MATRIXSYNTH: Penny & Giles MM16 MIDI controller


Monday, May 15, 2006

Penny & Giles MM16 MIDI controller

Title link takes you to a couple of more shots pulled from this auction.

Details:

Penny & Giles MM16 MIDI MANAGER ( 6 unit 19" rack )

These units were designed for the pro studio. They are quite rare because of their expense: originally over £1500 I think.

The unit is quite easy to program with 16 x P&G backlit endless moving belt faders, buttons (momentary or toggle on/off), rotary encoder wheel and LCD screen.

The MM16 is designed to provide accessibility to the myriad parameters that exist within even a modest MIDI set-up.

There are two basic modes of operation, Workstation Mode and MM16 Mode.

Workstation Mode:
...allows the user to exercise control over the various Digital Audio Workstations
...by generating and receiving MIDI commands...

MM16 Mode:
In this, the MM16 is a general-purpose MIDI controller with all of the control elements programmable by the user...
16 programmable P&G backlit endless belt faders,
16 programmable (toggle/momentary) illuminated button switches.
2 footswitch jack inputs
16 MIDI DIN sockets;
MIDI Merge IN and THRU
6 Main MIDI OUT
MIDI Control IN and THRU
6 Aux MIDI OUT
Control buttons for external sequencer;
START, CONT, STOP plus Rew, FF, Start, Stop and Rec
Rotary encoder, buttons for the accessing and editing the 64 stored programmes

Via Music Thing.

3 comments:

  1. Those things look cool. But the real MM16 is in fact the Kawai MM16
    http://www.synthony.com/vintage/mav8mm16.html

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  2. P&G was trying to sell these off at NAMM in 2000 or 2001 for a few hundred bucks each. They never took off sales wise. I later heard the belt units were a little flakey. Spares cost more than the whole unit's used value.

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  3. Trip. Never saw the Kawai MM16 before either. Might have to keep an eye out for one...

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