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If I remember, yeah there should be plenty of room for everything. I'll get pictures and video and everything when I get back to the states next month. The PC doesn't have to be in a case either; the motherboard could be mounted straight to the side with standoffs. It doesn't have to be ATX either. There's a system called pico-ITX, the whole computer is the size of a cdrom drive, and uses an via nano processor ( http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/ ) I suppose the other alternative is a mac mini.

I do plan on using the internal audio system in addition to having an output section to hook up to an external PA. I'm putting a whole computer system in the organ with the midibox hardware. Originally what I was looking for is something I could plug in to a USB port with enough digital ins and outs that could be assigned to MIDI channels, all in the PC, but I haven't been able to find such a thing. (Or maybe I'm not doing the right search)

Hey I'm pretty new to the world of organs, and totally new to this forum. I really have no idea how to play an organ. My grandmother passed away last year and I now have the organ, which is a Hammond Regent 4172. Everything works on it as far as I know, but it hisses like crazy; probably oxidized contacts on the board connectors. I want to MIDIfy this thing. All I see are complaints about how awful this organ is, but I've always liked it since I was a child. It's not a requirement to keep the original sound working, but that would be a bonus. So I've been looking around at different methods to accomplish this, and so far MIDIbox seems like the cheapest and easiest way to go about hooking everything up. I don't have the organ at hand (just a picture) so I'm probably not going to buy any parts until I get home in a couple of months. I would like to know if the manuals are matrix wired or individual (same for the pedals and stop tabs.) There are a few features I have no idea how to add, like the percussion section, and that weird slider thing between the manuals. It also has a built in leslie, which is controlled by one of the stop tabs I believe. I wonder if I could also use MIDI to control the original electronics for recorded playback. Here's what I can make out from my picture; I figure I can use LEDs to show the status of the stop tabs, regardless of which position they're in. Motor/solenoid control on the tabs would be cool but I think that might be too difficult. Here's a picture of it, and following is a list of what I assume are all of the connections; 49 tabs 61 swell 61 great 25 pedal volume pedal 5+1 piston radio buttons slider thing + toggle 16 percussion radio buttons 6 percussion toggles percussion on/off pistons led 2 other toggles tempo pot 2 other pots 4 or 5 position rotary switch 4 illuminated pushbuttons (A B C D) 2 red and 1 amber led power switch, lights pushbutton This will be the first project like this I've ever attempted. Soldering and electronics aren't a problem, but I've had little to no experience doing any kind of programming. I kind of like the way the new STM32/Core32 looks, anyone used these yet?