Excellent work. Thanks. A good way to reinforce a foam prototype is to lightly fibreglass it - use "surface tissue", which is a fine cloth, or you can get a thin fibreglass-like mat for covering plants in winter. Instead of actual fibreglass resin, you can just use polyurethane varnish (I like Ronseal Diamondhard) applied over the top, with a brush or a sponge. It's a lot easier to work with - there's no mixing and no chance of it heating up if you get it wrong.
Re-incorporating the keyboard is a cool idea. I thought about making the cheeks tall enough so the keyboard could slide underneath the unit. Also thought about making the cheeks like a mini Moog where the synth can lie flat or be propped up with fold-out legs. This could work in either configuration, with or without the keyboard.
I have a minibrute that i've been trying to sell for a while but unsuccessfully, part of the reason why i dislike it was because it's big and bulky and heavy... now i'm considering doing this mod to reduce the footprint and hopefully the weight and use it alongside my octatrack. I never use the keys anyways I'm not a keyboard player so they were pretty much unused... great video thanks for sharing! would you say it's significacntly lighter than the original shape or not much? i know it will depend on what kindof enclosure you would put it in...
I'm so glad you did a video of this project. Really nice to see how it came together, well done! Looking forward to more! (and I want one of those t-shirts! Let me know how much and when you can have one made... I take a large.)
When triggering the Minibrute with an external CV source, the Minibrute will sum the voltage from the input with the last voltage signal from the keyboard. How does removing the keyboard affect this? Do I have to make sure I hit C0 before I remove it?
Yes I do. I thought about making this a rack mount unit in building a small side panel to route all of the jacks from the back. But a little bigger project than I wanted to do
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looks very slick, great use of magazine rack!
This is splendid! The MS-20 interface is indeed a pleasure to tweak. I'd love to have a Brute in that form.
Excellent work. Thanks.
A good way to reinforce a foam prototype is to lightly fibreglass it - use "surface tissue", which is a fine cloth, or you can get a thin fibreglass-like mat for covering plants in winter.
Instead of actual fibreglass resin, you can just use polyurethane varnish (I like Ronseal Diamondhard) applied over the top, with a brush or a sponge. It's a lot easier to work with - there's no mixing and no chance of it heating up if you get it wrong.
Re-incorporating the keyboard is a cool idea. I thought about making the cheeks tall enough so the keyboard could slide underneath the unit. Also thought about making the cheeks like a mini Moog where the synth can lie flat or be propped up with fold-out legs. This could work in either configuration, with or without the keyboard.
I have a minibrute that i've been trying to sell for a while but unsuccessfully, part of the reason why i dislike it was because it's big and bulky and heavy... now i'm considering doing this mod to reduce the footprint and hopefully the weight and use it alongside my octatrack. I never use the keys anyways I'm not a keyboard player so they were pretty much unused... great video thanks for sharing!
would you say it's significacntly lighter than the original shape or not much? i know it will depend on what kindof enclosure you would put it in...
have you though about incorporating the keyboard back in to the conversion it would look very nice, even though it looks lush as it is.
Can the full sized keys of the minibrute be used on the microbrute?
congrats man, that's looking amazing, love that stand up view... maybe I'll give it a go as well. thanks for the inspiration ;)
I'm so glad you did a video of this project. Really nice to see how it came together, well done! Looking forward to more! (and I want one of those t-shirts! Let me know how much and when you can have one made... I take a large.)
Great looking build!
Nice job on that mod! Good video too!
awesome idea! looks great
thanks for the video. i wonder if you could do this with the Keylab Essential. I just want the knobs/faders and no keybed.
Yes! This is great. Add some jacks for LFO-out and you've got one sick bargain machine.
Looks brilliant btw
When triggering the Minibrute with an external CV source, the Minibrute will sum the voltage from the input with the last voltage signal from the keyboard. How does removing the keyboard affect this? Do I have to make sure I hit C0 before I remove it?
I actually don’t have this synthesizer anymore and only use the midi triggers. Sorry I can’t help.
ah, no worries. thanks for replying anyways :)
does your conversion void the warranty? lol
seriously though ... looks cool
magazine rack from a thrift store, brilliant that, thanks
Nice job!
Amazing!
Great!
Cool
oh hey thats cool thumbs up :-) maybe should try that too :-)
Oh yeah good point. THIS WILL VERY LIKELY V-O-I-D YOUR WARRANTEE.
Don't you wish they had made this a rack-able unit?.
Yes I do. I thought about making this a rack mount unit in building a small side panel to route all of the jacks from the back. But a little bigger project than I wanted to do
Aluminium with an I 😉
as far as i know in the States at least it`s called-they call it "Aluminum" while in for example Germany, "Aluminium"
Cheeks look unbalanced
WOW!