•Music-Roll Punching From Midi Files The British Organ Grinders' Association (yes, BOGA!) held their annual meeting at the Amberley Museum, Sussex, on 16th October. It was well attended and a lot of fun. I took along the MIDster punch machine which I had set up to demonstrate punching Raffin-style 2...

•I have recently built the MIDster PUNCH machine designed by Bob Essex. I had built a John Smith Busker organ and am punching my own music, but I really wanted to find a way to punch music automatically. 12 plus hours of hand punching is fun, but it does take time so that's when I turned to the MIDs...

•The recent thread about printing templates from MIDI files in order to punch books and rolls prompts me to ask the question: Why templates? Why not punch directly from the MIDI file itself? It surely must beat clicking away with a hand punch for hours on end. My MIDster Punch system has been used s...

•It is fair to say that John Conrad Kleinbauer's comments with regard to the early version of MIDster Punch are partly, but perhaps not entirely, correct; but nevertheless I appreciate his comments. Mistakes in the early documentation, rather than the circuit and the software, are to blame (for whic...

•I am glad to see the MIDster Punch being discussed on MMD. I am one of the many around the world who is happily punching away. I found the "plans" to be very easy to follow. My only problem was I was not a computer person. This project brought me into the world of computers and music. Bob Essex was...

•Robbie commented: >[ Ed says he averages 6 feet per hour punching the 20er organ rolls; ... >[ Maybe I should make a MIDster to perforate 75-note Wurlitzer 165 >[ rolls. Of course, it would probably run about one-quarter as fast >[ as when punching 20-note music. In practice a lot depends upon the ...

•Hi All, Bob Essex is correct, you can increase the power supply voltage of a stepping motor to get more speed. Let's say you are using five-volt one-ampere per phase motors. Increasing the supply voltage to ten volts will double the speed. In practice I use a twelve volt power supply on my five-vol...

•I think Randy Charles is referring to Bob Essex's "MIDster" punching machine. For details, check out http://members.aol.com/midpunch/ This machine has a single hole punch which scans along the roll width punching one hole at a time, then advancing the paper and punching another row, etc. Because it...

•Randy Charles wrote: > A while back I ran across the name and email address for a gentleman > who had a set of plans (and some software, I think) for making a roll > punching machine using parts from pin-type printer. If I remember > correctly, he was from Great Britain. That is probably Bob Essex...

•Good morning MMDers -- There are two photos of the MIDster puncher designed by Bob Essex in action at the recent AMOS rally at Wagga in Australia. AMOS Member Rueben Grieger built the machine and it punched away much to everyone's fascination. See http://homepage.mac.com/ozorgans/PhotoAlbum6.html T...

•Hello All! I have completed a template to have PC boards made for the MIDster punch machine designed by Bob Essex. The cost for just one board is quite high, but if several were ordered the price becomes more and more reasonable as the numbers go up. I thought I would ask here if anyone else was in...

•Greetings Mechanical Music Digest, I started to lay out a board for the MIDster because I am giving up my perforator (started but not finished) and wanted to get it working with hardware and software. Since the perforator has multiple punch capability, I decided to write my own software instead. I ...

•The previous posting on this subject perhaps needs some clarification. The MIDster Punch booklet and software for building your own music roll punching machine is still available from me and I can be contacted at bobessex@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] or for some more detail and ...

•Tom Griffith wrote in 120112 MMDigest: > I would like to purchase a MIDster paper roll punch designed by > Bob Essex. If you have one for sale, or know of one that may be > available, please contact me. I would like to encourage anyone who is interested in punching their own player rolls to have a ...

•I found my copies of the Bob Essex MIDster Punch plans and software. I will not circulate the construction information. As I remembered, the punch is driven by a PC running DOS. Some "programming" is required. One of the original files carries a 1999 date. One of the reasons I gave up construction ...

•I've just replaced the photocopier at work and have retained the dead one with the hope of using some of the parts in it to build an 88-note piano roll perforator. I've read some good reports on Bob Essex's MIDster punch in the MMD Archives but wonder if anyone has used this design to punch 88-note...

•I am looking for someone who can build me a MIDster punch, as designed by Bob Essex. The punch will be used to punch standard 20-note Raffin rolls, for commercial use. Please contact: Hiddo van Os http://www.hvomusicnl.com/ hvomusicnl@tiscali.nl.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] ...

•I think the person Randy Charles is looking for is me. The MIDster Punch system, which comprises booklet and software, is still going strong after five years since publication. A great many music roll punching machines have been built to this design in countries all around the world. The MIDster sy...

•Over the years that I have been selling my MIDster Punch design and software for a computer-controlled punch machine, I have been asked many times if I could supply a ready-made machine, or where one could be purchased. At last this is a rare chance to buy one! I have been asked, by a MIDster build...

•The MIDster Punch system, plans for punching your own music rolls and books directly from MIDI files, has now completed eight successful years since I first published it at the beginning of 1999. Since then, hundreds of machines have been built, but alas, I suspect a great many MIDster projects hav...