Afternoon all!
I'm currently looking at adding a stepper (general piston sequencer) device to a Hauptwerk installation. A few hours around the forum and the internet at large suggest that there are a lot of stepper devices, displays, button interfaces etc available, but little in the way of standardization.
The following seems to model the widest range of possibilities - which is where the registration system stores registrations for zero or more players, and where each player has zero or more pieces and where each piece contains zero or more general registrations and zero or more divisional registrations.
1. Player stepper - this stepper selects the player number. Buttons for this stepper include '-' and '+' (select different players), and insert (add new player at this position) + delete (discard player at this position). One display plus four buttons used to configure the player stepper.
2. Piece stepper - this stepper selects the piece number belonging to the selected player number (so each player can store lots of divisional and general registrations for lots of pieces of music). Buttons for this piece stepper include '-' and '+' (select different pieces), and insert (add new empty piece at this position) + delete (discard piece at this position). One display plus four buttons used to configure the piece stepper.
3. General stepper - which controls general registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Thumb pistons attached to this stepper are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next general registration. Beside the general stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of general registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current general registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current general registration at this position), plus delete (delete general registration at this position). One display plus two thumb pistons used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the general stepper.
4. Divisional stepper - which controls divisional registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Thumb pistons attached to each divisional stepper are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next divisional registration. Beside each divisional stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of divisional registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current divisional registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current divisional registration at this position), plus delete (delete divisional registration at this position). One display plus two thumb pistons used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the divisional stepper.
5. Pedal stepper - which controls pedal registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Toe studs are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next pedal registration. Beside the pedal stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of pedal registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current pedal registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current pedal registration at this position), plus delete (delete pedal registration at this position). One display plus two toe studs used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the pedal stepper.
So, say there's a IV/P instrument, the total comes to - a player stepper display plus four buttons, a piece stepper display plus four buttons, a general stepper display plus two pistons per manual and five buttons at the display, four divisional stepper displays (each with two thumb pistons and five buttons at the display), plus one pedal stepper display (two toe studs and five buttons at the display). Total of two toe studs, eight stepper displays, sixteen thumb pistons, thirty-eight at-display buttons.
While this seems to cover off all the possibilities within one flexible design, it does come to an awful lot of displays and buttons.
Comments?
I'm currently looking at adding a stepper (general piston sequencer) device to a Hauptwerk installation. A few hours around the forum and the internet at large suggest that there are a lot of stepper devices, displays, button interfaces etc available, but little in the way of standardization.
The following seems to model the widest range of possibilities - which is where the registration system stores registrations for zero or more players, and where each player has zero or more pieces and where each piece contains zero or more general registrations and zero or more divisional registrations.
1. Player stepper - this stepper selects the player number. Buttons for this stepper include '-' and '+' (select different players), and insert (add new player at this position) + delete (discard player at this position). One display plus four buttons used to configure the player stepper.
2. Piece stepper - this stepper selects the piece number belonging to the selected player number (so each player can store lots of divisional and general registrations for lots of pieces of music). Buttons for this piece stepper include '-' and '+' (select different pieces), and insert (add new empty piece at this position) + delete (discard piece at this position). One display plus four buttons used to configure the piece stepper.
3. General stepper - which controls general registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Thumb pistons attached to this stepper are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next general registration. Beside the general stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of general registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current general registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current general registration at this position), plus delete (delete general registration at this position). One display plus two thumb pistons used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the general stepper.
4. Divisional stepper - which controls divisional registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Thumb pistons attached to each divisional stepper are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next divisional registration. Beside each divisional stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of divisional registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current divisional registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current divisional registration at this position), plus delete (delete divisional registration at this position). One display plus two thumb pistons used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the divisional stepper.
5. Pedal stepper - which controls pedal registrations for the selected piece of the selected player. Toe studs are '-' and '+' to trigger the previous and next pedal registration. Beside the pedal stepper display, there are left and right arrow buttons to scroll through the list of pedal registrations for the selected piece of the selected player, plus set (set the current pedal registration at this position), plus insert (insert the current pedal registration at this position), plus delete (delete pedal registration at this position). One display plus two toe studs used while playing and five buttons to be used while configuring the pedal stepper.
So, say there's a IV/P instrument, the total comes to - a player stepper display plus four buttons, a piece stepper display plus four buttons, a general stepper display plus two pistons per manual and five buttons at the display, four divisional stepper displays (each with two thumb pistons and five buttons at the display), plus one pedal stepper display (two toe studs and five buttons at the display). Total of two toe studs, eight stepper displays, sixteen thumb pistons, thirty-eight at-display buttons.
While this seems to cover off all the possibilities within one flexible design, it does come to an awful lot of displays and buttons.
Comments?