[sdiy] vintage effects devices salvaged from home organs

[Tom Arnold]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 09:03:14PM -0800, David G. Dixon wrote:
> > There's interest in that, definitely.  Organs, esp partially broken or
> > otherwise abused ones are very plentiful and I nab them when I have space.
> 
> How hard is it, generally, to modify the keyboard of an electronic organ
> into a CV keyboard for modular synth use?

Pretty easy in most cases depending on how much time you spend on it.

You can ladder a bunch of resistors up the back and get a single CV out if
its a two-contact keyboard ( 1 contact for gate, other for CV ).

If its single contact you can do one of many keyboard scanner designs on the
net.

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