[sdiy] Ensoniq patent, was: distance meter for keyboard, was: Where to get special white keys?

[cheater cheater]

come on, 100 keys * 3 dollars = 300 dollars

certainly not a big amount by the standard of making the best keyboard
in the universe

and not a big one by the standard of making a *good* keyboard

A Yamaha cs-80 goes for 8000 dollars, that's over 20 times more

many people who moved out of their parents' houses make more than 300
dollars in 2 days

Not everything has to be a cheap shitty Behringer/Tapco/M-Audio

I gladly paid 850 GBP for my SQ-80

D.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Ingo Debus <igg.debus at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Am 01.03.2009 um 21:00 schrieb cheater cheater:
>
>> OK, I've done a search in online patents databases and couldn't find
>> the patent for ensoniq's hall sensor stuff..
>
> Hmmmm, did Ensoniq use Hall sensors for aftertouch at all? I seem to
> remember it was something different. Rainer?
>
> A linear Hall sensor costs about 1$ (I think). Add the cost for a small
> magnet. For poly aftertouch this would increase the cost of a keyboard
> significantly.
>
> Ingo
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