Our idea for such a controller is available here:
http://www.doepfer.de/a100tkb.htm (the picture named "sequencer controller")

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com ]Im Auftrag von partlydrone
> Gesendet: Samstag, 18. April 2009 14:57
> An: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: 1 Re: tks
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> hi dieter
>
> yes, addressed with buttons (or triggers, or voltages) wld be fine.
>
> i guess it would be pretty easy to develop too, although maybe
> costly as it requires eg for a version playing four "notes /
> colours" of 3 voltages each it would need 4 buttons, 12 pots, 16
> jacks etc.
>
> please, please make one i think it would be a surprise hit once
> people realised what could be done with it, to suddenly skip
> between tone colours, it's exactly what sets modulars apart from
> dreary samey synths.
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> i honestly think it would be a big seller
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , <yahoo@...> wrote:
> >
> > This function is not necessarily associated with a touch
> keyboard. It's kind
> > of an dressed sequencer with 3 potentiometer rows. The addressing can be
> > voltage controlled, Midi note controlled or button controlled.
> Of course you
> > may use a TKB to adress the step of the sequencer but that's only one of
> > many possibilities.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Dieter Doepfer
> >
> > > i agree
> > >
> > > i really really want a controller that lets me press a button to
> > > change three CV's suddenly like that bugbrand controller, or the
> > > serge, or any random access sequencer. with my modular, sending
> > > quantised note CVs is the absolute last thing on my mind. i want
> > > to control microtones on ring modulating oscillators, the amount
> > > of reverb mix, and the bit crush depth, changing all three
> > > instantly, with a momentary finger press, and then play huge
> > > variations in those parameters like an instrument.
> > >
> > > i've been meaning to build my own controller for this for about a
> > > year and i think its a real shame that nobody else does. well,
> > > for less than the cost of a serge.
> >
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