Homemade Controllers

toryjames · Post by **toryjames** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:30 pm

Please post your pictures of homemade controllers. Those red jacks were a stroke of genius.

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:51 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE87Enl2TEU I know you said "pictures, but I had this handy, and not pictures, so instead of me taking pictures, check out this video of most of my great gear!

I show off my home made controller. To see it in use, check out part one, as this is just the intro.

Sorry for the spam, but the video is all I have.

toryjames · Post by **toryjames** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:32 am

10-stage sequencer...

toryjames · Post by **toryjames** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:33 am

though I desperately want one of these...

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:25 pm

Did you make that touchplate yourself, or is that a random pic? Great job if you made it...very professional-looking.

Alien8 · Post by **Alien8** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:51 pm

Toryjames, any chance you have a link to the schematic for the 10 stage sequencer? I would really like to build one!!

dave500 · Post by **dave500** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:36 pm

I built this one. http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voi ... _sequencer

Bryan T · Post by **Bryan T** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:18 pm

dave500 wrote:I built this one. http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voi ... _sequencer

That's cool! Was the build straightforward?

Bryan

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:39 pm

The first thing I'd modify on the VOS sequencer is replace all the mini jacks with 1/4 inch jacks if I was to build one. I'd also have green LED's instead of red ones. That's just me. I can't leave stuff well enough alone.

dave500 · Post by **dave500** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:24 am

Yes It was fun and it was my first build and Voltor07 is right the Clock out, Gate out and CV out could be changed to 1/4" and I use these three on my LPTE there is a S-trigger out that I don't use maybe I could use this on my Rogue .

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:56 am

toryjames wrote:though I desperately want one of these...

is that the old moog touch plate? ive never seen close up pics of it. normally its piled up with a bunch of other moog accessories from the early days

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:09 am

ColorForm2113 wrote:
toryjames wrote:though I desperately want one of these...

is that the old moog touch plate? ive never seen close up pics of it. normally its piled up with a bunch of other moog accessories from the early days

Now that you mention it...

I believe you may be right!

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:16 am

I thought the Moog one was wider and never went into production. THe answer lies at the end of that cable.

It woudl likely have an accessory plug, S-trig, and a Gate and scale jacks.

toryjames · Post by **toryjames** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:55 pm

Here is the schematic for the 10-stage sequencer, the big knob selects the number of stages (2 through 10-stages).

There was an auction up a while ago with that touch-plate, it was through Vemia www.spheremusic.com. I think it's a British online auction house. If I remember correctly it was also posted on www.matrixsynth.com.

The ad read: "Bob Moog's own handiwork, serial number TP010. When he started back into music manufacture in the early eighties, the model 300 touch-plate was one of his first products. This is the prototype Synton received from Bob for demonstration purposes. It has its own inbuilt power transformer, and the outputs are available on six 1/4in jack sockets, Moog knobs for controlling sensitivity. It has a Synton sticker on the back, saying 'TOUCH PLATE USA'. Synton and Moog had a close relationship in the 80s, with reciprocal import/export. It is untested. This is from the collection amassed by Felix Visser, former head of Synton. All items were destined for a national technology museum project, many years in the planning, but finally cancelled by politicians and planners. They have mostly been stored unused for a number of years."

Here is another model. The ad stated "Big Briar Model 331 Touch Plate. The third of the touchplates that came from Bob Moog's friend and European accomplice Felix Visser, this was the Big Briar production model, although it still looks totally hand-made. This time, there are four controls, but all control voltages as well as any power are routed through the seven-pin DIN plug. Serial number 1024. Untested at present."

They look like great controllers. Maybe this should be posted under the "What should Moog release next?" discussion.

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:45 am

Great controllers indeed! Definitely should go on the What Should Moog Release Next thread! Right after the Taurus pedals and poly synth, of course!

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