DX7 controls.

[Tony Karavidas]

John Speth wrote:
> 
> I think the plain and simple reason for machines not having mucho
> knobs is pure economics.  All that panel hardware drives up the cost
> of the product tremendously in parts cost, assembly, service, and
> reliability.  That all costs money.  Few people would buy a hardware
> programmer that costs more than what it needs to program.
> 
> But I DO agree with you.  I think a good middle ground can be achieved
> in the design of a hardware programmer.  My vision is a device that
> you connect to your PC.  The device has maybe 20 knobs with an LCD
> display beneath each knob.  On the PC is a program running that
> interfaces to the 20 knob programmer (using MIDI maybe) and also to
> the synth you want to program (also using MIDI).  The PC program would
> allow you configure the programmer and assign the knobs to 20
> parameters that you'd want to edit at that time.  The LCDs would
> display the name of the parameters that the knob controls.  It's
> flexible in that it could be used for any synth with sysex editing.
> All you'd need to change is the PC program.
> 
> John Speth
> johns at oei.com



Sounds a lot like the Peavey 1600.


Tony Karavidas
Encore Electronics
http://pwp.value.net/encore/