[sdiy] Hohner Electronic Piano
Gregtronic
greg at gregtronic.com
Tue May 13 22:55:35 CEST 2008
Hey all. I just got a Hohner International Electronic Piano. It has
two sounds which are piano and harpsichord which both sound cool
especially when you mix them together. Also it has a nice vibrato
function which has control over the speed. Of course the moment i
got this, my mind starts wandering to cool ways i could mod this. It
would be great if i could access the filter(s) to add controls, the
vibrato so i could adjust depth, and if i could modify the envelope.
The first two mods would be simpler than the envelope mod. Because
the synth uses frequency dividers, there's an envelope for each
individual note. But i'm thinking if i could just got a constant
sustain signal, i could use a volume pedal and have a pretty sweet
string synth. That, added with the controls for the filter and vibrato.
Of course, without the schematics i'm pretty much hopelessly lost at
this point, as i have never even attempted to reverse engineer
anything, so i'm saving that for my last possible choice. Does
anyone happen to know if there are schematics or a service manual
around for these? There's not much information on the internet as it
is about these guys. Also, are my mods even realistic/possible/worth
it? Any help or information anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
-Gregory
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