--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., "thepeak" <thepeak@b...> wrote:

> The touch sensor keyboard should surely be
> just that. No sequencer, simply a touch sensitive board. It is

then up to

> the individual to incorporate it as they see fit. The maq is

cracking

> sequencer, as is the a155, as I understand are AS and the like.

I agree 100% with this sentiment. Sequencers are available all over
the place, but what I (at least) really need is a basic, flexible
controller for actually playing the Doepfer like an instrument.

I would go further, that I would strongly prefer the "keyboard" not
to have any visual/design reference to a piano-type keyboard. This was Buchla's
great insight, that his 'electric music box' is a whole new kind of
instrument and can be approached in a new way. And after all, no one
will be playing this thing like a tuned keyboard anyway (at least I know I won't), so why use
that ancient design I hope that Dieter Doepfer will reconsider this
design element and offer us a simple, beautiful, innovative, yet
basic, controller.

Ernst