Phase I of my Paramount 320 Completed

[damuehlbauer]

I have been working on this virtual theatre pipe organ for a few months now, and have received great assistance from members of this forum. So, I thought I'd post an update on my progress. I now have a playable Paramount 320. Here are the basic components:

• Hauptwerk Basic and Paramount 320
• Reaper (for reverb) with ASIO4ALL
• Two M-Audio Keystation 61 keyboards
• One M-Audio 49-key (will be soon replaced by Keystation 61)
• Homemade MDF keyboard stack with music rack, sitting on a 44" wide computer desk
• Pedalboard, consisting of 13 Hammond pedals, Conn expression pedal with Kick Switch for Sostenuto and 2 Midikits interfaces, enclosed in homemade MDF case
• Motu Express 128 for keyboard/pedalboard interface to computer
• Behringer TC64 Touchpad (programmed for combinations and Trems)
• AKG K111 headphones and Bose computer speaker set
• Bench from Guitar Center

I am using my everyday computer (Dell), but will replace with a dedicated PC and Touchscreen in a few months when we move and I won't be right next to my desk.

Hopefully, if I did this right there are a few photos attached below.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mKuWHQxf4YmifjDT2

In the future I plan to remove the keyboards from their plastic cases and build a keystack with just the keyboards, and get a better audio interface and some studio speakers and possibly a sub-woofer.

Again, I couldn't have done this without the help of folks on this forum. Thanks!

[Frank-Evans]

Looks like you are well on the way.. Good job..

[magnaton]

Nice job! Regarding your homemade MDF pedal and expression case . . .WOW! With those curved end caps looks like something you just purchased from a music store. Excellent work. Of course the brown color Hammond pedals gives its lineage away but to the untrained eye that whole unit looks new.

Congratulations,

Danny B.

[cham-ed]

What did you use to label the push buttons on the Behringer touch pad? Everything I've tried falls off.

[damuehlbauer]

I have a Brother P-Touch label machine. The standard labels fell right off, but I ordered some clear with 'Extra Strength Adhesive' and they seem to be sticking. At least for now. Time will tell if they stand up to being pressed repeatedly.

I see that some folks have resorted to creating a transparency and placing sheet that over the entire Touchpad but I am hoping that these labels will stick.