From Mark Pulver Sent Mon, Apr 19th 2004, 20:25
From Mark Pulver Sent Mon, Apr 19th 2004, 20:25
Senso (01:08 PM 4/19/2004) wrote: >I can imagine a manufacturer designing a box with 4 rows of 12 pots >and 2 rows of 12 switches, with a card-slot. >For every synth you could then buy a ROM-card and a plastic overlay >with a logical layout. >Small companies would not have to invest a penny, only supply the data. Oh eeeek. So... add a bank of switches to the Doepfer Drehbank and call it done? One of the things (the only thing?) that I _didn't_ like about my Nord Modular was the grid of unlabeled knobs assigned to params. True, you could (or someone should have) created write-on overlays to keep track of things, but in general, it was a lot to remember as you moved through patches. I got into a vibe of always having the main ADSR sitting "here", and the root pitch "over there", but then what do you do with all the fun stuff? :) I think the lack of a good labeling system is the pitfall of a generic controller. Mark