ribbon controllers have two narrow metal bands that run 
the length of the ribbon, slightly to one side. You bridge the gap 
between the tracks anywhere along its length to generate a gate. I 
like the option of generating gates manually instead of 
automatically. Maybe Barlow and I could compromise and have a mode 
switch that handles both.

2. The single most important useability feature would be to adopt the 
Yamaha convention of having the zero point be where you first put 
your finger down. That way you can touch down anywhere on the ribbon 
and do finger vibrato, or smooth sweeps away from the current control 
voltage. You could have another mode switch that allows it to operate 
the other way as well.

Moe

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I also think gate and trigger should be generated with each touch of \
the ribbon. 

Two things which I'd add as ideas are: 1) a rotary (Paul gasps) range 
switch to reduce the range to as little as one octave. 2) a scale 
switch to cause the mid point of the ribbon to generate zero volts 
with the right side positive, and the left side negative.
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