From ripplevac@yahoo.com Sat Feb 06 17:59:22 2010
Subject:Re: Clavia


You might be right, however, any kind of change takes time to be accepted.

Since using touch control wouldn't cause any loss of function, that is, it wouldn't force the player to wait on the machine. Functionally there is nothing that drawbars do better other than providing the familiarity and comfort to a player that is used to them.

To a player who never used drawbars it wouldn't make much difference. I could be wrong here(I've owned an M3 and C3) - it seems that only actually letting users try it would determine if there was a benefit either way.

The real determining factor might be economics. It appears that the OEM costs for just the resistive drawbars, knobs, and mounting sheet metal work, which won't have near the lifespan of real metal Hammond(circa 1960s) drawbars is about $300 USD.

I'm guessing that for Nord to fully integrate touch-controlled drawbars into to their current C2 organ would be less than $200 USD.

Perhaps someone will try this approach and we'll be able to see it's look and feel.

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, djacques@... wrote:
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> Where Clavia went wrong was not using real drawbars to begin with.
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