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DIY general MIDI synth

Care for the wide variety and uniquely plastic-sounding voices a general midi synth? This forum thread on electro-music.com details how you can make your own from an old Soundblaster daughter board -

This is a very simple project that will allow you to add a GM Midi Module to your sound creation arsenal. It can easily be completed in a single weekend including the panel.
What's this module good for? It is a 24 voice/16 channel simultaneously available sound source. Each channel can access 127 different GM midi voices which cover most western instruments (classical, rock, jazz, folk, etc), some synth sounds, sound effects and a huge percussion kit (hardwired to channel 10). The voices respond to volume, velocity, pitchbend, modulation wheel, L-R pan, sustain pedal and a few other controllers. The more expensive soundcards will also cover reverb, chorus and other neat effects as well as more than 127 voice options.

The GM Voice on Electro-Music - Link #1, Link #2

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Custom-built MIDI controller - Link

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Comments

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Posted by: Shadyman on March 6, 2008 at 2:25 PM

Sweet. Looks like i'll have to hit up our local computer recyclers :)

Posted by: Marky on March 7, 2008 at 6:09 AM

Great Project !

Here are some more links I found:

http://atari.nvg.org/db50xg/

The Germans do it right ( search this in Google, hit translate link ):

http://www.heise.de/ct/97/01/328/#St252ckliste

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