[sdiy] keyboard question

[Kyle Stephens]

Cannibalize a strip of rubber membrane pads off a calculator of the like; take a poke at existing keyboards and see how they do it. Or just cannibalize the keyboard period.

Or you considering this is a CV keyboard, there's a reed switch option that forgoes the contacts, and the black whatever altogether. Check out Ray's take on it:

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/SINGLEBUSSKEYBOARD2007/SINGLEBUSSKEYBOARD2007.php

It might be even simpler to gang two of these together, in lieu of a set of reed switches:

http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs10_pedal.html


Least you're not looking to add velocity sensitivity like me, that's a whole 'nother can of worms ;)


_Kyle

--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Ian Smith <taciturn_unquiet at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ian Smith <taciturn_unquiet at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] keyboard question
> To: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 7:33 PM
> 
> Does anyone besides Samppa have a suggestion about making a
> PCB contact buttonboard for a CV concertina and the black
> (most likely conductive stuff) on the contacts under the
> rubber button bits. Sorry for the not so technical speak.
> -Ian
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:07:19 +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
> >
> > Ok, Ian.
> >
> > try some switches.. no PCB contacts, mkay? Alesis
> couldn't do it on
> > musical gear with "proper" manufactory - Why should
> You, nobody is
> > going to do an Universal Remote supporting Your
> design?
> >
> > Samppa
> >
> > p.s. Basically, it's bad engineering. SDIY just Loves
> that. Maybe a
> > bit of Caig Faderlube would fix the original
> ppropplem?
> 
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