Wiardgroup

hiya grant & co.

i've been lurking on this list since it started and i thought it was 
about time i finally post something...
i just got back from the AES convention in NY and picked up a 
free copy of Remix Magazine (alog with a throng of others) while i 
was there. so i was going through the stack when i noticed the 
word "Wiard" on the cover of afforementioned periodical.
there's a pretty long review and the summary gives the Wiard a 4 
out of 5! (i didn't ruin it for anyone did i?). congrats grant! it's good 
to see a little more press coming your way and good press at 
that!
also, while i'm here, i was wondering how the Micro-Wiard was 
coming along... are you still considering a stylophone sort of 
keyboard? are there any other cost-effective options that you've 
been exploring? from experience, those stylophone keyboards/
pens get pretty rough as time goes on and aren't the most 
usable thing in the world. they're cute at first but after a short time 
the novelty really wears thin and you wish there an easy way to 
quickly move back and forth from one side of the keyboard to the 
other. is there a way to make a touch sensitive keyboard cheaply 
(with respect to how much the stylophone keyboard would be)? 
a poor man's mini-buchla keyboard?
just a few thoughts...

-jack america

p.s. have you ever considered doing any strictly audio designs? 
like mic pres or compressors?