Midified Laukhuff Manuals

[Ed]

Last weeks, I midified 3 Laukhuff manuals and a Pedal board I got from an old organ.

I built a midi controller using the Midibox project (http://www.midibox.org). I used one Core32 module and 7 DIN modules.

Below some pictures. Next steps are designing and building my new console.

A contact bar from one of the manuals with new wires:


One of the re-wired manuals:


The pedalboard with a DIN module:


The midibox midicontroller:



The console, protoype II



I will keep you updated with the progress of my project.


Best regards,
Edwin

[Eric Sagmuller]

Last weeks, I midified 3 Laukhuff manuals and a Pedal board I got from an old organ.

I built a midi controller using the Midibox project (http://www.midibox.org). I used one Core32 module and 7 DIN modules.

Best regards,
Edwin

Cool, a new core module! I'm using two of the original ones to use 8 DIN's. When I go to 3 manuals I may replace with the new core. The kits are so cheap to purchase it's no big deal.

Eric

[Ed]

Cool, a new core module! I'm using two of the original ones to use 8 DIN's. When I go to 3 manuals I may replace with the new core. The kits are so cheap to purchase it's no big deal.

With the new Core32 it is possible to connect up to 32 DIN modules, so this will give you 32 x 32 = 1024 inputs.
For now, I only use 7 DIN's (2 for each manual and 1 for the Pedal board) and 3 analog inputs to control the two swell pedals and a pot for the general volume (which I hope is controllable in Hauptwerk v4 with midi events ).

What I like about Midibox is it's modularity. It is easy to expand a single Core module to control outputs, LCD's and much more.

Edwin

[Eric Sagmuller]

What I like about Midibox is it's modularity. It is easy to expand a single Core module to control outputs, LCD's and much more.

Edwin

Yeah I like that too. I had a horrible time figuring out how to program it though. Shows my weakness when it comes to programming. I tried to document it for myself so hopefully when I need to do it again ( I don't have my stop tabs connected yet either) it'll come back easily.Thinking back though part of the problem was some glitch with my computer when it came to running active perl. Fortunately my boss is an IT guy, and another guy from Miditzer was very helpful.

Eric

[pat17]

Very nice job, Edwin!

By the way, as Laukhuff is primarily an organ builder (and if not mistaken one of the largest ones in Germany), is it doing any difference on the keys touch? Do you get a similar feeling than with any Midi keyboard, or is it different - closer to a real pipe organ?

[Ed]

Very nice job, Edwin!

By the way, as Laukhuff is primarily an organ builder (and if not mistaken one of the largest ones in Germany), is it doing any difference on the keys touch? Do you get a similar feeling than with any Midi keyboard, or is it different - closer to a real pipe organ?

Thanks!

The feeling is different than with a regular Midi keyboard, becasue of the wooden keys. However, the top material is a 'plastic' imititation of bone or ivory. The keyboards I have do not have simulated tracker action, I think because they're 30-40 years old. To my opinion, these keyboards play really well!

Laukhuff builds organs, but sells organ parts as well. i.e. manuals and pedal boards: http://www.laukhuff.de/images/stories/d ... alog/9.pdf

Edwin