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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:43:49 +0000<br>
From: babsyco babsyco <<a href="mailto:babsyco@hotmail.com">babsyco@hotmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think the area of MIDIcontroller technology is so ignored, probably cause there's no market fo it cause of that dumb attitude. I wish someone would come up with some interesting physical controller that actually requires substantial physical effort to manipulate parameters, or at least could withstand and respond to it.<br>
</blockquote></div><br> I am always surprised when people have no idea about <a href="http://www.robotcowboy.com/musical-interfaces/digitar/">my casio midi guitar </a>when it's been around since the late 80s. At most they think it's a toy ... *sigh*. I'm disappointed that, at this day and age, I can't go buy a digital controller like this that's new without having to pay money++ aka ztar. I wish casio made these in wood+metal. I have 3 of them now so I can fix the two working ones if a part breaks.<br>
<br>Oh boy thanks Roland .. I can buy a chaos "kaoss" pad. Woopty do. Oh boy Yamaha, I can buy your latest a greatest keytar reissue which is mostly for the 80's revivalists. Or better yet, I can drop $2000+ for a custom super tactile midi controller from [insert small german electronics company here] that most people play with feather fingers. *sigh*<br>
<br>You can't blame just the musicians for making bad performances. Not everyone playing music is a hardware hacker, etc like many of us on the list, so unless more interfaces are available, then people won't use them.<br>
<br>-- <br>Dan Wilcox<br>danomatika<br><a href="http://www.robotcowboy.com">www.robotcowboy.com</a><br>