Monome keyboard

Juan Aguilar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0000

If you asked [David Phipps] whether he prefers Monomes or traditional keyboards, he might ask you “why not have both?” We don’t presume to speak for him, but that’s what we think he’d say based on his Monome-keyboard combination, which puts a Monome right in the keyboard’s console, giving the user the best of both worlds.

[Phipps] calls his device The Peaceblaster (also the name of his album), and it is constructed from a 5-octave Fatar keybed, MKE electronic components, and a Doepfer PKE for the faders and knobs. Everything is available via USB and MIDI out. The project is as yet unfinished, and he hopes to fit a mac mini into the works. If he succeeds, this will be one of the most elegant, powerful and fun keyboards we’ve seen in quite some time.

TB-303 teardown

Juan Aguilar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:36:00 +0000

Flickr member and owner of awesome stuff [Firegroove] brought us a teardown of a Roland TR-909 drum machine before, and now he brings us a new photoset of a TB-303 synth teardown. The machines comprise two thirds of the holy trinity of 80′s electronic music machines, so look after the break for more photos.

Here we see the main board with several knobs and switches still attached.

This is the underside of the board. Enjoy this photoset, because getting your hands on a TR-303 is nearly impossible. Still, that doesn’t mean you have to live a 303-free existence. Check out [Ladyada]‘s TR-303 clone, the x0xb0x. You can purchase the DIY board from the site and get your synth-on now.

[via Matrixsynth ]

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Monome keyboard

TB-303 teardown