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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.
Those things look cool. But the real MM16 is in fact the Kawai MM16
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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.
ReplyDeleteTrip. Never saw the Kawai MM16 before either. Might have to keep an eye out for one...
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