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Subject: Re: [motm] Controller Module Brainstorming

From: Chad Conger <lordgrimley@...>
Date: 2000-03-27

> Another concept would be a for a controller module to make use of
> all five
> fingers of the hand. Such a module might be a four-space module
> with small
> sloping indentations and five small ribbon controllers for the hand,
> laid
> out in a hand shape. Pure manual control! [Oh, and a big knob in
> the
> center of the thing which rotates with the palm, for volume control
> or
> something. Or maybe the whole assembly with the five controllers
> could be
> mounted in a circular housing which rotates by wrist control. That
> is
> probably going overboard].

I like that..

About a year ago, I saw a guy on a talk show who had nails coming out of
his head, that were surgically implanted into his scalp. Since then, I
have quietly fantasized about the prospects of surgically implanting
various types of CV controllers directly into body parts. Need a good
LFO? Move your head around in a lifelike manner... More jacks? Wire up
your patchbay fore-arm. I think your vision of total hand control goes
one step in the direction I would love to go with modular. But that is
probably the reason it's best for me to keep my thoughts of a full
modular body suit to myself... (Think of Darth Vader with VCO's...)

Chad.