Vintage 9V Adapter voor Cheetah Midi Keyboard / Sinclair ZX

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Vintage 9V Adapter voor Cheetah Midi Keyboard / Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1987

Cheetah MK5 is the latest in a long line of home computer peripherals which far exceed the power and quality of rival products. In this particular case, Cheetah have broken through into the serious music market with a stylish and economical MIDI master keyboard.

You may have read about Cheetah's new Spectrum Sound Sampler (reviewed last month) and forthcoming Spectrum MIDI interface. But the MK5 is a quantum leap ahead of these admittedly excellent budget products, providing many MIDI control functions. With the optional Spectrum mini (not MIDI) interface, you can also play the sound chip of a Spectrum 128K or Plus 2.

High Street chain Boots originally asked Cheetah to produce a dumb keyboard just to play the Spectrum's AY-3-8910 sound chip. But the hardware Cheetah actually came up with could justify a place in practically any MIDI'd home studio.

The MK5 is a full-size, five-octave MIDI controller keyboard with a tough, stylish all-metal case. The keyboard bit is made in Italy and is similar in quality and feel to that of many good non-velocity-responsive synths.

Controls and connections are cut to a bare minimum, mainly for reasons of economy. At the rear are the power connector for the 9V transformer supplied with the keyboard, and the standard five-pin DIN MIDI Out Above the keys are a sprung horizontally-mounted pitch-bend wheel, a program/play selector switch, four LEDs indicating the current control option, and a large, bright three- segment LED display.

Where, you might ask, are all the other controls? Well, like the OSCar monosynth, the MK5 has many of its control options hidden on the music keys themselves. Once you've plugged in your synth modules and powered up, pressing the Program/Play button puts you into Program mode. You can then use the top octave of keys to select MIDI Channel 1-16, octave plus or minus one, and program number 1-128. As you hold down the control keys, the appropriate LED lights up. The display keeps incrementing or decrementing as long as
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