Midibox sid - keyboard "woody" upgrade

Alkex · August 20, 2009, 11:25pm

Hi All

Just finished making a wooden frame for my sid keyboard.

A lot of sanding and blisters but the efforts are rewarding

Thanks for looking

lucem · August 21, 2009, 1:34am

Aren’t the sides a bit too thick?

In all other means, beautiful build!

nebula · August 21, 2009, 2:10am

Gorgeous!

Matrix12x · August 21, 2009, 3:27am

nice

Alkex · August 21, 2009, 3:47am

Thanks for the comments!

The sides aka love handles are nice and chubby for a fatter sound

sineSurfer · August 21, 2009, 5:26am

it looks really great!

rosch · August 21, 2009, 5:30am

really awesome. very decent design!

how did you implement the keyboard?

nILS · August 21, 2009, 8:21am

How can wood sides be too thick? They can’t. Simple beautiful! Nice work ;D

puddingbrumsel · August 21, 2009, 10:41am

Fantastic wood work! What’s the lettering on the lower right on the plate?

clem · August 21, 2009, 11:17am

wanna have

Matrix12x · August 21, 2009, 11:23am

What keyboard did you use?

nebula · August 21, 2009, 12:38pm

Any internal or construction pics?

lucem · August 21, 2009, 12:41pm

Any internal or construction pics?

Really guys, you want him to take that beauty apart?

nebula · August 21, 2009, 1:41pm

Really guys, you want him to take that beauty apart?

Either that or insert a probe.

Smithy · August 23, 2009, 4:10pm

Any internal or construction pics?

Smithy · August 23, 2009, 4:17pm

construction pics?

Oh and:

http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,10928.msg84521.html

Alkex · August 23, 2009, 10:57pm

Thanks again for your kind words!

The keyboard if from an old ELKA synth. I rewired it’s keypads to a DIN module on a separate core which sends the midi to the SID core.

Here are a few videos of the process:

Debugging the midi keyboard:

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I accidently switched a couple wires on the DIN PINS so had to write a routine to correct it (easier than rewiring everything)

Staining the wood in my best shirt… Not recommended

And finally

The inside is pretty much the same mess and the images Smithy kindly linked us to above except i recently discovered the wonders of cable ties. Great to identify loose wires when tied in little bunches at the ports…

I Hope this inspires anybody for a wood design!

Cheers

Ps: puddingbrumsel, the bottom right says Smith it’s my signature - works in the ego department

Alex

cosmosuave · August 24, 2009, 8:00pm

Nice work!!! The end cheeks are no thicker than a Juno 6o looks great…

analogue_mo · September 11, 2009, 7:47pm

Well thanks a lot! Now I want to rebuild it all…

I must say, its what i wanted for me all along,

the sid in an analogue style encagement, its just perfect!

I just hope I can get some wood skills!

Thanks for sharing this beautifull machine with the rest of us!

Wilba · September 12, 2009, 11:43am

How did I miss this thread?

Awesome stuff, Alkex (as usual). Even better than the one that got broken.