David,

you find my comments written inline

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> Hello Dieter,
> I guess this means you're back from your vacation. Hope it was
> a good one.

Yes. Thank you. I'm already back for more than one week. It seems that there
occured some problems during my vacation with my Yahoo account because of my
email autoresponder. The account has been terminated (in the meantime it's
working again) and some of my messages to the group disappeared or had a
very long delay (the message you answer to has been sent by me on April 06,
2007). I'll probably re-send copies of my other messages if they do not
appear during the next few days.

> I just wanted to post some thoughts on why, for me, the
> mono keyboard seems a better route at this point in time. It's not
> only the money that I would have to spend to get a good poly setup.
> But boy, it must cost, say, minimum 10000 US to get something viable
> going at, say, the five-voice level. It's also the sheer complexity
> of all the patchworking. I like to keep my setup relatively simple.
> They say you can never have too many modules. But I like to work
> relatively small for the "old-fashioned" modular-type setup. I'm
> thinking a double G6 setup is about as complex as I would like to
> get. But I am not very "live" oriented.

I'll probably generate some contradictions .....
But to speak the truth I cannot see an advantage of the TKB in the studio
situation over a "normal" keyboard. From my point of view the main advantage
(if there is one) is in a live situation where the audiance can see you play
on that metal plates instead of a normal black/white moving keyboard.

> I like to let multitracking
> do the work of the poly mode; no need to provide one module of each
> of the main types for every voice. I had a smallish modular Emu
> back in the day. They came out with a poly keyboard around the time
> I bought my system in 1978. I lusted after this machine, sure, but
> how did they tame that beast over at the Chicago School of the Art
> Institute, one that I saw but never played, with its dimensions of
> about 44 by 60 inches A colleague of mine lamented the amount of
> time it took to set up one patch on that thing. I do find thd the
> modular mode the best for my needs, which tend in the direction of
> atonal nonmelodic with a lot of "nonstandard" rhythmic patterning.
> But it does tend to be cumbersome in the time department.
>
> David Westling
> Chciago IL