[sdiy] Commercial 1v/octave keyboards?

[Dave Magnuson]

Chris,

I tried scavanging a cheap Casio keyboard.   The contact resistance varied 
so much from key-to-key that I couldn't make it work as a V/Oct controller.
The ones I scavanged from an old Thomas Organ (j-wire style) work great, 
however

Just figured I'd mention it before you waste a few hours soldering resistors 
to a Casio mechanism....

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Manders" <wight446 at yahoo.com>
To: "Colin Raffel" <colin at experimentalistsanonymous.com>; "NATE!" 
<timexheater at comcast.net>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Commercial 1v/octave keyboards?


>I was hoping at some future stage to build my own 1V/Octave Keyboard, using 
>a cheap Casio or Yamaha full size one, ripping it apart and then soldering 
>100 Ohms resistors between each key contact. After that, use some other 
>circuitry to achieve a nice 1V/Octage spacing. Come to think of it, I would 
>probably add wooden end cheeks to that too.
>
> Colin Raffel <colin at experimentalistsanonymous.com> wrote:  Sheesh, that 
> one is $$! Maybe I will have to suck it up and buy a
> MIDI controller and glue wood to it or something....
>
> -Colin
>
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:48 PM, NATE! wrote:
>
>> i think analog systems is the only other one...
>> http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/
>> also super $$$
>>
>> i guess the only other option is to get a solid midi controller,
>> and cram a
>> midi to CV box inside of it and leech voltage... or just rip it
>> apart and
>> make a nice wooden case for it all :)
>>
>> - nate
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin Raffel"
>> To: "synth-diy"
>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:52 PM
>> Subject: [sdiy] Commercial 1v/octave keyboards?
>>
>>
>>> I have scoured the net for commercially made controllers with 1v/
>>> octave outputs, and was sad to only find the synthesizers.com one.
>>> Are there any other ones out there? Or perhaps any simple wooden
>>> MIDI controllers that don't look like cheap plastic star trek trance?
>>>
>>> -Colin
>>
>>
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