I had an idea just now

[racoon]

if you don't have some local hackerspaces to get in touch with someone who will make you a personalized DIY midicontroller and you aren't as much interested in electronics to be able to make your own you will have to wait ~1-2 years until its boxed in the store for the customers

i think their are already some big players developing this products for the market, for sure ;o)

Here you will find a very large international list of hackerspaces:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_Hacker_Spaces

there you will find the contacts and know how you need ;o)

[farhanashraf]

ibtf

[echo.ranger]

Here's another, although it seems specific to Cubase:

http://www.steinberg.net/en/products...mc_series.html

They do seem to support standard MIDI though

[Yul]

edit: oups, was about to give the link to Steinberg's too.

[deevey]

Ok thats really F*cked up! I was literally today thinking earlier on about a modular system and how to do it reasonably and the Mawser (of course) came to mind ... always wondered what happened it, There is a fine line between quality vs price I guess they passed (way) over it.

Crazy that you had the notion though too, Great minds ? ... or fools seldom differ :P