microtonal keybd?

[J.D. McEachin]

You would have a much more flexible system if you used a DX7II w/  a 
Pitch To Linear Voltage Converter.  The DX7II has programmable 
micro-tuning tables with tunings available for download on the Net.  
However, the DX will run you US$400-600 and you'll have to build 
your own converter, but this IS synth-diy, right?

Better yet, a TX802 is multi-timbral with multiple outputs - you could 
control up to 8 monosynths w/ it, assuming you had enouh eonverters....


On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, M. Nail wrote:

> 
> i want to build a microtonal keyboard that spits out cv's to my Yamaha
> cs-15.  I'd actually like to build two, cheaply...  I've got a vague idea
> about having a bunch of resistors in series which a key would short out,
> but how do you work out the resistance?  and what can by used for keys
> (I'm thinking something like the AKS touch-keypad or the Buchla/Serge
> capacitance plate things?) besides ebony and ivory (or big chunks of
> moving plastic)? 
> 
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