I do like the idea of an expandable unit. Why well it allows me & other to budget better, it means I get the features I need/want (after all I already own a MAQ16/3, 2 A155's and a 8 step A Solutions sequencer) which is the touch keyboard.

Good idea indeed.

David



Andreas Lindholm
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This is uncanny Bakis, activate and deactivate is the way regelwerk and
shaltwerk works, then you can set notepitch and loop lenght and that's it. I
fear that the same old chip is used again... please do ask doepfer if that
is the case. It would be a sad day indeed if they decided to just throw in
that old 95% or 80% filled cpu/rom just to add another feature.

If I was a serious harware designer I wouldn't do it like that. A more
sensible solution to me as a modular user would be to leave an empty
expansion slot in the machine and then work seriously on a seqencer
expansion board for thoose who want to buy that later. That would also leave
the track of light / semilight version and have ONE quality products with
expansion possibilities. I also think that is a concept that sells better
cause everybody will be able to buy the basic machine and they will probably
yearn for the expansion as we all do for new modules for the A100 and buy
the expansion in a near future when the have the money.

And while they are at it why not make the new super-seqencer module in
A100format and the slot in the touchkeyboard in size to accept said module
Then it would sell well for both formats... this said to avoid the argument
of "that won't sell" issues.

/Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "bakis Sirros" < synth_freak_2000@... >
To: < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: 1 A little about that touch keyboard


> hi andreas,
> the sequencer in the sensor keyboard will be one of
> the more creative sequencers from doepfer(my
> opinion...)you will be able to activate or deactivate
> steps on the fly,to change the sequence lenght on the
> fly and these things to me are far more important than
> the ability to store or chain patterns....of course it
> will be able to start/stop and sync to midi that's
> basic stuff,anyway...as for the note length,i think i
> can control that by the apropriate triggers settings
> in one of my a155 that i will have synced to the
> sensor keyboard and to midi,if i want,but again,i
> don't know what the exact sequencer functions will
> be,so i cannot say that it will not have variable note
> lenght...of course if i want more complex note lenght
> settings i turn to my computer sequencer(a
> state-of-the-art ATARI 1040 ST...;-)...)
> the only think that worries me is if i will have the
> money to buy 2 of them!!!(the sensor keyb.,i mean)
>
> synthfreak
>
> --- Andreas Lindholm < andreas.k.lindholm@... >
> wrote:
> > If the touch keyboard would amount to anything good
> > I would say that it
> > should either exclude all sequencer functions or
> > they should be very
> > carefully thought out. There is as far as I
> > understand it no point in adding
> > something that if very limited when there are
> > several other solutions to do
> > it better. So I say NO - sequencer or one that
> > really works in a practical
> > sense (that includes 16,8,4 half and whole notes)
> > start/stop sync from midi
> > a few chainable patterns at least...
> >
> > But since I don't like playing on dead surfaces I
> > won't buy one anyway ;)
> >
> >
>
>
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