Eigenharp Pico - anyone??

[Andrew Tarpinian]

This is kind of a similar concept as what the eigenharp is doing, 2 axis modwheel but on each key, though more like the characteristic of a pitch bend wheel since it snaps back, so you are not editing  parameters, more playing them.

Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:

>> Alternative controllers dont excite me so much.  I have been very
>> happy with keyboard.
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>Me too .. but you know what I want?  A regular keyboard with, instead  
>of 50 or so knobs, mod wheels extending the entire back-edge of the  
>device .. you know, just take the mod-wheel concept and use the back- 
>edge of the keyboard as the primary control surface - so with my right  
>hand I could be playing a line, and with my left hand, in front of it  
>(first hand to the audience), a whole set of wheels to control  
>parameters.
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>This is one of those obvious ideas that I just don't understand why  
>nobody has done it yet.  It would do wonders for making keyboards/ 
>synthesizers more fun to play, and interesting for the audience.   
>Instead of one mod-wheel (or two), 60 or heck .. 88 .. almost one for  
>each key, extending along the back edge.
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>Imagine that!  I think it would rock.  It bums me out I haven't been  
>able to experience that yet, but I'm sure we might see it some day ..
>
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>Jay Vaughan
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