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I wonder if a little touchplate controller would be a good tryout for
a fiberglass faceplate 1200-series module?  I presume that the
touchplates themselves could just be etched onto the surface of the
board?  Maybe something 2 x the width of the boogie filter and borg
filter modules with say 8 or 10 plates, each with one or 2 voltage
level pots above it, an out for each pot, and a gate out. Switchable
between triggered by touching one of the plates, or steppable with a
trigger pulse input, so you can use it as a sequencer, maybe? A couple
of attenuators or a couple of basic linear VCAs at the top would be
cool, maybe a variable voltage out with a pot as a performance
control,  Maybe even a slightly bigger version with a built-in
joystick if yer feeling really fancy.

I was playing with the sequantiser the other night - I routed the
unquantised out to one of the scale tables of a waveform city, via the
attenuator of a Blacet mult/att module (this is such a handly little
module, it actually makes a good performance control, depending on
what you route through it - I have one next to the joystick for this)
- I had a lot of fun altering the level of the sequencer signal going
to the quantiser,  I got sequences that worked pretty well with
different chords, but homing in on them with the attenuator pot could
be tricky - something like the touchplate described above would have
made it easier & even more enjoyable.  I'd buy such a piece
immediately, and use it loads if you were to make one, Grant.

On 3/18/07, Grant Richter <grichter@asapnet.net> wrote:
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> I don't know if anyone remembers the "crop circles" keyboard that Don Buchla made.
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>  From the one picture I have seen of it, it looks like it was designed for quradraphonic
>  panning. It was arranged in a circle with 4 quadrants of "woven" traces. It looked like each