•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. Tom Griffith Hays, Kansas Tel.: 1-785-625-9677 [ Ref. http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/M/midster.html [ -- Robbie

•Hello MM lovers, I did a search for perforators for sale on here and I have seen others inquiring about this; has anyone successfully purchased one through here? I know there are a number of owners on here but does anyone know someone that would make one for order? Also, I am trying to find the pla...

•Has anyone developed a newer software interface for the MIDster, or a similar punch? Thanks, Robert Lesko

•For sale: MIDster Punch Machine system, including the punch machine, computer, power adapter, all books, software, many MIDI files, floppy disks and extra parts. Set up for punching John Smith Senior 20 rolls but can be programmed for other rolls. $2500 USD plus shipping & handling. I will ship to ...

•I would like to offer this for sale: MIDSter Punch Machine, computer, power adapter, all books, software, many MIDI files, floppy disks and extra parts. Set up for John Smith Senior 20 rolls but can be programmed for other small organs, 26/31 note rolls. I will ship to lower 48 states in USA only. ...

•Hello fellow MMD subscribers. This is my first posting after many months of lurking in the MMD Archives section. I have found the Archives to be a tremendous resource. I have been interested in mechanical instruments ever since my parents took me to "Al Svoboda's Nickelodeon Tavern" in Chicago Heig...

•Hi All, It has been a long time since I last wrote. "There are plans, and then there are plan!" Since I sell a set of plans for building a simple crank organ, I just had to comment. Ed Gaida sent me his set of plans for the John Smith organ and the Midster punch. Ed consigned me to build the electr...

•Up for sale are the electronics portion of a music roll punch designed to operate off of MIDI files. I had the circuit board built by someone knowledgeable in the electronics field which I am not. Full details and pictures at http://www.edgaida.com/midster.html Ed Gaida San Antonio, Texas - where i...

•I recently purchased a MIDster Punch and I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to add MIDI files to the original Bob Essex MIDster program. Robert Lesko

•[ Robert Lesko wrote in 160414 MMDigest -- > I recently purchased a MIDster Punch and I would like to know if > anyone can tell me how to add MIDI files to the original Bob Essex > MIDster program. You are asking about a home-built computer peripheral designed over ten years ago, and intended for u...

•Hello Robert, the MIDster punch software runs in DOS. You can add new MIDI files to be punched by copying them into the same directory as the punch software is stored. I don't know which version of the software you are using but in my case I have three different punch options: 20-, 26- and 31-note...

•I am not interested in taking on another money losing project, but... If there are enough people interested who have MIDster punches, it would be possible to bring them up to date. There are several ways I can think of but the two most practical would be driving the machinery with either an Arduino...

•Wallace Venable reports on the death of Bob Essex, back in 2010. I am pleased to tell you that Bob is still alive and well and I saw him within the last year at an organ event at Milton Keynes, GB. Nicholas Simons, GB

•I am pleased to say that Wallace Venable's news of my demise in 2010 has been greatly exaggerated [160415 MMDigest]. Due to advancing years and some health issues, my MIDster Punch plans and software have not been available for the past three years, nor am I now able to give assistance any more. Ho...

•I have read with interest the replies to this subject. In particular I was interested greatly in the quote from Wallace Venable: "I found that I could punch faster with my foot-pedal machine than the computerized punch could". If that really was the case then the mechanical part of the Bob Essex sp...

•[ Paul Bell wrote in 160418 MMDigest: > I have read with interest the replies to this subject. In particular > I was interested greatly in the quote from Wallace Venable: > "I found that I could punch faster with my foot-pedal machine than > the computerized punch could". > If that really was the c...

•Speaking of the MIDster, is anyone using one to recut Playasax rolls? I would be interested in adapting my scanner and the software to make files for such an operation. I would love to build a MIDster myself but need to get a few dozen other projects out of the way first. Spencer Chase http://nt.mc...

•I am looking for MIDI files to punch rolls with my MIDster Punch for my John Smith Senior 20. Robert Lesko [ MIDster Punch [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/16/03/25/160325_120618__wsb_619x468_punchpic7+GIF.gif

•Greetings, I have started writing a program to control a roll perforator similar to a "MIDster". Several years ago, I started to build a multi-format perforator and never finished it. Now I am turning it over to someone else to finish but am going to attempt to write the control program since the M...

•I like the idea Spencer Chase proposes for his personal punch machine and software. The MIDster punch machine is also a great idea. Trouble is, I'll never find the time to make one of these machines. When will some entrepreneurial fellow produce a few for sale? I'd think there would be at least a f...