> From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:25:22 -0000
>
> I mean really, how far can you take the concept of a keyboard
> activated/pinch roller moving a tape across a head?
With some imagination, creativity, design and engineering, there a lot
you can do...
> Unfortunately, and this is just my opinion, nowadays there
> probably aren't a whole lot of folks who give a rat's ass about a
> new machine like this...just the hard core "enlightened" few like
> those here who know. Is Joe Public really going to care whether
> or not Fiona Apple is using samples or an M4000? Will any amount
> of technical improvements or innovation talk Mike Pinder out of
> using samples?
You have a point in the sense that today's musical instrument market
has pretty much reduced a keyboard instrument to a plastic-box-with-a-
computer-inside". The products they're delivering aren't actually
Musical Instruments, and as such it's really hard to find any great
performances on them.
Which leaves the market for real keyboard Musical Instruments wide
open. There's actually a ton of opportunity here.
-- Don
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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...http://www.till.com