source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:17:24 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 892 From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> > Would it really be so difficult to get a suitable number of > standard MIDI keyboards and mechanically mount them close above > each other (like an organ but a lot closer), then set each to > it's own channel for input to a computer that does the real > work? I've pondered that in a slightly different light. I suppose to some degree that depends on what you mean by "keyboard". Are you refering to the raw, internal keyboard mechanism (like those by FATAR or whoever) minus the internal electronics and then building a custom electronic and case setup around both? Or by "keyboard" do you mean a complete, off-the-shelf keyboard product, like for example a couple of DX-7s (or whatever) stacked close atop one another? If you mean the latter, then I see two problems to deal with: 1. The top keyboard will still be quite a bit above the bottom one, to the point where it's not terribly practical to finger both at the same time. To a fair degree this applies to the individual mechanisms as well in a custom case. The internal mechanisms aren't a whole lot narrower than finished products. 2. The top keyboard obscures the control buttons of the lower keyboard. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:55 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA08877; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:56:51 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA08618 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA05645; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:56:48 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:56:48 -0800 Message-Id: <009AB5D4CB53C500.262D@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu