[sdiy] Wavemakers site update

[John Loffink]

I don't have any further information on the keyboard. It does not seem 
to be the KB444, which is pictured here: 
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/wmmodpic2.html. However, a keyboard of 
the same configuration as the photo appears in the David Bates 
electronic music studio photo.

The 663 Polyphonic keyboard controller was probably based on discrete 
logic, and as such would more easily be designed today using a $2 
microcontroller. This is the case with almost any digital design from 
the 1970s. Electronotes had some discrete polyphonic controller 
schematics if you are interested in such designs.

Wavemakers equipment still exists in various university and home 
studios. While it would be great to have Wavemakers represented in one 
of the synthesizer museums such as Cantos or the Audities Foundation, 
the web is a geographically liberating medium and I am doing my best to 
provide as much information as possible for all to see. I am hoping to 
do more audio and video clips in the future for the complete Wavemakers 
experience.

John Loffink



On 1/16/2011 12:01 AM, David G. Dixon wrote:
>> Added vintage Wavemakers equipment photos to the Wavemakers history
>> page, including a panoramic photo of Terry Kincaid's impressive basement
>> studio.
>>
>> http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/wm_history.html
> I LOVE that keyboard in the picture near the top of the page!!!!   (heart
> palpitating, hyperventilating)  I'm not seeing any info about it on the
> site.  Is there any info about it?
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> Also, are there any schematics for these modules floating around?  I'd love
> to see how the 633 Polyphonic Keyboard Controller worked, among others.
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> I had no inkling whatsoever that these synthesizers even existed until a
> week ago.  This stuff is absolutely amazing!  Thanks, John!  To think that
> this stuff all came together in 10 short years, and then to realize that
> almost nobody bought any of it.  It's almost surreal!  Does any of this
> stuff still exist, and if so, is there any chance to see it first-hand?
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