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Can you share/post the file for the extension/adapter for the piezo electric pickup?

HI MY K2000 HAS A UNIQUE PROBLEM....when i switch on the sounds are good...and after few minutes, all the tones turns distorted.....efx ics are good...problem in the small mother board section,,,,,how do i rectify...please help....this is my favourite keyboard

Wonderful exploration as usual, with some nice musings on “busywork” and skill growth. But now, I feel the overwhelming need to get a pecking chicken alarm clock.

Great video. I'm thinking I made a mistake by getting a Stylophone which arrived a couple weeks ago and is ALREADY broken! I remembered this open theremin since I was already disappointed with the stylophone before it's failure. Not sure what to do with the stylophone but I think it's only strong points are moot since I have pedals and other synths to run that cv out to. It's strong points are the delay, modulation and other effects. How is the arduino ending this one? I've read you can edit the settings to suit your needs?

impressive work .. As you are not an electronics technician you are daring but the reward was worthy of the audacity !! Bravo ! :) I have the same problem with certain snap buttons on my k2000 purchased over thirty years ago and which works flawlessly for the rest. And I fear that it would be too risky for me to try to remove this motherboard to clean them even if I assembled PCs in the past... I'm less courageous than you, it's my only master keyboard and I don't want to risk it breaking down for just one day.

I think the strings are just too short and thats why they cant swing properly 😢 but cool that you are trying to make your own hurdy gurdy i think you are very close to success 😊

Made from high quality tone plastic! For real though that's better than I thought it'd sound, considering you haven't played in ages and it's made out of plastic it actually sounds great. The action (in the off chance that you're not familiar, it's the distance between the strings and the fingerboard) looks way too high though, that's probably making it harder to play, it's almost like the fingerboard needs to be higher up so it butts up closer to the strings better because I don't know if cutting the bridge further down would fix the issue without making the string tension too low. Either way though that thing's cool as hell.

You'll have this down in no time, you're so close! Thank you for sharing, you've got a new subscriber

Part of the video sounded like swarms of bees

I initially started with the Open Theremin a few months ago. The instrument worked well, but I was discouraged with it needing re-tuning every few minutes (ground, setup etc. were ok). It seems this is a design flaw with this specific model of theremin. Afterwards, I switched to a second-hand Etherwave from Moog, and the tuning is solid. I give it 10 minutes to warm up, and after that the tuning does not drift. Also, between sessions it requires either no or only slight adjustment.

Yes, be careful when removing the bottom! I placed mine on a table and my cat ran over it which made it fall down on the floor, shattering it into several pieces. Those things are brittle after 30+ years :-(

Hello there ..did you knowledge About my floppy drive decent works..😢it's loading but doesn't not saves or formatting disk it all For kurzweil k2000 Thanks and greetings 🙏

Great work, keep it up!

Well done, lovely to see an intelligent approach to learning the theremin and the lovely soundscape at the end shows that as long as you have 'compositional' taste you can certainly get to a point of Sound FX / controller stuff! - I was playing tunes you could listen to within about 3-4 months and now 2.5 years in am getting some decent musicality, dynamics and intonation (as you can possibly see on the 100s of progress vids on my channel) ... in answer to your 'pitch field' issue. Good theremins, like the Moog Claravox, Etherwaves and the entry Theremini do have solid pitch fields after the 20 minute warm-up or so and I make sure the room I am in has no wild temp fluctuations and the electrical side is solid and voila, I can play for hours with zero pitch field change, which is what you need to get thos fine hand positions locked down! Especially pieces with intervals eg ua-cam.com/video/z9hE6WP4U5Q/v-deo.html Good luck if you continue the 'diatonic' journey!!

I've always thought learning Theremin just for an annual Halloween performance in the driveway as everyone trick-or-treats would be a lot of fun. Until I get one, I'll just continue practicing the motions in the air during my daily commute ;).

I've had the Moog Theremini in my wishlist for years. It has pitch correction LOL

Happy Halloween from my laboratory to yours.

Brilliant!

IIRC some Hurdy Gurdys don´t just have a fixed peg on their keys, but instead kind of a finger you can swivel on that peg which allows for fine adjustment of where it actually touches the string- It lets you tune every single key, so to speak. So the initial placement of each key doesn´t need to be that precise with that method.

