MOTM

I would tack on a few switches.  I have no idea what I would do with them,
but just something that toggled the output from input A to input B.  Perhaps
more than one ribbon.

I think I would leave off the CV mixer and inverters... those sound like
wall territory.  Keep the attenuators, though.

But I still dream about that guitaresque controller.  And the guys who built
the lightwave pickup system made a press release announcing that they would
sell the pickups by themselves(!), optionally with a MIDI converter...  This
means that if anyone were rich enough, they wouldn't have to buy a full
guitar to play with the system as an alternative controller...

--PBr

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	improv@... [SMTP:improv@...]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:54 AM
> To:	motm@egroups.com
> Subject:	Re: [motm] How useful in a MOTM system might this be ?
> 
> >In a message dated 8/9/00 3:04:24 PM, improv@... writes:
> >
> ><< When the Lag Processor and Mixer are done, there won't be any
> functions in
> >the CP251 that couldn't be done w/MOTM modules. >>
> >
> >I've contemplated getting one for a small live-performance rig, but I
> agree
> >that in the "big rack" it won't add much to the party.
> >
> This brings up something I've been putting a fair amount of thought (but
> as
> yet, not much action) into: a modular controller surface. I'm thinking
> about a slant-faced cabinet about the size of a small MIDI keyboard. On
> the
> surface would be (and this is blue sky mode here, haven't been worried
> about reality yet) like, 4 joysticks, ~8 trigger buttons, a ribbon
> controller, a step sequencer, an input for a Yamaha breath controller, and
> maybe a few utility modules, like a CV mixer, inverters, attenuators, etc.
> Basically everything but a keyboard! My question to the geniuses of this
> list is, if you were building such a thing, what would you include? What
> would you leave out?
>