E-70 Electone Midification

[crankit]

Can someone give me some ideas on Midi retrofits for the e-70.

I've seen a few sites with a little info on midi retrofits for old conn organs and empty theater pipe organ consoles but nothing for the e-70.

Theres a site i found with kits for the d-85 and e-45 here http://web.tiscali.it/carlopetrini/ Nothing here about the e-70 and i'm not sure if this kit can be made to work on an e-70.

Can it be as simple as wiring up a midi device to the contact points of each of the keys?

Has Anyone Midified an E-70

[jimhenry]

If you are willing to strip out all the existing electronics and reduce the console to a collection of electrical switches, then yes, MIDIfication is as simple as wiring the switches to the contacts points of a MIDI converter, like a Midibox with 4 DIN boards and running the MIDIIO128 project to provide 128 points of input.

[Roman Midi-Opa]

Hello,

it is not so complicated as asumed. There is a Digital Master Board inside the

shielded box on the right side of the organ. There you will find a clock, 4 data lines (key1-4) for keyboard information and a sync line. The information are coded and starts with the sync going high. The 4 data line are all high and the key code follows by 1 for the pedal, 7 for the upper and 7 for the lower keys. There are some additionell information for the register, but they seems to be changend from type to type.

Greetings Roman

(Sorry for my bad English)

[bugfight]

ouch, i'm going to assume the gutting comment was a joke.

the e-70 is quite a find, i had to look for several months to get mine.

inside are some of the same analog circuits as the famous yamaha cs series.

i haven't done any mods yet, though, can't seem to find a service manual.

and mighty Queue is so fat...

btw, the d85 is almost the same guts.  there are some nice threads on electro-music and organforum...