Tying the loose ends on the Wersimatic II...

Published on Mar 23, 2015 organfairy

"... both literally and in the figurative sense.

I bought this Wersimatic II drum machine/auto accompaniment unit together with some other Wersi stuff 5 years ago. But for various reasons I have not made something usefull out of it - untill now.

The most important reason was that I didn't know how I should use it: A separate box with the unit and an external keyboard - like the Wersimatic WM-24, or build it into an organ with an inferior drum unit, or maybe disconnect the auto accompaniment part and use the drum machine part on its own, or maybe something completely different.

I finally decided that the best idea after all was to make a self contained instrument out of - one that had it's own build-in keyboard, power supply, control panel, and off course the Wersimatic electronics itself. This video shows the assembly process.

The music is made using the Wersimatic for the rhythm, arpeggios, and the bass. The first melody is something I just botched together adding chords and melody from my Wersi Prisma and Korg Poly 800 synthesizer. The other melody is 'Susan Himmelblå' by the Danish singer Kim Larsen. There I use only the Prisma organ in addition to the Wersimatic."