Project thoughts

[Tommy Killander]

Mark Pulver wrote:
> 
> I have a couple of ideas, and no knowledge in how to build it... So I
> thought I'd toss them up here and get a feeling for the complexity.
> 
> I have no idea on the practicality nor marketability of these ideas, but
> I've been kicked before. As such... "These ideas are Copyright 1997 by Mark
> Pulver, mpulver at wwa.com"
> 
> Anyway...
> 
> On another list, I was in the middle of a battle about a rack or keyboard
> version of a synth. The point that people kept bringing up about getting
> the key version is that the expression controls were cool.
> 
> Well... I eventually found myself babbling out an idea about how, given the
> expression that's capable with a joystick, no one has done a standalone
> MIDI version of one. 2 or 3 axis, each axis assignable to a controller
> value with min and max values including negative. MIDI-IN, OUT and THRU so
> that you could merge in the stick data with anything else on the wire.
> 

Reminds me of my first homemade MIDI motherkeyboard. The beast wasn't a total 
technical success, but it did have a couple of cool features.

A MIDI merge that really worked and a couple of joysticks and fader pots that
transmitted Continous Controller messages. The update rate changed
with the available MIDI bandwidth (you'll never hog the MIDI bus with
controller messages since MIDI clock and Note On/Off have send priority).

When I hooked up this mother(keyboard) to my Obiee Matrix-6, great things
happened!
It brings you close to the tone control that a guitarist experiences...

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