From obxwindsurf@yahoo.com Fri Apr 01 06:49:47 2005
Subject:Re: Patent Application (was:New web page!)


I'm aware of the B4D.

Mine has two sets of drawbars, for upper and lower manuals, knob
controllable tube overdrive and volume, knob controllable vibrato and
chorus, and a near future enhancement, knob controllable percussion
decay, volume and harmonic selection. The B4 does not. Mine
controls the following aspects of the B4 out of the box:

Upper and lower manual drawbars
Tube overdrive and volume
Vibrato/Chorus
Tablet switches:
percussion on/off
overdrive on/off
rotor on/off
velocity on/off
vib upper on/off
vib lower on/off

Half moon switch:
Rotor fast/slow with external foot switch connector.

And it does this out of the box with no programming required by the
owner.

Additionally this is not a board this is a fully functioning turnkey
unit. It was designed and built in the fall of 2003.

With this base hardware unit I could easily reprogram the midi send
codes to work with a number of clones.

I would be applying for a patent in the US not the UK.

Thank you for the information.

It can't hurt to try :)

You can see a proto of this unit at:
http://www.vintagemusicprojects.com/B4RTC_images/Assembled.jpg

> a scheme or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or
> doing business;
> the presentation of information, or a computer program.
> If the invention involves more than these abstract aspects so that
> it has physical features (such as a special apparatus to play a new
> game) then it may be patentable.
>
> Cheers
> James