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(so far listed 44 projects in no particular order)
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Irwin
Arnstein - USA
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Old
organ console converted to MIDI for use with Hauptwerk virtual organ by
Crumhorn Labs
using hwce-bundle#3
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An
old Reisner organ console was entirely restored and MIDI-fied by |
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Claude
Oudet - France
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Smal
pipe organ with additional MIDI control system for controlling Hauptwerk
virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs and Archive Module 201 by Ahlborn
using hwce-based custom system with airpressure inputs |
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An
extremely original approach to converting key events to MIDI events without
any key contacts, invented by Mr. Caude Oudet. For keeping the pipe
organ manuals and pedalboard intact, instead of key contacts, airpressure
transducers were used, with input ports attached to air canals
(French:gravures) using flexible plastic tube. A set of pressure
transducers by German manufacturer Sensor
Technics GmbH was used for this purpose. The credits for this original project (after Mr. Oudet's e-mail) go to:
to Mr. Andreas Ladach at Instrumente LADACH in Germany who had
this small used organ available for us |
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Mark
Williams - USA
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs using hwce bundle#3
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The following notes about this project were supplied by Mark Williams. We do encourage our customers to send us project descriptions for posting them here together with original photo materials. (MGB)
This is a 3-manual Hauptwerk organ designed and constructed by Mark K. Williams of Savannah, Georgia (USA) for his home. The organ utilizes a duo-core PC with 8GB RAM and WinXP64. MIDI interface hardware is from Largonet's MIDI Gadgets Boutique of Bulgaria (really nice boards). The main goal in the design and construction of the organ was to provide a replica of the 67-rank Harrison and Harrison that Williams plays at Christ Church Anglican as the parish's Organist/Choirmaster. Therefore, Mark utilized Oberwerk as the best program from which he could choose and arrange stops that best mimicked the Harrison and Harrison. Williams also chose Dr. Yves Petit-Clerc's Oberwerk (Milan Digital Audio) for the simplicity of the application's voicing controls for establishing balance within and between divisions and for its ability to employ treble ascendancy to the voicing process. In addition, Williams copied the ergonomic design of the Harrison and Harrison console carefully--regarding bench height, height from pedals to bench, pedals to keyboards, and keyboards to the music desk. "The Harrison and Harrison console on which I play every day is the single most comfortable console on which I have played. I can play for several hours at a time with only a couple of breaks for a stretch and a walk around without any serious discomfort," says Williams. "So I took on the task of copying the ergonomics of the church console so that I could enjoy the nearly stress-free playing that I do at Christ Church as well as enjoy little to no transference difficulties when moving between the two consoles." The
secondary goal was to create an instrument that looked as good as it sounded
and sounded as good as it looked. Therefore Williams employed two hi-end
Sony The third goal was to convince his lovely wife, Tina (who is a lyric soprano and runs a large voice studio), that the instrument would fit into and look nice in the decor of their historic home in Savannah. Once Mark presented a photo of the case of the Bosch-Schnitger / Saint Nicolaas Kerk (Netherlands) organ to her, along with some CADD drawings of their living room space to show her that their grand piano and the newly proposed organ would indeed fit into one end of the room comfortably, she gave the project a green light. Construction was begun in June of 2007 and voicing completed in March of 2008. The pipes are non-working. Mark Williams may be contacted at: williams4950(at)bellsouth(point)net
for comments or inquiries. |
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Brett
Milan - USA
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs using hwlcd2
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This
organ console produced by Hoppe & Associates |
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Hans
Vinckers - Netherlands
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MIDI
accordion using mbe2
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One
more accordion turned to MIDI using mbe2. Hans succeeded to install
everything so that the original functionality was kept intact.
The top picture shows the instriment before conversion. the bottom one shows it after... The full story can be found on Hans' web log. |
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Andrew
van der Veen - Netherlands
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Pedalboard
of organ console using mpc32xr
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Andrew
is currently building his console from scratch. On the first stage he
installed mpc32xr MIDI encoder in the pedalboard, the following
steps will be replacing the two MIDI-keyboards for oroginal 3-manual organ
keyboard, adding real organ stop tablets, and installing the 3 original
Swell/Crescendo pedals, all of them converted to MIDI.
