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The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by tim gueguen » Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:15 pm

How's this for a workstation?



This guy modded a Poly 800, including adding a Toshiba Libretto 50CT laptop and an Alesis Nanoverb. More details can be found here
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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by Psy_Free » Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:32 pm

That's completely fantastic.
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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by garranimal » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:19 pm

That's pretty badass. This is not unlike how Open Labs started all this thinking about hardware/software/PC integration. Good man - he mounted the LCD away from the outputs.
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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by Miles Powerhouse » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:46 pm

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But really, that is sooo epic. I need to learn how to do stuff like that.
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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

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Post by shaft9000 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:00 am

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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by lazerface » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:40 am

mind blown.


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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by garranimal » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:11 pm

Miles Powerhouse wrote:But really, that is sooo epic. I need to learn how to do stuff like that.
As far as the mods at the beginning of the video go, that requires some electronics knowledge. But the laptop logistics appears more a mechanical/physical integration. Notice how it still runs on its own power supply with a separate switch. He's just disassembled the components, built them into the synth case, and patch-wired some kind of audio interface. Truly frankenstein thinking.
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Re: The Mighty FrankenKorg.

Post by crystalmsc » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:51 pm

Impressive, more please!
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