Hi!
I am just starting to build my SID box, step B… Would be really nice with step C, but - money doesn’t come easy :(!!
I am the design type-of-guy. I just need to have a perfect design on the stuff I make… So I usually ends up with 20 sketches of the frontpanel before I am pleased… I do them by hand - isnt into the CAD stuff…
Anyway - I’m building the SID box (4 sids) in a 1U 19" rack box, and I figured, the common buttons I see on the midiboxes (I’m refering to the “radio” buttons) isn’t what I wanted, so I searched the web to find some I like, without any luck. I know - says more about me than the wide range of buttons to choose from in all the nice webshops 
hehe.
So I got this brilliant idea. I have a Roland E-500 keyboard I bought when it was released. And it has got some NICE buttons on it. But I didn’t want to canabalize that fine keyboard I spent 2000 dollars on back then, so I called Roland’s department here in Norway.
They told me I could get any buttons I wanted from their instruments… I just had to call the service-shop in Oslo and talk to a guy. I did, and it wasn’t expensive either!
Just a tip… If you like the buttons on the cool synth besides you and you want similar on your midibox, just call the manufacturer and they will probably help you out!
Cheers!
Hi!
I am just starting to build my SID box, step B… Would be really nice with step C, but - money doesn’t come easy :(!!
I am the design type-of-guy. I just need to have a perfect design on the stuff I make… So I usually ends up with 20 sketches of the frontpanel before I am pleased… I do them by hand - isnt into the CAD stuff…
Anyway - I’m building the SID box (4 sids) in a 1U 19" rack box, and I figured, the common buttons I see on the midiboxes (I’m refering to the “radio” buttons) isn’t what I wanted, so I searched the web to find some I like, without any luck. I know - says more about me than the wide range of buttons to choose from in all the nice webshops hehe.
So I got this brilliant idea. I have a Roland E-500 keyboard I bought when it was released. And it has got some NICE buttons on it. But I didn’t want to canabalize that fine keyboard I spent 2000 dollars on back then, so I called Roland’s department here in Norway.
They told me I could get any buttons I wanted from their instruments… I just had to call the service-shop in Oslo and talk to a guy. I did, and it wasn’t expensive either!
Just a tip… If you like the buttons on the cool synth besides you and you want similar on your midibox, just call the manufacturer and they will probably help you out!
Cheers!
So, you could get me.. let me count.. 25 TR-909 knobs for “nothing”.. I’ll be damned.
Bye, Moebius
ps me, If you can 
I might be even pay something for those..
So, you could get me.. let me count.. 25 TR-909 knobs for “nothing”.. I’ll be damned.
Bye, Moebius
ps me, If you can I might be even pay something for those..
OK, the TR-909 buttons they might not get you that easy! Sorry for writing a little bit unclear about this.
The guy meant - the buttons for the newer intstruments. he’ll be able to get me for a small price… After all - it’s a service-shop… not a museum… :) You could probably get older stuff too… maybe or maybe not… but it would cost…
sorry for being unclear about this…
Ingebret
OK, the TR-909 buttons they might not get you that easy! Sorry for writing a little bit unclear about this.
The guy meant - the buttons for the newer intstruments. he’ll be able to get me for a small price… After all - it’s a service-shop… not a museum… :) You could probably get older stuff too… maybe or maybe not… but it would cost…
sorry for being unclear about this…
Ingebret