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Attila
Simonfalvi - Hungary
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Pedaboard
of organ console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs using mpc40x
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Attila built full organ console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ using various MIDI equipment. For the pedalboard he got an mpc40x. More
detailed description of this project can be found in
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Kees
Maat - Netherlands
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MIDI
accordion using mbe2
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An
Hohner Student IV accordion was equipped by Kees Maat with mbe2
MIDI encoder and wireless MIDI and audio transmitters. |
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Lee
Brindle - Australia
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Live
MIDI Control using mce2440
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Originally
designed and built Stage MIDI control surface.
Photo courtesy of Lee Brindle. |
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Thorben
Ribbert - Germany
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Pedalboard
part of DIY MIDI-organ console using mpc40x
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A
DIY organ console for home practicing built by young German organ player.
He is planning gradually adding of up to 4 manuals on top of the gear,
gettng closer to real big organ. |
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Utenzil
- USA
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Guitron
- custom designed guitar-like MIDI controller
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This
controller was designed under original concept by Utenzil. |
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Customer
- Italy
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Organ
pedalboard using mpc40x
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New-built
pedalboard for future use with Hammond MIDI-clone.
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Sebastiaan
Sap - Netherlands
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Organ
console for controlling j-organ
by Sven Meier
using hwce bundle#3 |
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Sebastiaan
revived an 26 year old analog Johannus Opus 6 console installing hwce
bundle#3 in it. Two manuals, pedalboard and stops for controlling
j-organ virtual
organ software by Sven Meier.
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Bob
Collins - USA
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs
using hwce bundle#3 |
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A
old Conn Classic model 825 organ console for MIDI entirely redesigned
and rebuilt for using with Hauptwerk. |
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Graham
Harrison - England
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Organ
console for controlling j-organ
by Sven Meier
using 3xmpc64xr, mpc40x and mkc-x |
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Organ
console from old analog organ rebuilt and equipped with MIDI encoders.
3-manuals, Pedalboard, Swell-pedal and stops for controlling j-organ
virtual organ software by Sven Meier.
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David
Tiefenbrunn - USA
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"Big
Piano" project
using mkc-x |
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Feet-operated
4-octave MIDI keyboard.
Original project site with more and larger photos is here. |
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Simon
Geertsema - New Zealand
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs
using hwce bundle#2 |
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Organ
console with two manuals, pedalboard and stops, built and equipped for
controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ.
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Al
Morse - USA
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Encoding drawknobs in organ console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual
organ by Crumhorn
Labs
using mkc-MG |
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An
old Schober organ console converted to MIDI for controlling Hauptwerk
virtual organ. mkc-MG was used for MIDI-encoding the organ stops.
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Neil
Craig - England
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs
using hwce |
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An
old Johannus organ console converted to MIDI for controlling Hauptwerk
virtual organ.
All conversion steps were described in author's blog. |
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James
Willans - England
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Organ
console for controlling Hauptwerk virtual organ by Crumhorn
Labs
using hwce, 4xKeyMux64 and psa12x6 |
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An
old Wyvern Two-manual organ console with pedalboard, stops and continuous
controls console was converted to MIDI for controlling Hauptwerk virtual
organ. |
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J.S.
- Germany
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Full
organ system using custom-designed Master/Slave MIDI console encoder plus
a number of custom-designed peripheral/driver boards and a number of mdec64
br units
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The
classical church organ of St. Lucas church in Munich, Germany
was equipped with Midi system so a new
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J.S.-
Germany
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Full
organ system using custom-designed on Master/Slave MIDI console encoder
plus a number of custom-designed peripheral/driver boards and a set of
custom designed user-programmable MIDI decoders
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We
are proud to announce that probably the biggest (1500 pipes!) private
organ in Europe, built in a office facility in Munich was equipped
with custom system made by us. The opening took place on 21st of April
2006 (lower photo) and the concert was held twice due to great interest
and limited space of 250 seats.
