[sdiy] Starting my ASM-1

[Theo]

EN are rather hard to get hold of :(

But what about this solution:
Take a one contact per key keyboard
and let these one key contacts trigger a 4066 or 4053 or FETs or...
In other words; use one switch to switch more switches. 

Theo
(switching off)


From: David Reichert <sysyphus at sympatico.ca>

> 
> Right.
> 
> With that said, can you forward a copy or summarise it for us? I'm
> really curious to know.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Magnus Danielson
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: ijfritz at earthlink.net
> Cc: rmantel at nitline.net; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Starting my ASM-1
> 
> 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
> 
>