MIDI keyboard from Böhm

MIDI KEYBOARD FROM BOHM To start with, it should be noted that the MIDI keyboard described in this article is a control unit that in some quarters is referred to as MIDI Master Keyboard. The present unit is NOT intended to pro- duce sounds; that is the proper task of the syn- thesizer controlled by it. It should, therefore, not be confused with the inte- grated type of mini syn- thesizer that comes com- plete with keyboard, with the latest models also in- corporating a MIDI Expan- sion Unit. There is a growing body of opinion that the current MIDI standard will not be able to hold out much longer against the attacks of an ever-changing elec- tronics technology, which only recently defeated the Fig. General view of the completed Bohm MIDI-KEY 1 Vloctave characteristic. This had been introduced in the early 1960s and Broadly speaking, the synthesizer keyboard has been developed alongside the mainstream of electronics. It is, therefore, not surprising to find at the heart of a modern...