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Subject: Re: [motm] Back to the UTILITY Forum

From: improv@...
Date: 2000-11-22

>Honestly, the joystick on the end of a cord seems a bit of a waste
>to me (or for me). I use a Kenton pro2000 for MIDI to CV. I
>can assign the joystick on my keyboard to generate CVs. So, I
>have the remote joystick., Put, from a "how used and usefulness"
>point of view, I woudl appreciate hearing what others have to say
>about the on panel vs. on the end of a cord thing.

I view it this way: For $1.79 (the price of the PC Jr. when I got them) + 1
1u panel + a bunch of jacks, I was able to build a quick and dirty and
surprisingly useful Joystick/Gate controller. In the long run, I'd probably
want a panel-mount, high quality joystick, but until then, I'm having goofy
fun with what I got (Feels like playing an Atari!)

>LH: This is something else I have been interested in. One of my thoughts
>was that a joystick panel could have have a pedal input jack that would
>"take over" one of the joystick axis voltages when plugged in. You
>could have two pedal inputs. You could use both agt once, or just one
>and have one axis of control remaining on the joystick. Does that
>sound appealing as a "add on" feature to joystick panel?

This does sound like a cool feature.

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