Wheel Electronic

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What a great time to be alive for music electronics hobbyists! When people say immortality would get boring I just think of all the things I could add MIDI to for centuries.

I got bitten by the synth bug a year ago. I just soldered a 10 port midi splitter from Tindie. Like you I can't imagine ever getting bored with music gear. It's the best hobby I can imagine for someone who likes electronic music, math, software, electronics, and blinking lights.

this is a simple board for generating midi messages from a potentiometer, in order to implement physical user interfaces. theyve got boards for buttons or note input as well. to convert in the other direction, try-a paia: https://www.paia.com/midi2cv.asp

I'm glad paia is still around.

Just before I was born, my father built and entire 4700j... that was neat to be around when I was little. Eventually I sold it to a collector who had more time and money to refurb it... keeping old hand built synths like that alive is a labor of love.

But I still have a collection of euroack stuff that I've put together. It's a neat hobby even if I make a lot more music with plugins in Logic.

Modular seems to be a craft of sorts, even if most people don't use it for life performances it still awesome to create unimaginable patches. Oh Lord please forgive us for our synths. Amen

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