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I would second that opinion, keyboard style paradigm is quite boring, I think touch controllers can be much more interesting in different styles.

Mikhail

Florian Anwander wrote:

> 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
>

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