joystick mechanics

[Tony Clark]

> > there is a mechanical way(?differential gears) to convert
> > a joystick motion to two separate rotary motions.... so that
> > someone with a joystick can use any pots they want....
> 
> In the good old days you had the cheapo sealed unit joystick as
> found on most synths (Korg DW-8000 for example) or sold with
> computers such as the Tandy Color Computer, and the higher quality
> computer analog joysticks that used 2 pots (like the metal joystick i
> had for the Apple II).

   Yeah, I was going to suggest that someone should go out and buy up all 
of the old Apple and Commodore joysticks.  :)  Those things are just 
about as big as you'd really want them for synth work.
   You could probably find a zillion of them at those computer swap 
meets.

   Tony

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