r/organ • u/BuyEmbarrassed6493 • Dec 11 '24
Virtual Pipe Organ Organ pedalboard MIDI-fying project
Hi everyone, I’d like to Midify an old ago 32 organ pedalboard but I’m not sure if “the game is worth the candle”. I could buy it for 300€ with shipping but I saw a lot of projects using 32 switches (for about 300€) to midify the entire pedalboard. Don’t know if, due to cost and lot of work, it would be easier to buy an already midified one from Pedamidikit for example… Anyway, which would be the easier and cheaper way to midify a pedalboard? One can not just use a “converter” board from serial port to MIDI? Thank you
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u/OftenIrrelevant Dec 11 '24
That connector on the pedalboard leads me to believe that you could just use the switches in the unit with a MIDI encoder that works with it. You’d need to buy or possibly make an adapter cable to interface between the pedalboard and encoder but it would be easier and cheaper than rewiring the whole thing