MOTM

I had a Moog 1130 Percussion Controller that wasn't working. With the 
recent talk of drum triggers I figured I'd spend some time diagnosing 
and repairing it. Luckily, it was just a FET that had gone bad and 
was easily replaced. There's a picture of it near the bottom of this 
page:

http://www.tellun.com/motm/darmok/20060108/20060108.html

The circuit board is inside the drum and it gets power from a 6 pin 
Cinch-Jones plug. This plugs into the accessory socket on older Moog 
gear (Minimoog, Polymoog, etc.). The 1130 outputs a trigger when you 
hit the drum and a control voltage that is proportional to how hard 
you hit the drum. The circuit outputs both S-Trigger 
(Moog/Korg/Yamaha) and V-Trigger (MOTM/Roland) but the cable assembly 
only has the Moog 2 pin Cinch-Jones plug for S-Trigger. I added 
another phone jack connected to the V-Trigger so I can plug that 
directly into Darmok to fire the EGs.

It would be nice to be able use the 1130 with my synth without 
requiring the Minimoog/Polymoog for power. I doubt I'll make a panel 
just for that purpose, but maybe some day.

It's not quite as fun a controller as the theremin. But I can use it 
to trigger those Carl Palmer/Toccata type of sounds.