ElectricRock Blog » Hardware Pr0n http://www.electricrock.co.nz/blog Electronic Ramblings Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:37:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ensoniq Control 16 Undressed http://www.electricrock.co.nz/blog/2009/08/ensoniq-control-16-undressed/ http://www.electricrock.co.nz/blog/2009/08/ensoniq-control-16-undressed/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:51:21 +0000 matt http://www.electricrock.co.nz/blog/?p=18 I bought an Ensoniq Control 16 off Trademe cause it was going for fairly cheap relative to new control surfaces.  The problem with the Control 16 is that it is designed to only work with a proprietary PCI card from PARIS.  So I am planning on reverse engineering it and building a USB adaptor.  First things first, though, it needed to be disassembled so I can reverse engineer the circuit.  Here are some pix for those who are interested.

Control 16 - Before Disassembly

Control 16 - Before Disassembly

Control 16 - Rear panel

Control 16 - Rear panel

Control 16 Regulator/IO Board

Control 16 Regulator/IO Board

Control 16 - I/O Regulator Board (Underside)

Control 16 - I/O Regulator Board (Underside)

Control 16 - Undressed

Control 16 - Undressed

Control 16 - Up Close

Control 16 - Up Close

Control 16 - The Brains

Control 16 - The Brains

Control 16 Rotary Encoder

Control 16 Rotary Encoder

Control 16 Slider ICs

Control 16 Slider ICs

Control 16 - Misc ICs

Control 16 - Misc ICs

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