keyboard/sequencer/thingie hybrid

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>Was driving back home tonight listening to music, when I started thinking 
>about a possible DIY project. You see, if you're anything like me, you don't 
>have the skills to play a melody over and over again on a piano, while 
>keeping any decent sort of rhythm, wouldn't it be great to have some way of 
>hooking up a sequencer to your keyboard to do that work for you. What I 
>mean, would be designing a c/v keyboard with complete circuitry, except for 
>the keys missing. In place of the keys, there would be a jack to accept 
>incoming signals from the sequencer. Obviously, there would need to be some 
>method of converting the c/v signals from the sequencer to trigger a switch 
>to make the connection with the bus. I'm sure that someone has come out with 
>something wold assume that someone has created something (non-digital) to 
>act in this same manner (using a sequencer to create beats, but having a 
>full range of notes to choose from), but I have no clue where to look for 
>one. Anyone with info or input, please let me know.

Before you get too deep into this, you might see if you can find any info on
the  Serge (AKA Sound Transform Systems) Touch Key-board / Sequencer.

It's got this touch-sensitive keypad, and a 3 or 4 channel analog sequencer,
with some really crazy control between both of them.  You can have a 4-CV
per key controller, or run it as a regular sequencer, or completely warp
everything out buy having sequence pieces that are mutated by the keys
you're touching.  It's very interactive, and fairly intuitive after a little
while.

They also have a CV quantizer module, so you don't have to tune every note
you're trying to play.

I can't seem to find anything on the web, though...

Byron Jacquot