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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2852
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2823.0. "" by KOMRAD::FRANCK (JIM - DTN 237-3436) Thu Jan 16 1992 11:30

Has anyone heard of a sequencer hooked up to a pipe organ?

JIM
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2823.1If an 8 can do it...ELESYS::JASNIEWSKIThis time forever!Thu Jan 16 1992 14:195
    
    	Yeah - I have - but the sequencer was actually a PDP-8! I'm
    sure the referance can be found...somewhere.
    
    	Joe
2823.2hooked up in which direction?GUESS::WARNERIt's only work if they make you do itThu Jan 16 1992 17:0311
    You should be able to hook up anything with MIDI output *TO* a
    sequencer -- you can retrofit most anything to send MIDI.
    
    To get MIDI playback, however, you'd need some kind of mechanical
    interface, I think.
    
    It's fairly cheap to MIDIfy an acoustic piano for sequencer recording, 
    but very expensive to get it to play back (Bosendorfer makes such an 
    animal, but I think it costs more than one hundred thousand dollars).
    
    -Ross
2823.3Various ways...NIOMAX::LAINGSoft-Core Cuddler*Jim Laing*229-7808Thu Jan 16 1992 17:419
    Using products like Devtronix, Trousdale and others, it is possible to
    get MIDI data to/from a pipe organ.  It doesn't have to involve
    contacts under the keys ... it can instead be electrical tie-ins to the
    electronics already in the organ (assuming an electromechanical rather
    than purely mechanical action and stop mechanism) ...
    
    Z-tronics, too
    
    Jim