MOTM

In a message dated 3/16/2000 6:22:36 AM, davevosh@... writes:

<< the single thing i hate the most about my doepfers  vco`s are the "range" 
( octave) switches. a stable, wide range vco is limited  by their addition, 
IMHO. yes, they make conventional pitch / note music easier but the whole 
idea of voltage control is freedom. >>

AGREED!  The octave switching should be on the controller-end, not at the 
VCO.  That way us "alternative controller" guys who don't think along the 
lines of keyboards aren't limited.

Somewhere along the line somebody made a compromise choice and decided to use 
a keyboard to control a synthesizer.  But a synthesizer inherently is not a 
keyboard instrument.  If you keep thinking along the keyboard paradigm you 
end up where MIDI is at, where it is very difficult to continuously play 
"between the keys".  This is very limiting and instead of expanding the 
electronic music universe, attempts to constrain it.

Ok, rant off.

Ivan