[sdiy] Kiwi Technics Polysix/JX3P uP board retrofits

[Florian Anwander]

Hello Tom

The Kiwitechnics products are developed by Murray Hodge. But it is not a 
one man show. He works in a small company, which does various special 
hardware and software.

To discuss questions with murray like the LFO improvement, you may join 
the kiwitechnics Yahoo list 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kiwitechnics/join).

Btw: You should not be woried to find me as the list admin ;-) - I was 
involved deeply in the concept of the user interface for the KIWI-3P and 
did (and still do) a lot of betatesting for Murray. I don't own a 
Polysix anymore, but with the KIWI-board I think about getting one again.

Florian

Am 08.11.2012 12:16, schrieb Tom Wiltshire:
> http://www.kiwitechnics.com
>
> Thanks for that link, Florian. I can't believe I hadn't come across that site before, especially as I've looked into Poly6 MIDI retrofits on several occasions. Just goes to show that Google isn't the internet.
> About my only criticism of the KiwiSix replacement processor board would be that it doesn't add anything to the modulation LFO. The original board uses a pretty limited LM13700-based VCLFO. Some other replacement uP boards have used the processor to add the features a digital LFO gives you to the PolySix (more waveforms, noise, S&H, MIDI tempo sync, etc etc). Since the KiwiSix is upgradable via MIDI, I might write them an email and suggest it.
>
> The JX3P stuff looks very good too, but I don't have one of those!
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> On 8 Nov 2012, at 09:46, Florian Anwander wrote:
>
>> Hi Julian
>>
>>
>> Am 08.11.2012 10:25, schrieb julian schmidt:
>>> Do you know of affordable sources for transilluminated (backlit) knobs?
>>> I stumbled upon the EHC knobs http://www.ehcknobs.com/index.php?id=TM
>>> but with prices from 10-20$ per knob! they are much too pricey.
>>>
>>> I'd love to have a simple (soft touch?) black knob with a transparent
>>> marker for LED illumination.
>>> An encoder knob without markings but with a glowing ring on top would be
>>> nice, too
>> Murray Hodge from kiwitechnics uses backlit knobs (but different style) for his Patch Editor. http://www.kiwitechnics.com/index_htm_files/36.jpg
>> Murray is a very helpful person. His adress is simply: info at kiwitechnics.com
>>
>> Florian
>>
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