[sdiy] Starting my ASM-1

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Starting my ASM-1
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:30:58 -0700

> At 08:18 PM 1/10/2002, Rob Mantel wrote:
> >I built the formant keyboard years ago, and to be honest, I would never do
> >it again. A lot of those keyboards, like the formant one, use double
> >contacts for each key (one for the cv, one for the gate), its a pain to keep
> >those contacts work reliable and trigger both at exactly the same time over
> >the years.  So if you want to build your own, try to find something that
> >only uses 1 contact per key, but unless you can find the right schematics,
> >it won't be easy to have a keyboard that you can play both with and without
> >triggering a new gate pulse when you play the keys legato. There might be an
> >easy solution for this, but I don't know it.
> 
> 
> See EN #67 (12)   :)
> 

Does that really help anybody? I don't think so... the ElectroNotes are
not on the web (except one I think) and not many really has them, and
certainly not a newbee...

For a newbee that line is hidden in deep cryptology except maybe for
the smilee and the first word.

Cheers,
Magnus - have a sense of humor, but don't think it applies in this case