> 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?
>
All good ideas Dave. You might look into something like the EML 300 for more ideas.
One of the interesting elements was a bank of 16 knobs with 16 buttons. You would
set voltages on the 16 knobs and select the active voltage with one of the buttons.
You can also go nuts with the step sequencer stuff so might want to make that a
different box.
The one gesture piece that would be nice on such a box is a pressure sensitive X-Y
pad - like a Korg Kaos Pad or the rumored controller on the BigBriar monosynth.
Eric
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