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Which older electronic organ to convert - if any?

Dorsetmike

Member
What would be the easiest/cheapest make or model to build GO into? I've been looking on Gumtree and there seem to be quite a few at prices between about £20 and £200 which I could afford.

My thoughts would be to find one with MIDI connection(s) which might not need so much in the way of parts; I have a spare Dual core Pentium PC, which I used to run GO2 on, which could either go in "case and all" or as motherboard and PSU.

Can GO be adapted to run with no keyboard or monitor? or might it be better to build in a laptop/notebook rather than a desktop or tower. If a K/B and monitor are used then changing sample sets would be as normal, but could that be achieved by other means, example load from USB sticks?

The only item which would need to be sourced separately would be a full pedal board.

Alternatively some of the more recent ones (1990s onwards?) use samples, could they be replaced/reloaded with other sample sets (USB stick or ROMs??

Wishful thinking or a possibility?
 

wljmrbill

Member
too tech for me per your questions. I use 2 keyboards and pedal board..into a midi interface unit( 4 in-4 outs )- plugs by usb into my laptop and then use audio output into amplified speaker system.. works well for me. finding a console (with in budget ) and converting it seem a bit of work for limited electronic skills
 

e9925248

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A notebook is for the same CPU/RAM/HD/SSD more expensive/less expandable then a desktop.

You need to connect keyboard/mouse/monitor for the initial configuration of each sampleset. For normal playing (including switch samplesets), you can disconnect them.

If you want a ready-to-use setup for a head-less GO, you can try https://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/files/GOLive/ (This forum also contains a thread about it).

A user has built something like this (sorry, it is German - but Google Translate is your friend):
http://mps-net.de/orgel/seite/include.php?path=forumsthread&threadid=271&entries=15

 
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