[sdiy] DIY in the family

[Martin Fay]

Tom wrote:
>If you're doing digital (you did say MIDI) I'm not sure what you could
>do with multiple contacts that you couldn't do with one, except maybe
>some redundancy for a high-availability keyboard, with failover to the
>second keyboard in extreme situations like having an elephant step on
>the first one :-)

Yes, just the one set of contacts would be needed to feed a scanner.

>FWIW, even the duophonic Odyssey's 2- and 3-bus keyboards used only
>one bus for CV.

It's a long time since I've looked at Odyssey schematics. I wonder why
they felt the need to use multi-bus keyboards as it must have added
quite a bit to the cost?


Martin

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