MOTM

The venerable EMS VCS3 has a horizontally mounted, non-centered joystick.  I
think that horizontally mounted non-centered joysticks are just as, if not
more useful, than centered joysticks.  Centered joysticks are good for
performance controls where you want to influence the sound quickly and
return while the non-centered joysticks are great for tweaking multiple
parameters together and leaving them.  For a simple example, I'd love to put
the cutoff and resonance of the upcoming MOTM-440 VCF on two separate axes
of a non-centered joystick; sweep and growl city!

I will confess that I'm not much of a DIY guy.  Yes, that means I buy all my
MOTM modules assembled.  [...insert view of a MOTM anonymous meeting where
Eric stands up and says "My name is Eric and I don't build my own modules."
and the group replies "Hi Eric"....]  I would really like to find an
assembled set of 2-4 joysticks to add to my system (centered and
non-centered would be great but I'd settle for just non-centered).  Wiard
won't sell his controllers outside of a full system.  Assembling a bunch of
CatSticks together is a bit out of the question.  I guess I could get some
of the Analogue Solutions modules but they seem a bit flimsy for something
that is going to take more physical abuse as a controller.  Sigh, what's a
joystick junkie to do?

	Eric

> I am kind of thinking the non-centering type might not work 
> so hot on a
> horizontal panel.  I guess it would if the tension was 
> adjusted right.  I'm
> not sure how useful mine will be.  However, I have the parts 
> and the desire
> to learn, so I guess I will build it and then see if: