[sdiy] keyboard question

[Ian Smith]

It's Ian. And the matrix is no problem for me, Samppa... assuming that's what I'm going for. I just want to know about the stuff on the contacts. I doubt it's goo.
-Ian 
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> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:23:04 +0300
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] keyboard question
> From: samppa.tolvanen at gmail.com
> To: taciturn_unquiet at hotmail.com
> CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Ian Smith
>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm thinking of making a controller for my synth. I'm going to fashion it after a concertina. It's going to be a CV controller, not MIDI. I want to etch the buttonboard like a commercial keyboard to reduce the amount of rat's nest. My question is this: The black stuff that covers the contact points on commercial keyboards, what is it? where do I get it? and Is it really necessary?
>
> Well, Dan.
>
> Or was it Ian.. think it over. Goo to copper is so yesterday and You
> still need a matrix to read that sort of keyboard. Move one.
>
> Samppa

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