Great video, very interesting .. Always enjoy your style, and philosophies Maybe you could build a small isolation cabinet to eliminate background noise..

Hey from northern Ontario Canada Love your style, curiosity and your delivery. Just subscribed, I’m in,haha Keep up the great videos

Heya, I just stumbled on your videos and I really enjoy them! The tone, the stuff you do and how you talk about it! It feels freeing in a way I think I kinda lost somewhere.. thank you!

My clock never speaks to me either but I sure have a few choice words for it every morning

look up fffiddle and modular fiddle from openfabpdx, the mudolar fiddle especially is exceptionally designed and is entirely acoustic (and can be fitted with pickups of course)

Those who must ask a question "why?", will not understand the answer "and why not". I expected the clocks alarm sounds and spring winding to be included also - maybe it would have been too cliche, but would certainly not be identical amongst the clocks. ...Not too mention, 1am serenade of alarms would supply you with additional library of neighbourly expressions of disapproval of your experiments😜 PS.: A large carton box stuffed with a blanket makes an excellent recording dead box.

Another banger! I dig your style. Have you considered a restoration plug-in like iZotope RX to deal with background noises? Rock on!!!

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i really enjoyed the sampled clock sounds; ended up with some really unique textures. i agree with the points about busywork as well. it seems like many now iconic sounds were born of tedious experimentation with no real goal other than the pursuit of something unachievable. thanks for the insights

Where did you get your springs??

Surprisingly good.

I mean... It sounds (excuse my language) fucking amazing. I've always wanted to get into playing violin. I just recently got a 3D printer.

Already in Love With This Beautiful Cat....He is Priceless!

My k2000's screen has to be tapped every 5 minutes to be visible and the effects are completely broken. Any patch with fx just scream at me so I use the dry outs. I've started to open it, but I got stuck and replaced the screws and backed away

It sounds like you are rewinding a cassette. Fun! :D

I love you as a UA-camr!

THE BEES!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve opened up multiple K2000’s more times than I can remember. Changing the backlights out 3 different times was the worst though. Nice video, thanks for sharing.

FREEBIRD! FREEBIRD! Hey this isn't a bad attempt. You need to separate the button/string contacts into two parts. Bolt/screw the string contacts to the button with a settable angle to fine tune each button/note.

Alrightly! The stl files are now available for anyone who wants to take a stab at this thing. Just remember this is very much a work in progress, so... well... you've seen the video, right? www.composerkristin.com/humblegrumble.html Good luck? Enjoy? Keep on making that noise ⁉

Good morning, I own a K2000 and a PC3. Can you tell me the version of your Rom setup? Thank you beforehand. Boujour de France

At the end of your video I realized the reverb effect didn't quite compensate lack of the resonance box. I'm trying to figure out how this problem can be solved using sound effects? Or just print out the entire instrument, and make it sound more traditional? Anyway, that was interesting.

With all due respect, why not use lock washers? EDIT: or loctite

After posting I starting thinking that the Performer v5 disk was kind of a high version number, so I did a little digging. Apparently Digital Performer and Performer did technically exist at the same time by this point, but I don't think the first version or two of Digital Performer were particularly accessible to most people. It wasn't until the late 90s/early 2000s that actually recording to your hard disk like we do today was feasible for the average composer/musician. If anyone remembers/has experience with those early Digital Performer versions during this time... comment!

I recently found a case of 3.5" floppys with my old Reason 1.0 projects on them (circa 2000). Not sure how to load them, I could buy a 3.5" reader, then buy the latest Reason and hope it loads (doubtful it would play as it did on v1.0).. but.. regardless, for us historians, it is interesting finding such relics. :)

Click the link on the video for part 2, or go to: ua-cam.com/users/shorts4mQLOMBkjY4

Ha! Good one. I started on Passport Designs Master Tracks Pro with a Yamaha DX7. Hashtag historian

The lovely wonky sound is the benefit of it being too short. It's impossible to control the peg position on a short string as the pressure also increases the string tension too much. (Chicken & Egg problem) I kind of get that the wonky sound was probably part of the highly desirable feature set, but if you make it longer, you will be able to actually control the pitch to some extent. And of course, the wheel edge shouldn't be 3D printed you can glue a wooden veneer on it, sand it smooth and use rosin.