The Opal controller
By reading this guy’s site, one gets the feeling that he was the original designer of the C-Thru controller. And it looks as if he and C-Thru had a falling-out. So now he’s making his own version. It appears to be the same key layout as the C-Thru. No prices are mentioned. (Not likely to be a bargain.)
I only found out about this because an Opal owner put his hamster in a plastic ball and let the little bugger roll around on his Opal controller. And put it on Youtube. (I really do wish the “Web 2.0 Revolution” would allow us to tag Youtube videos for stupidity.)
I’m having a hard time conclusively connecting the dots between these two companies. The “playing technique” page has some clues that have nothing to do with “playing technique” but nothing that really tells me anything about any kind of “falling out”. The History page seems limited to facts. Alternative Controller people are as crazy as poets and I am usually as fascinated with the stories behind the instruments as the instruments themselves. If y’all have any better story here, I’d love to hear it.
What do you mean, “stupid?” That hamster is a genius! He sounds just like Olivier Messiaen.