SS-30M

From the It's Full Of Stars blog Ben 'Benge' Edwards seems to write this blog, although he goes by the handle Zagoba for blog...

A great film and well worth watching even if you're determined not to get sucked into that whole different mess of wires. http://www.i...

The MIDI interface needs a power supply between 8 and 35 volts. The supply current needs to be 15 mA for the interface itself plus whatever ...

Here are the SS30's main PCBs. It's about 50% wires! G boards on the left, K, boards at the back and the rest in the middle. ...

It's been an exciting couple of evenings (yes, that's how I roll) as I've had the actual SS30 hardware out and powered up for th...

Keep it simple  Back in this post  http://ss30m.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/how-are-you-to-switch-negative-voltages.html I was talking about t...

Whilst looking for some clues on the key switching problem I came across this. https://archive.org/details/synthmanual-yamaha-ic-guide-b...

Five years is long time between posts. I'm not going to try and explain that gap. Life has it's own priorities and this project wasn...

I've been wrestling with the problem of key switching again. Because the key driver circuits switch a negative voltage to ground it cre...

I'm thinking life would be much easier if the power came from an external unit, rather than having the PSU inside the chassis. Space is ...

Is it practical to get a custom made PCB built up? These UK company's do a custom service: pcbpanel.co.uk pcbtrain.co.uk They both accep...

I will need 6x SPDT, 2x DPDT and 2x SPST switches. The 4066 contains four SPSTs which can be connected as required to make SPDTs and DPSTs. ...

After looking around at switches I can see that there's alot of choice but it get's quite limited when you start narrowing down to D...

I'm going to need ten switches plus the power switch. Orchestra: Speed - SPDT Cello - DPDT Violin - DPDT Cello: Attack - SPST Cello 1 - ...

Over the years, I've been thinking I should really make this project easier to finish. The two main issues have been the awkward meachni...

I added some comments to Matrix Synth: "some sources describe this synth as a duphonic/ multiphonic ,others describe it as a 4 voice po...

Matrix synth entry There's an eBay auction y'see So these pictures and videos may be up for only short time. "some sources des...

A spiffing demo! From Synthopia via my good friend Barker http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/03/08/yamaha-ss30-rare-string-synth/

Greetings MatrixSynth gawpers! Sorry, I've been too busy to keep this up. Don't give up hope though, I haven't.

Yeah, I'm lame. Okay, okay. Here's some red hot videos from YouTube featuring the wonder of the SS30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...