I wrote an article for digitaldjtips.com

[DjNecro]

Regarding the Maven... how could ANY midi controller cost nearly 30 grand? and then be controlled by a midibox... If that dollar value is true someone took major advantage of Sasha's bank account..

[michaeldunne109]

Nice piece dude. Just went looking for pictures of the Maven after posting in another thread. But £15,000 a piece i find that very hard to believe:O although it probably took a serious amount of time to design to Sashas specs anybody with the know how could build the hardware and map the software easy enough i assume. The case seems to be very well built id say a good portion of the cost went on the case alone.

I also agree that the Kinect was a major technological step forward the applications for it are endless. I also remember reading somewhere that before Microsoft started developing it the only real step forwards in that particular area of technology was made by DARPA. Only for Microsoft stepping up it would of taken years to come to the market

[elliotg]

paying some specialist an hourly rate for the design and build is probably where much of the money went although 15g does sound pretty high

[farhanashraf]

nice work!