I'm converting an old Cantor 3-manual organ console (probably 30 years) for our church. I have stripped all the old stuff, and I'm now trying to figure out what parts I need to rebuild the organ.
We will have two keyboards and pedal, with 44 draw stops, which we will make and wire ourselves.
However, I'm not sure what to do with the keyboards. It looks like they are old Fatar keyboards, but don't yet have the diode matrix and typical connectors. Instead, I have these two 34-pin flat cable connectors (pictures below) that I don't know what to do with. I haven't been able to find any MIDI boards or extensions that support these connectors.
I intend to use Roman Sowa's MIDI components (which I have used before and am quite happy with). He has this BBS-1K extension board, which takes 64 wires and converts it to an 8x8 matrix, which can then be connected to the MIDI128 controller.
I'm not exactly an electronics whiz, though I have successfully soldered my own connections before.
Could it be as simple as removing the 34-pin connector, splitting the existing cable and putting two 16-pin connectors on it instead, and then plugging it into the BBS-1K?
We will have two keyboards and pedal, with 44 draw stops, which we will make and wire ourselves.
However, I'm not sure what to do with the keyboards. It looks like they are old Fatar keyboards, but don't yet have the diode matrix and typical connectors. Instead, I have these two 34-pin flat cable connectors (pictures below) that I don't know what to do with. I haven't been able to find any MIDI boards or extensions that support these connectors.
I intend to use Roman Sowa's MIDI components (which I have used before and am quite happy with). He has this BBS-1K extension board, which takes 64 wires and converts it to an 8x8 matrix, which can then be connected to the MIDI128 controller.
I'm not exactly an electronics whiz, though I have successfully soldered my own connections before.
Could it be as simple as removing the 34-pin connector, splitting the existing cable and putting two 16-pin connectors on it instead, and then plugging it into the BBS-1K?