[MB808 from the begining, sources of info]

Hi guys,

 

Just thought that for the record, I should share some tidbits in case there is anyone else pursuing the same obsession.

 

Tayda Electronics is a good source for some rarer parts like the 2SC945 at http://www.taydaelectronics.com, plus http://www.banzaimusic.com/ and http://www.dalbani.co.uk/ too. Vintage Planet has parts according to manufacturer too: http://www.vintageplanet.nl.  But both Eric Archer (http://ericarcher.net/devices/tr808-clone/) and Dirk Lindhof (mentioned above, http://musiksynthesizer.de/DL-808.htm) suggest good alternatives to try.

 

The eight-oh-eight.org forum is no longer active, but pieces of it can be retrieved from the Internet Archive's wayback machine, located through the following URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20100110053327/http://www.eight-oh-eight.org/, especially the original parts BOM that can be used as a starting point to update.. It takes a good deal of clicking around through the various captures but some hints are still discernible.

 

And of course there is the original xlarge site http://xlargex.xl.funpic.de/ that inspired it all.

 

Thanks!

[MB808 from the begining, sources of info]

Hi guys

 

Wow, thanks for the answers, they are all really very helpful.  Lot's of good information here and in the links you provided.  The German language site has very good coverage for the circuits as well, thanks for that.

 

I know about the demise of the forum, which is really a tragedy.  I got to the point that I even used the Internet Archive's Wayback machine to see if I could access the postings....all they had in the captures were the tantalizing topic thread titles but clicking on any of them revealed those were never captured for some reason.  So sad.  Well, time to start looking for parts before they become obsolete or too late to reproduce.

 

I have almost all the parts for the stand-alone version, except the rotary encoder.  Would the one that SmashTV sells do the job?

 

Thanks Again!

[MB808 from the begining, sources of info]

Hi Everyone

 

For several months now I have been considering building my own MB808, but the information out there is quite scattered.

 

I know about the eight-oh-eight website, and have seen some of the schematics.  Are these all accurate and corrected?  Aside from what's on the site, it seems the project there is defunct.

 

I also know about the midiseq standalone components, so I could get the DOUT, etc to build the sequencer parts, and build the voice boards separately.  That's here:  http://ucapps.de/midibox_808.html

 

That brings me to this:  http://xlargex.xl.funpic.de/.  It looks like this and the midiseq can be married from what I have read.  Would this be the right way to go now?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

Bill