microtonal keybd?

A.S.P. ms20 at serv.net
Thu Feb 13 05:56:04 CET 1997


And if you want to go really cheap, the TX81Z will do uTuning as well.



On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, J.D. McEachin wrote:

> 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)? 
> > 
> > --- mnail at u.washington.edu //---
> > 
> > "A racing car adorned with great pipes like serpents with explosive breath
> > and seeming to run on grapeshot... is more beautiful than the Winged
> > Victory of Samothrace" -Filippo Marinetti
> > 
> > 
> 




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