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Hey Thorsten, is it planned to release the board-layouts as GERBER files (or similar) for the MIDI I/O and the STM-Board? Thanks! Chris

Thanks! That version is working! :)

Okay! I will give you a feedback today evening. Yesterday I tried to add key=any without success (with 1.030).

It's not working on my side. I just copied & pasted the ngc you posted but than the keyboard only sends the note C-2. With other words: Every note I play on the keyboard is a C-2 ;)

Okay, I will check that tomorrow! Thanks! Do I have to enter those numbers by myself or is there a program / script, where I can define a velocity curve and it calculates the values? The script, which is provided in the tools-folder is not suitable for that as far as I can see.

Hey, thanks for the new version! I need to change the velocitycurve of one of my keyboards. It is much to sensible. I will plug the midi out from they keyboard into the LPC. After taking a look into the NGC manual I think that I need to create a map with 128 values and add Is that correct? :) Thanks, Chris

Hey Thorsten, thanks for pointing me to the link! Nice one!

Thank you! I have another question regarding the banks: Is it possible to have two different banks selected at the same time? I have a group of faders and a group of encoders. I want to switch the bank of the faders without affecting the encoders and vice versa. Is that possible? Thanks Chris

Oh, thats a nice idea! I will try that. For some reasons the ngc I created was completely empty after restarting the core. Do you want to implement an automatic backup feature?

Hi TK, Mainstage listens to every MIDI / USB port. It is not possible to deactivate specific midi ports (maybe it is possible in OSX in general?!). The problem is, that assigning controller via MIDI learn in Mainstage is not working this way. It's not a big deal to do it manually, but maybe in the long run you want to implement a feature, that blocks the USB2 port completely if necessary? Thanks!

Hi TK, thanks for getting back to me. I have the router running now. I don't know exactly where the mistake was. But I can not get the motorfaders running. I attached a picture. There you see my config and in the background Mainstage. I want to assign a fader via midi learn and as you see, it get's the values of the motormix from USB2. mf.tiff

Hey, I'm wondering, how to enable MIDI IN4 (M/O 3 not used). I assembled a little PCB with a optocoupler on it with the MIDI-extension schematic provided my TK. I connected it to J4 and I triple checked the connections. Everything should be fine. ucapps says, that MIDI IN4 needs to be enabled in the firmware. I took a look into mios32_config.h and it seems, that it is already defined and so enabled. But it is not working. Any suggestions? Another one: I did connect motorfader to my core via MIDI I/O2. I can set them up nicely in the ngc. I set the config-port to USB2. On the first USB port I get the midi-signals I set up in the NGC file. On the second port I have the signals emulated motormix is creating. Is there a chance to block this? I tried to block them with the router-command but this didn't help. Any help is very appreciated! Thanks, Chris

... shame on me! It was a synthax error.... I have another question regarding the keyboard-scanning. I have here a 76key Fatar keybed (TP/8S) which works fine with the LPC-core and the DIO-module. Because the diodes are mounted the other way around, I needed to change the jumper-setting on the DIO and the code to din_inverted=1. But I'm wondering, that I only get a few velocity-values and you can recognize a pattern... here are the values: 1, 5, 16, 27, 38, 49, 71, 82, 93, 104, 115 As you can see it's often velocity+11. Can you explain, why it behaves like this? Has it something to do with the scanrate of MBNG? Thank you! //edit: Okay, checked with MB_KB. It has something to do with the scanrate. With MB_KB I get a lot more velocitys-values. If I want to get the higher resolution but don't want to loose the advantages of the LPC-core, does it makes sense, to use a PIC18F-core to do the scanning, send the MIDI to the LPC and he does the rest? What do you think? How about the scanrate in the PIC? Or does the new STM32F4 improve the situation?

Hey! Another bug / imperfection? :) I wanted to route MIDI signals that come into MIDI IN 1 or 2 via USB to the computer. I used the ROUTER command like this: When I save this as NGC, the MIOS Monitor tells me "warning, unknown command n=1"... something like this. If type directly into the command line, it works! But this setting is not permanent. So I would need to do this every time I plug in my core. What do you think?

Tierisch! Danke dir!

I maybe discovered a bug.... but maybe it should be like this: If I set a EVENT_BUTTON button_mode=toggle, toggle-mode is not working, if I invert the range. If I set it to range=80:90 the button toggles from 80 to 90 and backwards. If I set it like range=90:80 it just sends 90... but does not go back to 80. Is this like it should be? And: Is it possible to turn LCDs by 90°? Thanks Chris

Also you should check "knobman". It's a nice tool to create pots. I will give it a try these days.

Here is a recommondation for an application: http://www.lmnopc.com/bitmapfontbuilder This program converts fonts to bmps. You can set the resolution you want. After that you have to do a bit of size editing in GIMP, but its A LOT easier, than putting the puzzle in GIMP together. Check it out! I just put Arial into MBNG quite easy... (well... The resolution I choosed was a bit high so one letter fills the whole display... but... it works).

In the meanwhile I deleted the font I was using. I realized that it's hard to find a good-looking font. Because all fonts are using not only black/white pixels but also gray and gray is not supported, it looks very different after the conversion. So maybe I will stick to the standard fonts that come with NG for the first time. I'm more interested in getting the HD-bars running ;)

Update: Works like a charm! Amazing...

Hey, thanks for the tutorial. But I'm stucked at the perl-point. The perl-script says: ERROR: Wrong Pixel Size - expecting x = 192! I double checked everything. I converted the file first to bmp, than to xpm like described in the tutorial. I also tried to export it directly to xpm. Any tipps you can give on that? The file has a size of 192x128, exactly like your example... //edit: Ok... solution: It has to be black and white... no grayscale... I overread this point... let's go on ;)

I did an order at Yoybuy at 26th of april and received all parts (10 displays) today. That was really fast... I paid with credit card... so my experience is good. Incl. shipping I paid $100... so less than $10 per display. The shipping is quite expensive, if you want to get it fast. If you have time (like 30 days), than it's a lot cheaper.

Hey, 2wice: any news on this at your side?

In the meanwhile I have the pinout of the TP/100 and built an adaptor. I put them into production and will get the results in ca. 10 days.

Lieber Stephan, die Verschaltung laut deinem Plan sieht soweit korrekt aus. Da kann man auch wenig falsch machen, außer, was mir recht oft passiert und eine unangenehme Fehlerquelle ist, ist die Orientierung der Stecker. Achte darauf, dass du immer die immer richtig steckst. Das Benehmen des Octatracks ist wirklich seltsam. Am einfachsten wäre, wenn der Octatrack immer alle CCs raussendet, wenn du ein Programm wechselst. Sollte es das nicht können, wundert mich das aber auch nicht. Selbst ein Yamaha Motif ist dazu nicht wirklich in der Lage... Du kannst jedem Parameter einen Namen zuweisen. Dafür müsstest du dich mal mit dem NGL Format beschäftigen. Das hab ich bisher noch nicht gemacht, wird aber auch bald kommen. Hab mir gerade einen Satz Displays bestellt. http://ucapps.de/midibox_ng_manual_ngl.html Hier findest du das Manual zum NGL. Damit sollte es möglich sein, was du vor hast. Auch kann ich dir diesen Guide noch ans Herz legen, der zeigt, wie man individuelle Symbole anlegt: