Ribbon controllers (Was: Re: [sdiy] DIY slide-bars)

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Wood" <buck75 at easydatamusic.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] DIY slide-bars
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:47:18 -0500
Message-ID: <001c01c473e8$9d91ee10$7276b118 at easy1d9f2b4112>

> do you mean a ribbon controller?

Yes! I still have a few synapses to connect better it seems. Thanks for
pointing this out!

> if so check this out
> http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/ribbon/ribbon.htm .

This looks promesing!

Thanks!

Any other info people?

Cheers,
Magnus

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at bredband.net>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:17 AM
> Subject: [sdiy] DIY slide-bars
> 
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > As I have been looking more and more on the 70thies stuff I see one thing
> that
> > I kind of would like to see more off, or at least be able to test - the
> slide
> > bar. They existed as add-ons to Moog Modular, MiniMoog and where there on
> the
> > Yamaha monsters GX-1 and CS-80 to mention a few cases.
> >
> > Now comes the questions I would like to know the answers to:
> >
> > 1) How did these classic slide bars work? What materials etc. was there?
> >
> > 2) How could one make one today? I am looking for a fairly stable design,
> so
> >    antistatic foam is out, OK?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Magnus
> >
>