does anyone make their own keyboards?

[content]

could you refer me to a good site for beginners? such as learning how to read schematics etc.

appreciated

[emef]

i once made a keyboard stop working altogether when it wouldnt work properly....but thats not the same really.

[Dialect]

I'm very interested in this subject, heres a site i found! I've started with simple projects like just doing my own mods to cheap analogues that are lying around. A guy i was speaking to on email had made his own MS-20/Moog hybrid, an SH-101 with oberhiem filter i think he said and a 909 and 606 drum machine. All using schematics from the net. built into alloy rack mount boxes controled with Kentons (no actual keyboards as such)


http://web.syr.edu/~rsholmes/music/synth/diy.html

good luck with your synth building!

[lo_fi]

hmm keyboard - no.... but few days ago i have build a Theremin and its working :)
its very easy. so if you want to build it, there you go:

http://lo_fi.fm.interia.pl/simple-dig%20poprawka.gif

i couldnt get C1, C2 with the right capacity (51pF) so i have used 47pF but it seems to be fine.


we dont need no education
we dont need no thought control

[Ruben A]

I ´m in contact with a guy who make a lot of his own stuff.. great stuff!!! With popular filters, VCA´s, VCO´s blabla taken from the classic synths!!! I bought the GOTHAR III (the third synth he build...). Really makes some crazy stuff..!! Also made some analogue drummachines, sequencers (got a deal for a zwiss firm... should program the eproms..) and so on.

hehe..

Must show you some pics one day.... they are awesome!!
Now he´s just finished a module-synth - took a half year.

[bitch one]

ha - emef, i did exactly the same thing, broke my pro one completely when it was only slightly broken, just by taking it to bits and forgetting how to put it back, d-oh. but i recently met someone who says he can fix it. in fact he gave me a modified 606 the other day for my birthday (on loan), it has 9 extra knobs, pitch and decay for bass, filter for snare and hats etc. nice toy. he reckons it's pretty easy to do this sort of thing, if you know how to weild a soldering iron.

[JE:5]

I photocopied a whole book by R.A.Penfold in the university library on how to build your own analogue synth but I can't find it anymore :( It looked quite good because it told you how to make each module separately so you could have as many oscillators and LFO's as you wanted. It also told you how to make a basic analogue 16 step sequencer as well.

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[mrhospital]

I know a couple of people who got hold of these keyboards at a reasonable price, I saw one on ebay recently for about £150. They are built from kits and the instructions were printed in "Electronics Today International". It might be worth having a search.

[piscaries]

i went through this phase.. i think we all do, but i also think we never grow out of it. i don't know if you want to build your own keyboard, or just a synth.. but building a modular synth and using a controller keyboard for it would probably be more cost effective, and give you more expandablilty options. for good, cheap, diy modular kits, visit: http://www.paia.com, and another good starting point is: http://www.synth.clara.net/beginners.html

hope this helps.
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[solque]

Originally posted by emef
i once made a keyboard stop working altogether when it wouldnt work properly....but thats not the same really.


you too they should write something about power supply on the front of the thing :)

mm the smell of burning board