I have owned two Multimoogs for close to thirty years. With the right jacks I was able to interface them to create a four-oscillator (pre-midi) synth. I loved those instruments so much that in the first ten years that I owned them, I replaced the pitch bend ribbons several times. In the 1980s I finally set up a midi connection with a Roland MPU 101 and an Edmonton Audio Works “magic” black box for trimming control voltages. With that set up I could use midi controllers to trigger notes, send pitch bends, control the filter with a breath controller, etc.
Lately I have been putting in more time playing the Multimoog directly from their own keyboards again. However, I really wanted to replace the worn material that covers the pitch bend ribbons. Does anyone here know what material is used to cover those ribbons and where I might be able to buy some? I’m sure that it was the same material that was used on the Liberation and the Polymoog ribbons. Would the material that covers similar modern ribbons work?
I just sold off all my remaining pitch benders, but still have a roll of the tape used for covering them.
Unfortunately, there is no maker or part number on the roll.
Best I could do would be to sell you a couple feet at a reasonable cost.
But replacing this material is sometimes easy, sometimes very difficult.
If looking for similar tape, I believe it is a teflon coated weave.
Probably made by Scotch or 3M.
I think the WalkingStick Ribbonbender uses these new part too: http://ribboncontrollers.com
I am not paid by them, but I paid for one on eBay and at my local custom office.
Not 100% on topic of the thread, but related to the link:
Lovely add on for all Moogs or even digital synths (all my Waldorfs love it) with a expression pedal (not sustain) in with the ring being the voltage providing contact and the tip the actuall CV in.
I think it would be cool if someone built a box with 4 or 5 of these smaller ribbon elements side by side.
Say, 6 inches long each.
A performer could rest their hand on it and control several parameters at once with CV or MIDI out.
Maybe different modes where it could hold the voltage where it last was and/or absolute position vs “zero is from wherever you first start from”, etc.
(like a CS-80 ribbon, for those that know.)
Variable scaling and curve per ribbon would be nice too.
Imagine being able to simultaneously control a filter, resonance, pulse-width, hard sync’d VCO, etc… with one hand.
Or if a drum machine, the volume of the separate drums.
Maybe even a Voyager with these as an option instead of the touchpad surface.
I wonder if someone might make a keyboard from a bunch?
The ability to play it like a Buchla or Serge touch keyboard, but the added ability to move your fingers forward or backwards for parameter changes.
Before I sold off all my small ribbon controller elements, I placed several side by side and it seemed like an interesting idea anyways.
Oh well, I dream…
