Again to clarify: I wonder if because now we have white syntakt screens, there might be a non-invasive, straight forward replacement of the screen with one of these clearly compatible parts (no soldering) by swapping the board it’s soldered onto.
Someone with both a Syntakt and Digitakt could check if they’re interchangable, but as I say it would be an expensive route even if possible - the dream lives on!
This is likely possible as the control-board is often only concerned with the interface itself, with all of the synth stuff taking place on the main board below it. I suspect the Digitakt/Syntakt control boards are identical apart from the screen… but that could also be wrong.
This thread always reminds me about the book of David Batchelor about chromophobia.
„The central argument of “Chromophobia” is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some “foreign body” - the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological - or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. Chromophobia has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times.“
„To this day, seriousness in art and culture is a black and white issue.“
slightly concerned about how thick you can make it and still use the buttons vs. how flexible really thin perspex is, but I feel l like there’s probably a workable thicknessas it’s not like it’s a big sheet really.
It’s interesting how historical influences work too and how they’ve shaped aesthetic tastes - like how there’s an elegance and class associated with Roman style marble and the monotone architecture when the reality is that all the paint has just gone and instead everything looked like a cartoon.
Like the Roman and Greek sculptures, I would also very much like to see the ceiling of the Hall of Ambassadors in the Alhambra in its original coloring. That must have been awesome with all the ultramarine color!
But enough about colors, I dont want to derail this thread.
- would look sick on an OT MKII
