Well...(obscure H7 content)

HarrySeven

Looky look!

http://i.imgur.com/NTYARcm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BJL7Uin.jpg

impmann

Nope.

None the wiser.

Wossat?

crunchman

Wot is that?

JerkMoans

Some species of MIDI synth sorcery, I'd wager.  Best left to necromancers and their ilk.

blobb

Wow. Is that the prototype?

(It's a Beetle Quantar MIDI controller, killed off after Yamaha claimed a patent on the technology.)

HarrySeven

@blobb - yup! Beetle Quantar.  

guitars4you

what the eck

note it says Beetle but none the wiser - tell me more

Funkfingers

Pretty scarce in the UK, I'd say. I have only ever seen them as photographs in a Craig Anderton book. There ought to be a box of electronical gubbins to go with the guitar controller. 

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

Pretty scarce in the UK, I'd say. I have only ever seen them as photographs in a Craig Anderton book. There ought to be a box of electronical gubbins to go with the guitar controller. 

There is indeed.

HarrySeven

Funkfingers

How many Beetle Quantar outfits do you have now? :-p

Bridgehouse

It looks fabulous, despite the fact I have absolutely no clue wtf it actually is.

JerkMoans

"Velocity Knob"?

Bridgehouse

JerkMoans said:

"Velocity Knob"?

Comes too quickly 

Funkfingers

JerkMoans said:

"Velocity Knob"?

Batteries not included.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

How many Beetle Quantar outfits do you have now? :-p

Anderz

I agree with most here. Nice but? WTF?

Philly_Q

I love the way the back panel perfectly captures that "knackered old 1980s games console" look.

blobb

Thought I remembered seeing a video of one of these at some point......and here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPK_xcKxzQY

although this one looks slightly different so there must be at least 2 in existence.

Vibetronic

that's amazing - is it all still working? Would love to see some (newer!) clips of it in use

vale

the double act in the video are the same team from the alesis sr16 video manual i learned the basics of that from. they're everywhere (like dog hair).

that ambient noodling at 2m20s ish sounds like the intro noise to dire straits 'money for nothing'. maybe that's random coincidence or maybe mister knobbler once dabbled with.

and now for six months trying to make sense of a manual written by robots for robots.
you're like one of those extreme amazon adventurers who constantly have to learn arcane dialects that only six people on the planet ever actually speak. masochist!