I found the book on the MIDI keyboard always a bit odd, because it just doesn't look like a manual - too many pages, and it has a funny looking cover design for a manual. Also, Ed deliberately having his photo taken, and then including a manual for a tiny "toy" keyboard just seemed a bit weird!
Ok that raised my curiosity regarding the book, but the resolution of the above photo just isn't enough to make out the book's title, even with image enhancement:
The same photo also got published in the German "Eclipsed" magazine interview from some months ago, but the resolution of the interesting part also wasn't detailed enough:
Frustrating...
Help came from The Netherlands, in the form of the "Armageddon Part I" CD single from Groove. Edgar's picture is on the back cover of the CD, and scanned at 400dpi the book looks like this:
Ok that looked a bit more promising.
After some perspective correction, contrast enhancement and image denoising, I arrived at this:
At 3 meters distance from the monitor, my best guess for the title was either "The Final Touch" or "The Final Truth". Wow, for a MIDI manual, that book must be the mother lode of an authoritative guide I thought...
After typing in "The Final Truth" at Amazon.com, one of the results I got was this book:
Bingo.
Link to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-Guide ... 92944809X/
Wikipedia entry about Mr. Balsekar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balsekar
Coming next: Edgar's brand of trainers.
