This sounds like a great controller panel! I'd call it the Kitchen Sync. I'm
not sure what you mean by a step sequencer (possibly no CV out, just the
individual stages would become active?), but I'd somewhat advise against
putting a row of pots quite close to a controller surface (like a ribbon, or
a bunch of joysticks) since a slip of the hand could easily tweak one of
those CV pots. This is especially true with the large MOTM style pots.
Are you thinking of a full length ribbon, or one of those mini ribbons (like
those used for pitch benders)?
This might be a good project for those LMB Keyboarder style cabinets. Let us
know how this develops!
JB
In a message dated 8/10/2000 10:46:50 AM,
improv@... writes:
>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?