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"shari_en_jin" <shari_en_jin@...> wrote:
>
.but,,,,,,,,,,,
> are there any touch-plate style Buchla-esque beasts out there that
wouldn't require a black-
> market kidney sale?  
> Ti_
>

I am afraid that I have not been able to find a durable and playable
tactile input device that is worthy of the time and commitment spent
to learn and physically master it that doe not cost $$$.  

I, too, gagged on my sandwich when I first saw the Continuum
Fingerboard.  Then I met the inventor, and examined the device, and
decided that the device was probably going reliably work 10 years from
now, anad that Lippold was a very nice man who was interested in
standing behind his device.  So, over the period of the rest of my
life, the $$$ for the Fingerboard is too bad.

At the Namm show, Don showed the soon-to ship 222 Kinesthetic Input
port which he mentioned will have a midi output (unlike the rest of
the 200e Series).  Aside from the touch plates, it also has a pair of
electronic 'rings' that project infared bach to a sensor mounted in
the module - outputting a corresponding voltage according to location
and movement....



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