MOTM

Ken, 
	You are the man.  HA HA.  I knew I bought those 200 Neutrik connectors for
something.  Now, let's see..... where I can get a good price on 200 lots of
bi-polar LEDs?
LH


> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
>  
> I came across something in my studio this weekend that I haven't thought
> about in years. But since tuning into the MOTM list, I've "met" so many
of
> you folks who have "LED fever" that this time it caught my eye. I thought
> I'd pass this along, so I unplugged it and dropped it in my pocket on the
> way to work this morning.
> 
> The attached JPEG is a photo of a little doodad that has been sticking
out
> of one of the jacks on my Korg MS-10 for twenty years or so. I made it
for
> free from parts lying around based on a mini-article by Craig Anderton
back
> in an old issue of Polyphony Magazine (which later became EM).
> 
> It is a CV/Signal monitor. Basically you just take a tri-color LED (they
> were pretty new at the time, very hot stuff) and solder it into a mono \ufffd"
> plug with a 560-ohm resistor in series with the tip as shown.
> (Green-Blue-Brown, 560, right? Don't have my Monday morning coffee yet).
> 
> The LED lights green for positive CVs, red for negative, and yellow for
> signal (actually the 'yellow' is just a result of the red and green
diodes
> flashing back and forth quickly... it starts to look yellow even at fast
LFO
> rates).
> 
> What you see in the photo is the one I built, very simple. I used
Letraset
> press type to label it and sprayed a little fixative on it. It's crooked
but
> has survived the test of time. I used acrylic paint to label color
swatches
> and label those, but the white paint seems to have rubbed off over the
> years. It looks worse in this magnified view than it does in real life.
> 
> So anyway, there you have it. Build at least one. Enjoy! Now you have a
> portable fancy LED that you can stick anywhere in your rig! Has Paul come
> out with a new module and didn't give you that tri-color LED that you
> wanted? Just plug one in! Amaze the family!