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> I just bought a mini-Z fro Ztar systems. It's a mid controller set up >like a > touch style instrument. It has six, two-octave 'strings' (rows of > buttons/keys) and you can set the tuning and splits any way you want. One > very interesting 'tuning' that I have seen mentioned is setting up the > strings in straight octaves (each string corresponds to one octave >higher. > This makes for an intuitive, symmetrical finger patterns and lightning >fast > scales and arpeggios. Of course, harmony, chords and polyphonic playing >is > more difficult, since you need both hands to play a melody line (to span >a > whole octave of button/keys), and chords become very wide stretchs. You can still play chords on a single "string" (row of keys), which leads to many chord voicings impossible to play on an instrument with real strings. > talked to a number of satisified customers. If anyone is interested, I'll > dig up the web address. Their site has lots of pretty pictures for the > curious. It's http://catalog.com/starrlab/ For the truly sick, Starrlabs also offers a MIDI controller that has hexagon keys laid out in a honeycomb-like configuration. It's based on a design submitted by a customer who wanted a controller for microtonal applications. All Starrlabs instruments offer deep programming options. For example, one could assign a chord to one drumpad in real-time, record and playback MIDI LOOPS, and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Well, I had to work this to an on-topic zone somehow. :) Cheers, Paolo Valladolid --------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | \ To subscribe, go to the web page below (do not email me): \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| -----------------------------------------------------------------