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Paolo
Airasca - Italy
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Organ
system using mscan, sd144, mdec64bx, msd
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The great organ named Piccolo Bach was built by Italian organ builder Paolo Airasca. It includes mscan-standard encoder, sd144 LED control uint, few of mdec64bx decoders and msd decoder for Swell control. The console specification can be downloaded from here. |
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Piccolo
Bach's Transposer control panel.
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Piccolo
Bach's pedal board, Swell and Crescendo pedals and toe pistons.
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Piccolo
Bach's left side controls. Here are the Presets memory control, Stop
tablets and Swell/Crescendo LED bars.
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Piccolo
Bach's right side controls. Here are the Transposer control, Stop
tablets and Swell/Crescendo LED bars.
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Claudio
Zulian - Italy
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B4
organ console using b4ce1
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Claudio
revived an old Nord Electro dual keyboard by installing an b4ce1
encoder in it. The result was nice B3-like organ console, capable to control
the famous B4 software by Native Instruments. The full set of B3 drawbars
and the other switch controls can be easy seen on these pictures.
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Kees
Kooijman - Netherlands
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B4
organ mini-console using b4ce1
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Another
masterpiece crafted by Hammond-lover. A single-keyboard, single-drawbar
set B3-clonning based on b4ce1 encoder.
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The
9-drawbar assembly and control switches plus two continuous controls (Volume
and Drive) can be seen here.
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The
rest of continuous controls (Amp, Rotator, Microphone) which are rarely
used, can still be adjusted by screwdriver.
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Inside
the console. b4ce1 unit can be seen in centre.
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Lynn
Walls - USA
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Hammond
MIDI pedalboard using mkc128
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Lynn
Walls took a very nice original Hammond pedal set and turned it into MIDI
instrument for using it as part of home-built SCPOP-based organ. An mkc128
(custom) encoder did the job.
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Ray
Cutler - United Kingdom
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B4
control box usnig b4ce1
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Ray used b4ce1 unit to build an B4 control box. He is actually using only the controls part of b4ce1. The rest is done by his dual-manual keyboard. Now he enjoys his B4-based home organ. |
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Robert
Lee - United Kingdom
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Organ
pedalboard using mpc40
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Robert
crafted few sets of very nice MIDI pedal boards of various geometry using
several mpc40 units.
The first of them is pictured here. |
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Wolfgang
Deffner - Germany
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B4
mini-console using b4ce1
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Still another perfect B3-mini-clone crafted by Wolfgang Deffner.Three drawbar sets, single keyboard, control switches and potentiometers - all scanned by b4ce1 unit (seen at the far left side). |
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Jude
Kelley - USA
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Converting
Hammond B3 organ to B4 using b4ce1
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An
real Hammond B3 turned into B4 using b4ce1 |
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James
Whitemyer - USA
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Hybrid
organ system using mpc64xr, mpc40x
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An hybrid organ, built by James Whitemyer including three generations of tone-producing hardware - pipes (7 ranks & 13-note chime), analog electronic sounds, and digital synthesizers, whith mpc64xr and mpc40x MIDI encoders (top photo), scanning one of organ manuals and pedalboard. |
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Martin
Bournival - Canada
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B4
organ console using mkc-mg
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An
functional replica of Hammond organ for controlling B4 software by Native
Instruments, using two generic MIDI keyboard controllers, self-built pedalboard
and home-built wooden stand.
