Donny, i will give you an example of how i think (allways more like an engineer then like a musician)

Check this video of a melodium on Musik Messe...



Most people see just a little funny melodium..

But i see an opportunity..

I start thinking,
- what if we midify this melodium and add a breathcontroller...
- add keys with aftertouch to the right hand..
- and then to the left side some buttons to switch articulations..
- and on the left backside a long ribbon controller to be controlled with your left thumb
Then we would have a top knotch instrument for keyboardists on stage to play very creative parts..
Kind of the saxaphone version of the keytar.... but still much more then other windcontrollers a keyboard version because of the black and white keys...

And thats pretty much how my mind works when i see things... allways looking and thinking about making things more usefull...

Maybe that explains why i have so much interest in the gear part, thats just who i am, and thats what i like to discuss...

(On top of that i try and make music for atleast 2 hours a day, from which one hour is reserved for my piano lessons)