Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Building a MIDI keytar
Several weeks ago I bought a plastic toy e-guitar on a flea market. The small circuit inside was a defunct amp for an additional plastic microphone. The (remaining) strings were useless steel wires and I doubt that you could ever use it for music (at least not in european harmonic tradition).
I kept the plastic guitar for some unknown future use. Consequently, the future ended about two weeks ago when I decided that it would become a midi controller. Musicians on laptops are way uncool, as Tom from MusicThing pointed out some time ago (check the link at the end of his post). To rock, you need a guitar. Even if you don’t play the guitar.
So, welcome to my little coverage of transforming a plastic toy guitar into a uber-hot MIDI keytar. Yay. It still needs a cool name, though.
Keytar Project:
Part 2: Pink is the new LED
