[sdiy] Thank you to the members of this list

[Hermann Seib]

Hi Martyn, 

> Just to try and show what I think I was trying to achieve, yesterday, 
> purely by chance, I found this page
> 
> http://home.stny.rr.com/peverett/gadget.html
> 
> and this is pretty much what I had in mind I think ..... now 
> if someone 
> could just identify the Casio box in the picture......

Although Peter (Hi Peter! :-) answered that, it's relatively irrelevant; any
General MIDI thingie (even the sound card inside your PC, if it has a MIDI
connector) will do practically the same, as long as it has enough voices for
your purpose. Any polyphonic synthesizer with MIDI In (which means that
you're restricted to synths made after 1981 or so :-) will do.

If you want to achieve a specific kind of sound, it might be worth looking
for MIDI modules that are specialized on "that kind of sound"; for example,
if you're into orchestral samples, an Emu Proteus 2 can be found quite often
(and quite cheap). Current example -
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2550288545

Bye,

  Hermann