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Slave Keyboard

2010-10-12 by Howard Smith

Hi Guys

I am a newbie on here.
I have a question -
I have a spare series lll music Keyboard, can I use this as a slave keyboard with my Series lll or llx?

Any help would be wonderful.

Thank you
Howard

Re: Slave Keyboard

2010-10-12 by horiprod

Hi Howard.

The Fairlight "slave" keyboard was a relic of the series I era. It was smaller keyboard without much electronics which plugged into the main keyboard. In a pre-MIDI age, it was designed to be able to connect two keyboards.

Since the series III keyboard IS MIDI, you can simply connect the output of the keyboard to a MIDI in port. The Keyboard output connector is 9pin D-type, so you'll need to either make up a 9pin to 5pin DIN lead, or do what I've done, panel mount a MIDI DIN in the keyboard, and parallel both outputs. I also built in a mains power supply on mine, so have a completely independant mother keyboard. 

Wiring: keyboard 9pin male, pin 2 goes to DIN pin 4, and 9pin 4 goes to DIN pin 5. Din 2 is earth..

Hope this is useful,

Regards,

Peter Wielk

Horizintal Productions in sunny Sydney 




--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Howard Smith" <hjsmkv@...> wrote:

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> Hi Guys
> 
> I am a newbie on here.
> I have a question -
> I have a spare series lll music Keyboard, can I use this as a slave keyboard with my Series lll or llx?
> 
> Any help would be wonderful.
> 
> Thank you
> Howard
>

Re: Slave Keyboard

2010-10-13 by Howard Smith

Hi Peter

Thank you!!

All the best
Howard

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "horiprod" <horizontal_productions@...> wrote:

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> Hi Howard.
> 
> The Fairlight "slave" keyboard was a relic of the series I era. It was smaller keyboard without much electronics which plugged into the main keyboard. In a pre-MIDI age, it was designed to be able to connect two keyboards.
> 
> Since the series III keyboard IS MIDI, you can simply connect the output of the keyboard to a MIDI in port. The Keyboard output connector is 9pin D-type, so you'll need to either make up a 9pin to 5pin DIN lead, or do what I've done, panel mount a MIDI DIN in the keyboard, and parallel both outputs. I also built in a mains power supply on mine, so have a completely independant mother keyboard. 
> 
> Wiring: keyboard 9pin male, pin 2 goes to DIN pin 4, and 9pin 4 goes to DIN pin 5. Din 2 is earth..
> 
> Hope this is useful,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Wielk
> 
> Horizintal Productions in sunny Sydney 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Howard Smith" <hjsmkv@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys
> > 
> > I am a newbie on here.
> > I have a question -
> > I have a spare series lll music Keyboard, can I use this as a slave keyboard with my Series lll or llx?
> > 
> > Any help would be wonderful.
> > 
> > Thank you
> > Howard
> >
>