I am excited to share ongoing progress with my latest Hauptwerk project. Our 1935 Kilgen at Second Presbyterian, Portsmouth, OH is undergoing much needed but major renovations. It is currently with the team of Peebles Herzog, undergoing a complete electrical system overhaul, and major restoration to the wind system/bottom-boards/leathers. We are lookiung forward to having "Ma-Kilgen" back some time in the fall.
Meanwhile, we are incredibly lucky to have received a two-manual wicks console, and I just completed phase 1 of our summer Hauptwerk project. Using a pair of arduino boards, I have the console playing as a MIDI console. I used an arduino MEGA to scan the swell, great, pedals (supplied pre-wired 12x6 matrix) and combination system (8x6 matrix). And an arduino Uno to scan the choir expression (a potentiometer) and the swell expression mechanism (a series of 8 reed switches, in matrix configuration, which I had not encountered before).
I am very very grateful to @larason2 and and his arduino documentation which got me over the learning curve. https://projecthub.arduino.cc/Larason2/ ... 9d5739f9f9
I did end up writing new code for our system in the end and am happy to share that with anyone interested.
The wicks console as it was delivered to us.
Testing the matrix arrangement of the upper manual, jumper wires to the arduino mega
Testing arduino code to read the matrix of the swell mechanism
The arduino mega with a screw-terminal 'shield' that made connecting everything that much easier after I fashioned the ribbon cables
Some semblance of interior cable management
The console as it currently appears
I added 12v lighting strips to the music rack and pedalboard, which run off the power supply I got for the arduinos and keyboards. The computer is a HP touch-screen laptop (to the right) and the left is a USB-c touchscreen that matches size-wize.
Will keep you posted of developments
(Custom sampleset also - I sampled the Kilgen before she was taken off line
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