200e

On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:57 AM, amnesia wrote:

> There are a few of us sitting on the fence about the 222e. I love the
> rings and what it can do, but i am still worried that the touch panel
> will only lead me to using it musically, another person I know is
> worried that the rings arent what he needs and therefore the keyboard
> will only be used wasting half of his purchase.I know some people will
> say buy a Thunder, but the thing I do like about the 222e is that its
> part of the 200e system.
>
> From the vids i have seen there is nothing non musical about the
> touchplate, i am going by Alessandros vids and Yasi' NAMM vid, so I  
> can
> only assume that you have to set up each touch pad as a "note"? then  
> you
> can make other pads faders of add filter etc..
>
> Could someone please do a quick vid to help us poor saps on the other
> parts of the world see what is possible. I so wish I could try  
> before I buy.

hey ross,

i can answer some of these questions but i don't currently have access  
to a video camera (i plan on getting one soon).

1) almost every touchplate can be individually set to at least one  
stored voltage in .01 volt increments. it can be musical (really easy  
with the 1.2v/oct tuning), it can be non-musical, it can just be  
binary. what the 222e gives you that the thunder won't is continuous  
voltages for all outputs (cv1/cv2/location/pressure/velocity). since  
the thunder is a midi controller everything is stepped to 127 values.

2) there's no reason you need to use the touchplates as a keyboard.  
with the location outputs you can user it as a bunch of sliders (good  
for tuning the 291e or moving sound around 2 dimensions in a 227e).  
you can put a 250e in strobe or continuous mode and tune each key to a  
sequencer step. you can trigger 281e cycles. you can use each of the  
main keys cv1/cv2 outputs as caveman presets for some other module.  
the possibilities are pretty much unlimited.

3) the rings are fun. they're hard (not theremin hard but not that  
much easier) but if you use a 250e as a quantizer it's easy to play  
melodies. it's also just fun to wave your hands in the air and control  
filter frequencies.

so if you make a bit more specific request i'd be glad to record a  
demo as soon as i can get access to a camera.

thanks,

-jon
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different  
degrees
of difference and no difference."
- James, William. "Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide." Mind. 1882;  
Vol 7.