Analogue-sequencer

Jez Creek wrote:
> Thanks,
> For those who don't know, at RMI's recnt gigs there have been little
> gooseneck lamps attached to their gear.
> (see http://www.modulator-esp.co.uk/images/photos/misc/HJ4/rmi/02.jpg
> for an example)
> I thought it looked like they were connected to the midi outs of the
> equipment and that they looked really useful. I looked high and low
> before asking Duncan where he got them and had a sneeky feeling he
> might have made them himself.
> So would it be possible to do this with midi?
> Cheers
> Jez
>
> Duncan wrote
>
> OT- jez- rather a convoluted route to answer a simple question, but
> here goes: the little lights are from a computer shop (e.g. maplin), &
> come with a USB plug on them.
> it's a tricky operation, but you can replace the USB plug with an XLR
> & then add a corresponding socket to the back of y'r controller
> keyboard. find the 5V regulator & take a feed off that via a
> several-hundred-ohm resistor. the hard part is trimming back the
> spring-steel goosenecky stuff to get at the wires inside.
> emu saw fit to provide a bnc connector on the command stations for
> such purposes- I wonder if colin could be persuaded to add one to the
> p3..?

I had the idea of adding one of those "mixer lights" to my p3. I asked Colin 
about the posibilities, but he was not very enthusiastic.

:-)

Gert van Santen
www.waveworld.tv