Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:55 pm
My latest organproject is almost finished. It used to be an ISA Classic organ, model Laudate, which I stripped and MIDIfied.
Pedal and manual contacts are still original. First I midified the manual contact with original transistor-matrix. It worked, untill I found out that specific combinations of keypress, tones began to fall out. Therefore I had to renew the scan-matrix again.
PC (i7-4930K) and amplifier (Crown PA) are placed in the lower cabinet, where I can reach the PA and Focusrite soundcard via the front (behind tiltable lid.
Behind the manuals a 23" Dell touchscreen is installed, which can be lifted manually using a counterweight, so it rises above the console. Then first the music stand needs to be folded down backwards. Then a top lid op de console can be folded up (including the downfolded music stand) backwards. And finally the 23" Dell touchscreen can be pulled up. This screen is only used for maintaining Hauptwerk and PC or showing sheetmusic. In the future I hope to have two toe pistons to control the turning of the pages.
Playing the organ this big screen is not needed. Between the manuals and musicstand there are 3 USB 7" Touchscreens on which I run DoMidi to control Haupwerk, loading and stops. For now I only made DoMidi layouts for ZurekV5 and Anloo.
The original organ bench was squeaking so disassembeld it to glue it again. De organ bench in the pictures is an original Metzler organbench which looks great with this organ.
Here some pictures of the development and the result...
The original ISA Classic Laudate organ with black plastic stops:
MIDIfied contacts for pedalboard:
MIDIfied swell:
First MIDIfication of orignal transistor PCB for the manuals. Didn't appear to work in the end so I could renew it all again:
MIDIfication of 32 (very cheap: $0,60 a piece) thumbpistons:
Homemade monitor-elevator with 2 telescopic slides:
The upper cabinet:
Open console with first electroncs and the monitor-lift installed. The monitor-lift works with a counterweight that is located in the lower cabinet of the organ. The lift is controlled manually.
The upper cabinet paintedbrushed with lighted on/off switches and first 7" touchscreen:
The console as it is now. The organ is started en can be played without the need of the bigger Dell touchscreen, which is hidden in the organ behind the manuls:
Name tags are not yet there:
When a stop is touched it lighted up, but too bad thats not shown in these pictures:
On/off switched: red = PC, green = pedal light, 3x yellow = 1.power PC, 2 power main monitor, 3 power amplifier:
Tiltable music stand:
Dell 23" touchscreen monitor which rises above the console. It is only used for maintaining Hauptwerk and the PC or for displaying sheetmusic:
DeLock USB 3.0 + headphone connectors:
LED pedal light:
Via tiltable lid you get access to soundcard and amplifier:
Pedal and manual contacts are still original. First I midified the manual contact with original transistor-matrix. It worked, untill I found out that specific combinations of keypress, tones began to fall out. Therefore I had to renew the scan-matrix again.
PC (i7-4930K) and amplifier (Crown PA) are placed in the lower cabinet, where I can reach the PA and Focusrite soundcard via the front (behind tiltable lid.
Behind the manuals a 23" Dell touchscreen is installed, which can be lifted manually using a counterweight, so it rises above the console. Then first the music stand needs to be folded down backwards. Then a top lid op de console can be folded up (including the downfolded music stand) backwards. And finally the 23" Dell touchscreen can be pulled up. This screen is only used for maintaining Hauptwerk and PC or showing sheetmusic. In the future I hope to have two toe pistons to control the turning of the pages.
Playing the organ this big screen is not needed. Between the manuals and musicstand there are 3 USB 7" Touchscreens on which I run DoMidi to control Haupwerk, loading and stops. For now I only made DoMidi layouts for ZurekV5 and Anloo.
The original organ bench was squeaking so disassembeld it to glue it again. De organ bench in the pictures is an original Metzler organbench which looks great with this organ.
Here some pictures of the development and the result...
The original ISA Classic Laudate organ with black plastic stops:
MIDIfied contacts for pedalboard:
MIDIfied swell:
First MIDIfication of orignal transistor PCB for the manuals. Didn't appear to work in the end so I could renew it all again:
MIDIfication of 32 (very cheap: $0,60 a piece) thumbpistons:
Homemade monitor-elevator with 2 telescopic slides:
The upper cabinet:
Open console with first electroncs and the monitor-lift installed. The monitor-lift works with a counterweight that is located in the lower cabinet of the organ. The lift is controlled manually.
The upper cabinet paintedbrushed with lighted on/off switches and first 7" touchscreen:
The console as it is now. The organ is started en can be played without the need of the bigger Dell touchscreen, which is hidden in the organ behind the manuls:
Name tags are not yet there:
When a stop is touched it lighted up, but too bad thats not shown in these pictures:
On/off switched: red = PC, green = pedal light, 3x yellow = 1.power PC, 2 power main monitor, 3 power amplifier:
Tiltable music stand:
Dell 23" touchscreen monitor which rises above the console. It is only used for maintaining Hauptwerk and the PC or for displaying sheetmusic:
DeLock USB 3.0 + headphone connectors:
LED pedal light:
Via tiltable lid you get access to soundcard and amplifier:
