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Right, there's that--but I want a voltage controller, not MIDI stuff. In the
last few months, I've gotten away from MIDI to a large extent--I still use
MIDI clock out of necessity, but that's about it. I sequence CVs, gates and
triggers mostly from a 303, a 606 and a FR-777. I'd like to keep it this way
if possible.

My style of writing music is performance-based. In fact, I rarely multitrack
anymore, instead rehearsing what I'm going to do to the point where I can
play it live to 2 tracks (stereo). I appreciate MIDI for what it is, but I
felt that it was a poor place whence to discover electronic music
composition techniques. I'm more enamored with the "old" stuff. When I use
the modular while recording, I have my hands all over the place, turning
knobs, repatching, etc. I really need to buy a couple of the dual VC routers
to help with the repatching business, but I'd love to basically pull some of
those knobs together into a central location, i.e. this "box."

So, my question still stands. Most importantly, is this a big deal to build?
Am I not just adjusting voltages using a wide range of variable resistors?
Am I an idiot (wait, don't answer that one)?

David.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 3:29 PM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Controllers for modulars
>
>
> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
> You can get this indirectly with a Kenton Control Freak + a MIDI-to-CV
> converter. 8 sliders, 8 switches,
> all assignable.
>
> Paul S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Bivins <dbivins@...>
> To: MOTM <motm@onelist.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:19 PM
> Subject: [motm] Controllers for modulars
>
>
> > From: "David Bivins" <dbivins@...>
> >
> > It's been a while since anyone's mentioned Tannerins, ribbon
> controllers,
> > etc. I fantasize about a knob/slider/whatever box that I can use with my
> > modular. Basically it would be a box with some big, weighted knobs (like
> the
> > size of the rotary encoder on the Moog Source), some sliders, some
> buttons,
> > two or three joysticks, etc. and a bunch of CV and gate outputs on the
> back
> > for interfacing to the modular.
> >
> > 1) Is anything like this available?
> > 2) Correct me if I'm wrong (like *that's* never happened on this list),
> but
> > wouldn't such a controller be relatively easy to build given
> that I'm not
> > trying to scale or anything so precise?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David (who really should be working)
> >
> > >
>
>