[sdiy] Control Interfaces (was Wakeman)

[jbv]

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> >Have you seen the Studer Vista 7 mixing console, using 'Vistonics'.
> >Now that's a pretty cool user interface,  quite literally TFT with knobs
> >on. And it seems to work well too.
> >
> >http://www.studer.at/pages/news_main.html
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> This seems to be a realization of something I've wanted to see ever since
> the early 1980's. In my head, I've had this vision of a control surface
> that would change the labeling for all the controls, depending on which
> mode they were in. I thought a touch screen would be pretty cool, but this
> looks even better--as long as you don't want to change the number and
> placement of the controls dynamically. I guess you would still need a touch
> screen and "virtual" knobs to do that.
>

Well, I might be considered as rude again, but I'm really
amazed (and somehow disapointed as well) to see you
guys still fascinated by knobs, either real or "virtual" ones...

Is there any chance to forget that kind of controls & displays
for a moment and start brainstorming on some new / unusual
ways of generating sounds & musical patterns ?
Yes, I know we aren't Studer nor the MIT, but so many
sophisticated tools are available to DIYers these days that
it would be a pity if we couldn't come up with at least
one exciting idea...

JB