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I bought the BB chips from vintageplanet.nl . Nice outfit. I did start my project and did get the kit from Bridechamber, also nice guys. I should point this out if anyone decides to jump in to the Haible project. The Bridechamber kit is not everything, and is built on the MOTM platform, not Moog, thus some work to deal with the different power supply requirements is necessary. Some of the Bridechamber caps were hard to identify unless you have a lot of hands-on experience, and finally the Dragonfly treatment of this build is great but drops off about 80% through the build. The rest of the stuff except the BB chips can be found at Mouser or DigiKey. The bottom line – if you haven’t built anything of even medium complexity, as we say up here – fuggettaboutit. And a decent scope is a necessity.
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of gino wong
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:42 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] ID The Keyboard?
That is an old project in Synth DIY circles, you may want to check with Juergen or Bridechamber to make sure that that boards and unobtainium (3 bbd chips) are currently available. You may want to look at the Krautrock Phaser if you are looking at such things as tri chorus.
If you are going to build one , go to www.Dragonflyalley.com to get details on how to get the build done properly.
You can pull an Eminent / Solina out of a common home organ that sold in Holland and Germany in the 70's.
Crumar Performer, Crumar Trilogy were the last string synths that were coveted by many. At least that is what I saw at work.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Andy kinch alsal synths<kinchmusic@aol.com> wrote:
I use 2 sources for my "Solina" parts. The first is on the Roland XP80's "Vintage" card. Now I also have a brilliant version on my Nord Electro 2. Both perfectly useable IMO.
In the mid seventies, a friend of mine had a Masive "Eminent" Organ which had virtually the same "buzzy" string sound as the Solina.
For recording, I like to use the Mellotron for mid strings down, and then mix in the "Solina" flavour for the higher register. Nice blend.
Andy K
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From: john barrick <barrickjohn262@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:33
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] ID The Keyboard?
John - thanks much for posting. This sounds very tempting, and I may just undertake it as my next project. I guess I better start trolling ebay and other sources for an input keyboard. I had read that the Solina used a sawtooth wave generator, but in the article, he says it's square but highly filtered. That's interesting.
I'd love to find an old Solina, but at the end of the day, the sound is what's important.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:56 AM, John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com> wrote:
Check this out. Before I bought my Solina, I was planning on building a Triple Chorus module for my DotCom. Great engineering overview by one of the synth DIY masters out there. Has a nice explanation of the Solina.
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john barrick
∗Leo got it right the first time∗
∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗
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Gino Wong Birgelo
BSComm, BSEE & BS in general