[sdiy] DIY PG-800?

[Matthew Smith]

Hi Folks

Has anyone succeeded in creating their own PG-800 equivalent?  I did a 
search of the list archives and saw that someone was planning to do this 
about 10 years ago, but nothing since.

I have a Roland MKS-70 that I have owned for many years but never gone 
beyond presets, simply because I can't cope with all that messing around 
with numbers.  I need knobs!

There's a PG-800 on eBay Australia at the moment, but I reckon that it 
will end up costing more than the synth.  (And more than I want to pay 
as I have just exhausted my budget on an old sampler and peripherals.) 
Building a MIDI control surface to programme through sysex does not 
appear to be too complicated but that would then be hogging my MIDI in, 
so I would need to incorporate MIDI merge in the software (which would 
be complicated.)  Connecting something to the actual programmer socket 
would thus be the preferred method.

Comments?  Ideas?

Cheers

M

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