An mkc-mg was used for scanning the pedalboard. Martin's site |
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Chris
Bruce - England
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Organ
system using mpc64xr, mdec64ddp
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Small
single-manual, but real pipe organ for home use. The interface
between the manual and pipe chest is MIDI. This allowis both using the
keyboard as generic MIDI keyboard controller, as well as controlling
pipes from external MIDI controllers/sequencers. |
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Christopher
Bauder - Germany
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"Musical
ladder" project using mkcv64cs
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Quite unusual MIDI device built by Christopher: MIDI Ladder.The Ladder can be used for musical performance as well as for controlling multimedia systems. An mkcv64 unit was used in this project. |
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Giuseppe
Chiriatti - Italy
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B4
console using b4ce1, bke-CZ
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"Santi Bailor 2" - another Hammond clonning masterpiece. The "Santi Bailor" instrument - originally developed by Claudio Zulian (Italy) - was replicated by Giuseppe, using b4ce1 and bke-cz (custom unit designed for Claudio Zulian). |
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Ilone
Bloemen - Netherlands
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"Remini"
game using mkcv64cs
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Two young designers Ilone Bloemen and Shirley Clever from Netherlands created a new multi-cultural, multi-media game called Remini. They implemented few of our products (MIDI encoders and decoders) in this installation. More information on Remini can be found on its original site: |
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John
Ogden - Australia
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Hauptwerk
organ console using HWce,KeyMux64,mdec64br,mdec80br etc.
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A very passionate and patient man built full organ console for controlling the famous Hauptwerk virtual organ by Martin Dyde. The console has two manuals, pedalboards, motorized stops, lights etc. |
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Jurgen
(Fusel) Berning - Germany
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Converting
Hammond B3 clone to B4 using b4ce1
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An
blues-man with very strong engineering skills built an black Hammong.
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Jurgen
Berning and Holger Koch- Germany
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Building
Hammond B3/B4 clone using b4ce1
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Another
black Hammond clone built by Jurgen and his cousin Holger. This time they
used the synth part of Roland VK7 plus two waterfall-style keyboard from
Doepfer installed their originally-built wooden console, adding an
b4ce1 encoder to scan manuals. They called the instrument BeKo.
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Mathijs
Stegink - Netherlands
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"binary
rain" project using mdec64br, mpc40
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This
preformance designer and artist does unusual art projects. Initially
he designed an musical coat called "de Vechtjas" using an
mpc40 unit. Mathijs'
site:
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Nick
Ware - England
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organ pedalboard using mpc40x
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Nick wanted to add pedalboard to his small Shaftoe single-manual, 4-stops pipe organ. He wanted to use the pedalboard for controlling an additional Roland D110 synth, loaded with pipe organ sounds, thus adding more stops. For this purpose he purchased an old pedalboard, refinished it and installed an mpc40x in it. |
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Martin
Greenwood - England
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Hauptwerk console using HWce, KeyMux64
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Martin
built his Hauptwerk
console using standard 3-manual organ keyboard stack with pistons. He
implemented in this console HWce MIDI encoder and 4 KeyMux64
key multiplexers.
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Robert
(Bob) Hunt - USA
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MIDI-controlled piano player using mdec64br
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Bob designed his own MIDI decoders with heavy duty drivers, using customized mdec64br microcontroller chips. These decoders were implemented for turning an pneumatic Mason & Hamlin Ampico B player piano into MIDI controllable player piano. Originally playing pieces from piano rolls, now the instrument can be played from PC under MIDI control using WindPlay software by Richard Brandle. The first picture shows the instrument prior to installation of MIDI interface. The second one shows the instrument after installation. The last picture shows the MIDI decoders themselves (one of them is also seen on second picture as green object). More pictures of Bob's work can fbe found on his page on e-Valves site. E-Valves
site: http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/e-valves.htm
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Jan van der Loss - Netherlands
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organ system using mpc64xr and mdec64dd-n
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The
old church organ built 1924 in Vermeulen, Netherlands was equipped by
Jan
with MIDI interface, but shortly after this the church was decommissioned. Currently the facility is rented by Dutch National Theatre (Het Nationale Toneel) to be used as stage for thier performance of the 2000 years old Greek Play called Oresteia (458 B.C.). The performance will take place between March 31st and May 27th, 2006. The organ itself is integrated in this performance. There are two consoles - the main one and the remote one used for controlling the organ during theatre performances. The theater's site can be visited here: http://www.oresteia.nl/index.html The pictures from stage preparations can be seen here: http://www.oresteia.nl/index_dagboek.html |
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To
our valued customers: If you have pictures of your MIDI gear based
on our units, please send us some.
We'd be happy to put some of them in this gallery. |
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