MOTM

sounds a bit like the old Aries system doesnt it ?
Jim

alt-mode wrote:

> > 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?
> >
> All good ideas Dave.  You might look into something like the EML 300 for more ideas.
>  One of the interesting elements was a bank of 16 knobs with 16 buttons.  You would
> set voltages on the 16 knobs and select the active voltage with one of the buttons.
>
> You can also go nuts with the step sequencer stuff so might want to make that a
> different box.
>
> The one gesture piece that would be nice on such a box is a pressure sensitive X-Y
> pad - like a Korg Kaos Pad or the rumored controller on the BigBriar monosynth.
>
>     Eric
>
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