I have a friend in Japan who worked at Namco and left about 6 months ago.
While there he had the technicians modify an N64 MoBo to allow the
controller to control MIDI signals in a wide variety of manners. The MoBo
also does some LED trickery. Very impressive. And very inspiring. I snuck
2 pictures of the MoBo, but haven't scanned them yet. If anyone is
interesting, I will move that up on my priority list.
For those that are into "new" forms of music, the name of the band is
Qypthone. My friend is the leader of the band in Tokyo and they are about
to release their 3rd album on Happiness Records
(http://www.happiness-records.com). Right after that, they will sign with
Toshiba-EMI. Their style is known as Shibuya-kei. Other artists operating
in a similar style are: Pizzicato 5, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Kahimi
Karie, Arling and Cameron, DJ Dimitri from Paris, Laila France, Takako
Minekawa, Cornelius and Towa Tei. Some closely related bands are
Combustible Edison (now defunct), Supreme Beings of Leisure, Momus,
Stereolab, High Llamas, Clinton, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Funki Porcini
and more...
And you HAVE heard some of this music and enjoyed it. You should didn't
know what you were listening to.
Cheers,
Shemp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ivancu@... [mailto:ivancu@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 4:38 PM
> To: motm@egroups.com
> Subject: [motm] Joysticks - ideas
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> From the Doepfer website:
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> "A-17? Joy-Stick-Controller: 1 or 2 joy-sticks for CV generation, about
> 120.-...200.- DM (as module, i.e. about 60.- ...100.- US$ ) or
> 200.- to 300.-
> DM (as external box, about 100.- ... 150.- US$), we are still locking for
> suitable joy-sticks but we have ordered samples from ALPS and
> hope that these
> will be suitable for the joy-stick module. Additional we check at
> the moment
> if we could "abuse" the control unit of the Nintendo 64 as a CV/Gate/MIDI
> controller. "
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> Two interesting things from this (which they have been talking about for
> ages): That Alps makes joysticks and the concept of using a Ninetendo
> controller.
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> Ivan
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