SS-30M

Well, it been a long time since I've made an update and whilst there hasn't been much progress there has been some. Back in March I ...

Okay, I'm a bit bored of all this mechanics talk. I'm still working on the case, but I thought I'd talk about the interface for ...

Well, my comments have been added to the Vintage Synth Explorer site and perhaps even more excitingly this blog has been linked from that pa...

I haven't looked for any SS30 stuff on the web for while and there's a couples of nuggets I've unearthed. Firstly a discussion...

Here's a picture of the case! I'm now worried I won't be able to get all the original switches to fit on the front panel. I'...

At last another post and it's good news - I have a 19" chassis case. After failing to find one of the right size from any of the us...

As I mentioned in the requirements there's no real short-cut to triggering the SS30 and every key will have to be addressed individually...

I now have a digital camera so here's a few snaps of the box of junk that used be functioning SS30. Annoyingly some of these came out a ...

The basic idea is to: a) put the electronics into a rack mountable 19" case with the controls accessible from the front and the connect...

Why bother. Why not just get a sample CD of analogue strings sounds? Or get a decent soft-synth which can recreate the sound. To a cer...

We carried on making music after we went to uni, but the SS30 was used less and less. Part of the problem was the condition of the keybo...

So, we had a Yamaha SS30 or more accurately a Yamaha Strings SS-30. But what was it? The SS30 is a polyphonic, analogue strings keyboard. It...

Here's what the advert said we were going for... And here's what we took home: A Yamaha SS30 And... A Realistic Mo...

Hi, This Blog is intended to be a handy way for me to document my project to rack-mount and MIDI interface my Yamaha SS30. I could have j...

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