Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:55 am
Hi Tom,
I also have done several pedal board conversions and find that the hard part is the making of the frame to hold the switches and the placement of the switches and the magnets. Have tried lots of ways that did not work well and a few which have. Matching the reed switch and the magnets is also a challenge as is placing the magnet with respect to the switch for best operation.
If I have reeds and magnets already in place on the donor organ, I leave them alone and just rewire the switches into four groups of 8 switches. Sometime I need to add diodes, sometimes they are already there. I have made a PCB to help with that process. I use the Highly Liquid CPU encoder for that job. The HL-CPU is $49.99 but it must be programmed via MIDI and the learning curve is fairly steep but I can probably help with that too.
If you want to use the Midi Boutique mpc32xrs and have 32 switches already installed, they have a bo34 (under accessories) which allows you to put the wires in order with out soldering. If you do not have switches the kit of switches and the wire loom of reed switches plus the encoder is available for about €140.00 and with the exchange to $ is about 15% higher. Good way to go if you are short on time and/or knowledge.
Please let me know if I can help. My phone number is on my website too.
Best regards,
Thomas
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