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Subject: Re: [motm] oddball joystick

From: sikorsky <vulture.squadron@...>
Date: 2000-11-23

on 23/11/00 20:49, norman fay at NFAY@... wrote:

> Related to the joystick thread, I helped a friend out w/an interview
> for "Sound on Sound" magazine a few years ago, (it was with a genius
> designer/constructor fellow called Ron Berry - he had build a physical
> modelling synthesiser in the analogue modular domain - he did this YEARS
> ago - impressive, eh?) anyway, his keyboard controller had a very cool
> joystick - it had a ∗knob∗ on the top, with a shaft running down to a
> pot underneath it! Of course I asked where he's got it from, but it
> turned out he'd made it himself. ultra-hardcore constructors take note
> - if you are able to do this, you will have a ∗three-axis∗ controller,
> which also looks great! (you will also have at least 1 customer if you
> decide to produce them ;) )

hello all,

i've had my eye on a gorgeous three axis joystick in the Farnell catalogue,
by CH Products, order code M31L081P-50 (farnell - 917576) loverley...

...oh and the price ?

NINETYFIVEBLEEDINQUID (excluding 17.5% sales tax)

oh well
cheers
paul b