Hi all,
thought I'd share some pictures of my console that I built this year. Actually it is finished already since July. It is constructed entirely from oiled glued wood panels (beech wood). Keyboards are Fatar TP 60 LF, which I find very nice. The pedalboard is a used pedalboard from an old Ahlborn DS-16 (I think from the 80s?). The expression pedals are also vintage analogue organ stuff, and the crescendo wheel is made from a large number of old DVDs with some ribbed rubber wrapped around. Works very nicely!
For the electronic part I kind of mixed some things together. Originally I only wanted to have it send signals to Hauptwerk, and I got encoder boards from
Nico Goes. Then I decided I wanted the pistons to light up and also to add some displays for Hauptwerk status information and expression pedals. Since I had previous experience with the
MIDIbox DIY encoder stuff and also some parts for that lying around, I simply build a MIDIbox main processor board and an output decoder and this is now driving the three displays and also providing some special logic.
Here are a few pictures which I took when I had it all put together:
image1image2image3I'm happy to share my experiences in the building and programming process if anyone is interested.
Regards
Reiner