[sdiy] DIY PG-800?

[cheater cheater]

Things that take the pg800 generally also take sysex for the same
jobs. I'm not sure if there's a difference at all when you're
operating.

www.ucapps.de - i think the community even made some controller
firmware specifically for some synths that take the pg800. see the
forum.

hth
D

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Matthew Smith <matt at smiffytech.com> wrote:
> 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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