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I can't seem to find much in the way of small CV keyboards that
are affordable.

I've been thinking of building a PAIA midi2cv8 into my Novation
MM-10X keyboard and using that as a dedicated modulary
synthesizer controller.

Any thoughts out there for something small and affordable? 
Monophonic is fine with me (for now).

I haven't seen a reply to this so I'll just throw out my two cents.

The only CV keyboards I've heard about recently are the synthesizers.com (is that the name of the company?) for like $500. And I'm sure you remember the Roland CV keyboards that showed up at some shop in NYC about two years ago (and disappeared in the blink of an eye).

You also might want to check this out:

http://sales.goldmine-elec.com/prodinfo.asp?prodid=8280


This was posted on synth diy about a week ago. I've been thinking of getting one (as if I need another project). There would still be some work to make a voltage source for the keys and you'd have to install a resistor per key (and stuff like this never turns out to be easy). You could easily make this keyboard far more accurate then the Moog and ARP (and all the other CV keyboards) in their day since it would be easier to match the resistors, or you could ($$$) use 0.1% resistors. You'd probably also want to add some sort of bender/mod wheel -- I have no idea where you'd get something like this except from a thriftshop Casio or some such thing.

I have a PAiA midi2cv8 and it works OK. I believe Tony A. posted a bunch of mods to make it a bit better. I figure I can use it for non-critical voltage sources or gates. I also have a couple of unfinished Oakley Midi 2 CV PCBs which looked like a good idea when I got them, though some of the parts are rather expensive (as one would expect for a high quality convertor).

Of course, right after I got the Oakley Midi to CV PCBs, Paul announced the MOTM Midi CV convertor. So obviously that's my final (and best) suggestion. I'd use a basic MIDI keyboard patched into the MOTM MIDI convertor -- save yourself the hassle. I know this was originally supposed to ship last month, but I imagine it's getting pretty close by now.

Good luck!
JB