Originally posted by cassp:
I never said they wouldn't exist. They won't be as popular simply because the physical interface will not be designed specifically for any particular software.
Look at the midi keyboard controllers. See all of those knobs, buttons and sliders. Which ones will control the simple ON,OFF, FILL A, FILL B, ETC. functions? Now how do you control chord recognition? By screen menu, button, switch?
I see an arranger software program combined with a special MIDI footpedal board as one possible solution. The arranger buttons would be replaced with foot-controlled buttons that are labeled like arranger buttons (verse, chorus, fill, etc.) sort of like the Yamaha MFC-10 foot conroller works now.
Even if you don't like that idea, I can foresee lots of ways to overcome this problem. How about a prgram to change Roland's D-Beam control into an arranger function - swipe hand upwards for start and downwards for ending, to the right for verse-to-chorus and vice versa. There's more ways to skin this cat I'm sure.
I see some innovative small company coming out with an arranger program and some small piece of dedicated MIDI control surface hardware.
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