[sdiy] DCO and Keyboards old & new

[cynthia.webster at gte.net]

Hi Phil!

> At last weeks SciSound meeting in Venice, CA i saw Cynthia 
Webster's ARIES
> based Keyboard.
> 
> Now as i am on record as not being an aficionado of 
non-digital keyboards, i
> must admit i liked it very much.

I just saw this eBay deal on an Alpha Synturi digital keyboard 
that was originally designed to interface with an Apple ][ 
computer, and imagine that it would be fairly easy to hook it up 
to your digital oscillators,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9090592
50

Your FM synthesis DCO card hooked-up to your laptop was 
indeed impressive in the range of sounds that it was capable 
of!  And that was a completely filterless way of creating those 
fabulous timbres...

I cannot wait to try running your DCO through the Modcan 
Moogy Low Pass VCF at the next Los Angleles SciSound 
meeting!

This also reminds me to contact Tim and ask him to bring his 
Urban Synth Stick controller next time too!

I'm pretty happy with my Aries Keyboards, but may eventually 
put an Arrick Keyboard under it to have some midi there as 
well.  Of course, then I'll want to put a fully weighted polyphonic 
keyboard under that, and well, maybe I can install a chain hoist 
to suspend all of this over a Bosendorf eventually? 
(Note to Self: Buy Lottery Tickets)... LOL!

In the meantime I have a picture of my rig in progress on the 
Yahoo Modcan site here (watch for wrap around in this 
incredibly long URL)  This picture is at least a month old and I 
now have beautiful anodized panels filling my cabinet where 
those inkjet printed module prototypes were.  
it is time for another cabinet!  

When I have some more time I hope to assemble the second 
Aries keyboard kit that I have here...

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/modcan/vwp?.dir=/&.src
=gr&.dnm=My+Rig+with+an+Aries+Keyboard.jpg&.view=t&.don
e=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/modcan/lst%3f%
26.dir=/%26.src=gr%26.view=t

See you at the next Los Angeles SciSound meeting near 
Venice Beach Thursday Night October 3rd!  Anyone interested 
in meeting details is welcome to contact me.

Ciao!

Cynthia

> At last weeks SciSound meeting in Venice, CA i saw Cynthia 
Webster's ARIES
> based Keyboard.

> I think the cabinetry was perhaps the most compelling 
characteristic as it
> was "heavy" (i lugged it).  After all the Plastic keyboards i use 
(i.e.
> Roland A-33) it was interesting to work with a keyboard that 
seemed so
> "substantial".  By this i mean it was not going to move if you 
didn't intend
> to lift and move it on purpose it won't go anywhere.  If you 
dropped your
> patch cord on the floor reaching down to get it is not going to 
shift or
> disturb this monster in anyway.  Also the ARIES design is 
quite good as is
> and has with opportunity for a DIY'er to make it even better 
(i.e.
> polystyrene hold cap) or perhaps, more individually 
appropriate.
> 
> Now i "rack" my keyboards so i am not going to emulate this 
kind of cabinet
> for my keyboards but it was a notably different "experience" 
and part of an
> interesting Synth.
> 
> regards,
> p
> 
> 
> 
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