Oakkar7 shows you how to make an awesome DIY musical keyboard using only 7400 logic.
The idea is to design and construct an electronic musical keyboard with some functions, effects etc,. This is my old school project and I remake and modified it. It is fun.
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Beautiful design.
I read about it on your site and when I saw “The first circuit is 4060 tone generators.” I though – WTF! So many tone generators.. :-)
thanks for visiting :)
yes, every musical instrument is basically tone generator. At least 12 tones generators are required for 12 pitches, C,C#…A#,B (ie: 12 freqs) for such devices.
pros of 4060 are;
– required only 12 x 4060 ckts for 84 keys. I only used 48 keys because I have only 48 salvaged keys.
– easy to tune, I need to tune one tone for each octave
If I use other oscillators (without uC), 48 tone generators will be required.
I have to add more effects and control ckts soon.
BTW, your Constant Load with Nixie Readouts is more awesome than mine.
Beautiful!
one of the nicest builds of the ones I’ve seen posted.
Do you have any video showing this device in action?
Hi Raj,
Here is the device in action video link.
http://youtu.be/7n_fOcdtzDM
thanks to all.