question

[rjl]

Hi,

I'm just starting out, playing around with a cheap, dinky little keyboard (I wanted something to play around with before I go and ruin a "Speak and..."). Anyhow, I managed to get a nice sustain/"hold note" effect out of it, which sounds great when I touch a certain resister while holding a note. The only problem is that the note only holds for a few seconds, maybe 10 at the most. Is there some part I can add to increase the amount of time that a note/signal is played (ideally indefnitely...)?

I'm going to keep toying with it, obviously, but wanted to see if anyone had any insight when it comes to stretching out sounds.

Thanks!

[Circuitbenders]

From your description i suspect i recognise that chipset (which is rather sad when you think about it ) and it appears to be the same one thats used on a vast number of different cheap keyboards and keytars etc. There should be a certain resistor that sets the decay of the tone but as you say, even with it set to maximum decay the note cuts off after a certain time. There doesn't seem to be a lot you can do about this unless someone has a cunning method or retriggering the note?