My Ultimate Controller

[Jack Deckard]

I've been wanting to talk about this for awhile to anyone. No one makes a EM controller 
that satisfies me, so let me tell you about my ultimate controller.

First off I want the normal velocity and channel pressure sensitivity on a 4 octave 
keyboard with pitch and modulation wheels. Put about 8 to 12 knobs across the top, and a 
long ribbon just below those that can be assigned to send any controller messages. I'd 
love another Prophecy Log controller if I could get one also.

Now the difference between this and any other controller is that it is programable. The 
unit is based on a very common cheep (80386 or 680xx) processor. The ROM code scans the 
physical controllers and writes them to a table. Another loop reads the table and writes 
the info out to two MIDI ports. Under basic operation this is all it does. But you have a
cheep 3 1/2 disk drive that allows the user to boot up more complicated operations. The 
user is allowed to write code that will make the keyboard act as an arpeggiator, 
sequencer, algorythmic comp generator, different assignment algorythms, or whatever. A 
small keypad with 24 or so keys sits at the top right.

In the heyday of analog we had two of these (EMU and PAIA). I think it's time to bring it
back and do it right. Yes we kinda got this with computers, but you all know what a 
hassel the computer is to lug around (and all that unnessary processing delay).
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	- Jack Deckard

Life Is Complex - It Has A Real (what I got) And An Imaginary Part (see above)