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it's alive........ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-03 by cuari7

A record-breaking 177 posts on this forum last month. Wow.
Lots of enthusiasm from CS owners.

Here's something else to be discussed, which might sound off-topic, 
but believe me, it's definitely related:

Recently got a Prophet 8. Sounds great, but boy, what a crappy little 
keyboard it has! 
Because I am out of my mind, I removed the keybooard, hoping to 
replace it with a fully-weighed (hammer-action) Fatar I have (5 
octaves salvaged from an old, nonfunctional SL-990). To my dismay, 
the KB panel (where the key contacts are)on the P8 is slightly 
shorter (because the keys are actually smaller!), so I had to use the 
innards of another KB (sorry, M-Audio....) and play it through MIDI. 
Needles to say, the initial result looks like specimens on an autopsy 
table (bloody mess... had to fill out a death certificate for the 
warranty, of course!), but I am hoping that a little bit of carpentry 
skills and good-quality timber will turn it into a worthy adversary 
of its Yamaha cousin. I mean, shit, it's gonna be heavy, and sounds 
awesome. Only difference is that pressure sensitivity is monophonic 
(well, not the only difference, of course! you know the other obvious 
ones....).  It's kinda' like a Prophet T8, I guess...

Any other "creative" (read demented) projects from any of you, guys?

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