Maybe its because the current version of the TKB received an
unenthusiastic response at trade shows. I still wonder if the
keyboard appearance might have caused confusion: it may have looked
to many like a cheap alternative to a real keyboard.

Maybe if it was turned into the ultimate combination of an
interactive sequencer and voltage & trigger source it might be more
marketable.

Of course, I say this as somebody who has no real understanding of
the manufacturing and marketing considerations faced by Mr.
Doepfer. I just know that I personally wanted something along the
lines of the Serge TKB, but I won't can't pay the inflated prices
now demanded by STS. Plus, I'm certain that Mr. Doepfer and company
could come up with a much better alternative, with lots of
additional and useful ways of interacting with the sequencer through
the touch plates.

The alternative for achieving something like this would be to
connect the proposed TKB or another keyboard to a A-154/dual 155
combination, or to a Cyndustries Milton. But these possibilities
don't seem as neat and ergonomic as an all in one solution, and
don't offer the same interaction between a running sequence and the
touch plates.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Bakis Sirros
<synth_freak_2000@y...> wrote:

> me.i'm waiting for the TKS to be finished
> forever!but,i don't know why,doepfer never seems to
> decide it's final set of features and release date...
> bakis.
>
>
>
> --- shm1400 <shm14@h...> wrote:
> > Is there any update on the TKB It seems that the
> > design was never
> > really finalized.
> >
> > I was seriously considering a Serge TKB, that is
> > until Rex Probe
> > decided to increase its price to $1,800.00. Ouch.
> >
> > Maybe this price increase could be an opportunity.
> > Certainly Mr.
> > Doepfer could come up with something superior to the
> > Serge TKB,
> > which is a 25 year old design. I'd like to see
> > something like a 4X16
> > sequencer with touch plates and the kind of
> > interactive control the
> > Serge offers, but also with VC stage selection like
> > in the A-154, a
> > couple of trigger busses like the A-155, a VC slew,
> > and maybe other
> > goodies I'm not imaginative enough to think up. And
> > I'm sure he
> > could do it for a bit less than $1,800. (I've read
> > that STS stuffs
> > boards by hand) Anybody else want to see something
> > like this
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> =====
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