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    I am building a hauptwerk organ.</p>

     I have 1 61 key keyboard</p>

    computer</p>

    hauptwerk/ miditzer</p>

    1 Rodgers 22b with a real nice looking pedal board.</p>

     </p>

    Is it worth hauling all 180 pounds of pedal all the way upstairs to try to connect to the computer? WHAT IS THE 100% CHEAPEST WAY TO ADD MIDI TO THE THING? </p>

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    http://www.businessvision.net/edge/M...;CategoryID=15

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      Lets stick with this thread. But again I would not spend near $500 just to add midi to my PEDALS!!!

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        Brandon,</P>


        Seriously, that's a very spendy setup from Artisan.</P>


        You need a midi board. The absolute cheapest are the 'build your own' variety for those who are good with a soldering iron and like to tinker with such things.</P>


        I boughta mpc32xr from Midi Boutique (a Bulgarian company) http://www.midiboutique.com/.</P>


        It's 40 scanpoint board (32 for the pedal keys, and 8 extras for divisional pistons, etc.) Current price is 100 EU. Place your order and wait. The quality is tops and he stands behind what he sells. Also you need 32 reed switches and 32 magnets. And some hot glue. They can provide you with the reeds switches all wired in a harness and ready to go, too.</P>


        There are plenty of other options as well. Have you checked this page and made inquiries?
        http://www.crumhorn-labs.com/Resourc...Hardware.shtml</P>

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          Hi Brandon, I think probably the cheapest option would be getting parts from http://www.midiboutique.com/ The encoder would cost ~$150 + whatever other electronics would be required. Either way, a decent Hauptwerk setup is going to cost some money. Lets say you buy the basic edition of Hauptwerk for $250, get the Haverhill OIC sample set for $250, $1000 for a computer, $250 for an audio interface, and say $1,000 for misc electronics / equipment (that's assuming you're resourceful and use your existing console).</p>

          That's $2,750. Anyway, what I just gave you is a very rough estimate. I wouldn't recommend trying to build a system unless you've done enough research to know exactly which parts you'll need and how much it will cost you. There are turn-key solutions available, but those are going to be more expensive. If you want to get MIDI hardware from Classic (keyboard, pedalboard), I'd recommend that you use $10K as a rough figure for building a complete Hautpwerk setup.
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            Brandon,</p>

             Check out midibox.org.  You could "midify" your pedalboard for about $50. I'm using midibox to midify my whole Wurlitzer console.</p>

             Here's a thread to look at: http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.p...c,10460.0.html </p>

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              I came across this on youtube. This guy has an interesting method that I might consider, and one that could be a cheaper alternative for someone.</P>

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              Part 1</P>

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we_HH3VqhNM</P>

              Part 2</P>

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnPNOwzzzc</P>

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                Brandon, I would agree with the vendor that Steffanussen recommended. This is who I went with when I did mine. The product is great, customer service is second to none, and its easy to install. The price is not bad either. See my blog at the bottom of the signature area and go to the oldest pages to see pics of what I did and how I did it. I hope this helps, and good luck either way you go. I am having lots of fun with mine!

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                  I made a MIDI pedalboard by wiring the contacts in an old pipe organ pedalboard to the contacts of the lowest 32 notes of an inexpensive 37-key MIDI controller keyboard (there were a number of groups of notes sharing common grounds, and then two contacts per key to provide velocity information). By carefully adjusting the heights of two of the contacts under each pedal (one is higher than the other so that the time difference between when the ground hits the contacts can be converted to a note velocity), I was able to create a "touch-sensitive" pedalboard. It's a big job but it's cheap and it works!</p>

                  -Eric.
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