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Subject: RE: Controllers for modulars

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...
Date: 1999-11-29

Kurzweil has a new fancy ribbon controller programmable out the wazoo. Mark
P., chime in here with the URL!

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bivins [mailto:dbivins@...]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:19 PM
> To: MOTM
> Subject: [motm] Controllers for modulars
>
>
> From: "David Bivins" <dbivins@...>
>
> It's been a while since anyone's mentioned Tannerins, ribbon controllers,
> etc. I fantasize about a knob/slider/whatever box that I can use with my
> modular. Basically it would be a box with some big, weighted
> knobs (like the
> size of the rotary encoder on the Moog Source), some sliders,
> some buttons,
> two or three joysticks, etc. and a bunch of CV and gate outputs
> on the back
> for interfacing to the modular.
>
> 1) Is anything like this available?
> 2) Correct me if I'm wrong (like ∗that's∗ never happened on this
> list), but
> wouldn't such a controller be relatively easy to build given that I'm not
> trying to scale or anything so precise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David (who really should be working)
>
> >