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Subject: Re: [motm] How useful in a MOTM system might this be ?

From: improv@...
Date: 2000-08-10

>In a message dated 8/9/00 3:04:24 PM, improv@... writes:
>
><< When the Lag Processor and Mixer are done, there won't be any functions in
>the CP251 that couldn't be done w/MOTM modules. >>
>
>I've contemplated getting one for a small live-performance rig, but I agree
>that in the "big rack" it won't add much to the party.
>
This brings up something I've been putting a fair amount of thought (but as
yet, not much action) into: a modular controller surface. I'm thinking
about a slant-faced cabinet about the size of a small MIDI keyboard. On the
surface would be (and this is blue sky mode here, haven't been worried
about reality yet) like, 4 joysticks, ~8 trigger buttons, a ribbon
controller, a step sequencer, an input for a Yamaha breath controller, and
maybe a few utility modules, like a CV mixer, inverters, attenuators, etc.
Basically everything but a keyboard! My question to the geniuses of this
list is, if you were building such a thing, what would you include? What
would you leave out?

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