# Sequencer Keyboard Thingy
**URL:** https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581
**Category:** KOSMO MODULES
**Created:** [May 30, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581 "2021-05-30T20:46:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/1 "2021-05-30T20:46:42Z")
so after a bit of thinking this is the latest of the keyboard sequencer design from me.
no artwork as of yet.
I have been putting together currently just testing it with some rough code. I
ts Arduino again so code can be modded and mangled to your hearts content.
but this one varies from the first one as it also has 16 step output which I think is pretty useful. and serge style capacitive touch pads instead of buttons which are proving pretty good! they are solid instead of patterned as that seems to be a lot more responsive to different finger types! (dry/moist hands ha)
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### Author:  [@Sonosus](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Sonosus)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/2 "2021-05-30T20:51:28Z")
I’m putting aside rack space for this one. How wide is it? 20cm?
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### Author:  [@fredrik](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/fredrik)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/3 "2021-05-30T20:57:20Z")
If it’s Kosmo, it’s 20 cm high, and judging from the photo it’s a bit wider than it is high 😀
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### Author:  [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/4 "2021-05-30T21:12:56Z")
Def looks like 40 cm to me. I’m interested in the buttons, similar could be useful in other designs. DIY Buchla Thunder controller anyone?
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/5 "2021-05-30T21:30:02Z")
yeah 40cm! one of the big mummas. I’m trying to not do many modules this big as they do end up being quite chunky! but this one needed it. its the same size as the old one and I’m guessing @analogoutput 's take on it is also a 40cm one I’m pretty sure!!!
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/6 "2021-05-30T21:32:06Z")
implementing it is very easy. so that could indeed be done with any run of the mill Arduino controller code!
analog in but the pull down resistor is a very very high resistance. 4-10M to be honest even digital inputs might work too. its proved pretty good to be honest. when I made the sausage synth its what I did those sausages were awfully responsive ha!
had a brain fart. sausage synth never made it because I did it as part of a series me and a couple of friends made 2 years ago for a company who decided to can it all after we finished it! ill find a pic tho.
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### Author:  [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/7 "2021-05-30T21:33:44Z")
How are you working the connections to the buttons? Surface solder pads on the back side? Or is there a header hidden somewhere?
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/8 "2021-05-30T21:42:06Z")
surface mount pin header to the back of the panel. working well but still sorting out the code to make sure its all a happy Chappy!
not surface mount on the sausage synth mind. that was point to point hahahaha
ill take some more shots of it tomorrow (the keyboard sequencer that is) not got it with me at the minute. a shot of the back
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### Author:  [@Caustic](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Caustic)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/9 "2021-05-31T00:25:17Z")
Hot dog, that’s really the wurst sausage synth i have ever seen! Thanks for sharing this, made my day.
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### Author:  [@JonGreen](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/JonGreen)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/10 "2021-06-01T12:24:10Z")
Yay! Finally an ‘official’ sequencer panel! Looking forward to this one.
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### Author:  [@Soundbrigade](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Soundbrigade)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/11 "2021-06-06T14:03:15Z")
That looks what we in Sweden call a [KORV](https://www.cooks.com/recipe/r4r72qs/swedish-korv.html) MS-20.
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### Author:  [@devicex](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/devicex)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/12 "2021-06-06T15:29:29Z")
sounds tasty and like something my cardiologist would say absolutely not 🙁
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/13 "2021-06-30T15:09:51Z")
sorry this one has taken a couple of months to get right! this is the last proto, tiny bit more artwork and this one will be ready in about 3 weeks. here is a very un musical demonstration haha
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkng6jemy0c)
code still needs a bit of fiddling but the hardware is good now. tried keeping it as close to the original as poss but adding a couple of things. so still no multiplexers etc its an Arduino and circuit logic basically
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/14 "2021-07-02T19:08:29Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAUqb4cxiTQ)
drums and synths being sequenced by it, being driven by 2 different LFO’s one forward and one backwards hence the dodgy ness in the middle ha
16 step sequence playing the notes and the drums on the 8step
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### Author:  [@heckseven](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/heckseven)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/15 "2021-07-03T02:29:22Z")
I am very much looking forward to this. Between it and the evil eye sequencer (pretty similar), I will have a pretty good set of in the box sequencing happening.
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### Author:  [@popflier](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/popflier)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/16 "2021-07-03T05:16:58Z")
The touch pads remind me of the Flundrton Lyra-8 panels. He replaced the thumbscrews that are typically found on the Lyra-8 and harder to source, with lotus pads built into the panel. He ran a wire between the panel on the back and Lyra-8 pad locations on the PCB. There’s a photo on his website where he talks about it:
> **[Lyra 8 DIY Lotus Touchpad Panel](https://flundrton.com/products/lyra-8-diy-lotus-touchpad-panel)**
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> PCB material panel for your DIY Lyra-8 build. This panel has Lotus-mandala touchpads that replace the DIN thumbscrews on the original. Solder pads on the back of the panel match up with the Lyra Control PCB, and you just glob the solder (of a bit of...
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### Author:  [@lookmumnocomputer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/lookmumnocomputer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/17 "2021-07-21T19:44:53Z")
batch arrived today. I need to pack them expect on store next week Monday probably. here is the back of the front panel! same size as the mega drone panels
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### Author:  [@devicex](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/devicex)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/18 "2021-07-21T23:39:19Z")
looking good , still amazed you get anything done with all you have going on .
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### Author:  [@troberts289](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/troberts289)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/19 "2021-08-26T22:24:26Z")
I’m confused by these contacts for the capacitive touch switches.
Am I supposed to bend my male pin connectors and solder them on?
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### Author:  [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/sequencer-keyboard-thingy/3581/20 "2021-08-27T01:04:40Z")
Use a surface mount header
> [@\#2001 keyboard sequencer](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/2001-keyboard-sequencer/3862/43):
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> found it [https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/samtec-inc/TSM-110-01-T-SV/6691889](https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/samtec-inc/TSM-110-01-T-SV/6691889)
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