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Friday, July 01, 2016

YAMAHA SS-30 plays The Cure - And MIDI Solina?

The Cure on SS-30


Here's LibreCandombe  (from Uraguay?) running though a selection of hits by The Cure on a nice looking SS-30. A good range of sounds and styles on show here.






Solina with MIDI? 


I don't think The Cure ever used an SS-30 themselves . It seems they were an Eminent Solina band. Interestingly it's claimed in this auction that this one - their actual machine - was MIDI retrofitted. 



The pictures are preserved by MatrixSynth and you can see they went with an XLR connector.


It's beena while since I looked around for such things but seems both a few people offer solutions for the Solina. There's lot's a of ribbon cable being used, which is an intriguing idea.

 

Doepfer

 The Dopefer solution is based around their MTC64 MIDI TO CONTACT / GATE . 

It's actually a design one of their customer's has documented and provided for everyone's use.

The interface is based on CNY74-4 opto-couplers. This would work just as well for the SS-30.




Kenton Retrofit


The Kenton solution is a bit obscure and there's no clues on the website on how it works. 
















Moregraphics


This one is discontimued

http://www.moregraphics.nl/solina/english/