Hi Bakis

> i would think that a touch keyboard with 24 plates, allighned as a two octaves keyboard, retains the 24 touch plates functionality while, additionally, providing the convenience of a chromatic keyboard, in case anyone want to use it that way in some application. so, you have best of both worlds... (touch plates plus a more standard keyboard, just in case...)

The concept shown at http://www.doepfer.de/a100tkb.htm speaks of a
controller which can be used for both plate keyboards and conventional
keyboards. So I think it does not make sense to copy the classic piano
layout for the touch keyboard.
I voted with "not sure, but assumingly will buy", under my private the
precondition, that it is NOT a classic keyboard. The bugbrand CTL1 was
one of the most interesting modules (if not THE most interesting) I have
seen in the last months. Especially the expressiveness provided by the
"fir tree" shaped pads is great. It is also worth having a look at the
instruments of folktek ( http://folktek.com/) to get an impression, what
is possible with touch plate sensors in electronic musical instruments.

Florian