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Hi Again Slight change of plan I managed to aquire a Hammond organ with 2x61 note manuals complete with the 12 reverse preset keys 4 sets of 9 drawbars and ton of tablet switches. Free to collector. It ended up being pretty easy collection after I introduced it to my circular saw. 4 hrs to harvest the parts and the rest is now landfill. Dont worry it wasn't a good one Looking at the diagram for non velocity keyboards it wasn't clear which end was the bass end I also assume that that loop can extend to 128 notes or you can make a second clone and scan seperately? Wanted to wire the keyboards while I'm waiting for my other midibox parts to arrive Regards

Thanks again Thorstern E.g EVENT_BUTTON id= 1 type=CC chn= 1 cc= 16 range= 0:127 Pushing the button is sending cc 16 data on midi Channel 1 with variable velocity? in other words this is a velocity sensitive Button/key? So the DIN is specified in the user set up and the ID1 of the button will be pre assibned in the MBNG so that it will always correspont to a specific pin on the DIN? Regards

O.K i've ordered myself an LCD display as I didn't have a suitable one. Once I get that I'll work through the beginers tutorials. So am I reading this correctly. The NG program is essentially aready written, what the user is doing is specifying the parameters in which it runs? For example specifying that an 8x8 matrix is present on a DIN module connected to J?? on the core? the NG aready knows what to do with that?

Hi Thorstern Thankyou swapped over to Win7 and Midi port comes up a Midibox NG and loaded. Only issue which is easy enough to sort is when Mios Studio is started I get the nothing there Red text if I go to Midi input and change to Midibox NG2 then back to 1 it connects and reports that STM34 Midibox NG 1.035 is present. So I guess that means its running. If you click update it clears and the text confirming the ID of the connected core comes back a second or so later. I guess this means that I can start on the tutorials? I will need an AINSER64, DIN and a MIDIIO What else? How much coding can be done without these modules? Regards

Hi Thorstern Yes I see now that From 1.019 of NG or later e.g 1.035 rather than bootloader 1.018 my bad. tried typing in the box and nothing happening so definately giving up with XP and Moving over to win7 Hopefully when I try this later all will be well Regards

Hi Thorstern Thankyou again for you response The 1.019 is metioned here in the NG first steps document http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_ng_manual_fs.html I loaded everything up on my old laptop so its on XP It also has Win7 as its dual boot so I could transfer everything over if that is better to use. Will be quicker I guess than messing about. I think more reading and revision is needed on my part while I get my head round the MIOS system. I realised that I can't type anything in the box so forcing single use USB is a problem I'll move everything over to Win7 later and have another go hopefully I'll be ready to start then? Best regards

Hi there I had another play with the core Inspected my work and tried a few things so that I can provide more detailed info. I checked everything on my core board (Smash TV) pcb I'm happy that I have constructed this correctly. My worry was that because I could not obtain an THP style SD card reader I used an SMD version instead but the joints are good so should not be an problem. The issue is that once I load a project file the core stops working. However if while in Mios studio with bootloader running you chose bootloader as the project it loads this and after reset does reboot into the bootloader..This indicates that the bootloader is running and that the interface can write to the core? When I load either Ng or KB I get a line that says 1 ignorable error resolved? After reset I get red text as though the core is not plugged in. Nothing appears to be running as I cannot select bootloader and reload that as Mios reports no core. The interface is still present "USB Audio Device" as i'm on a windows machine. I'm "guessing of course" that the NG project replaces the bootloader and is then not being loaded and causing some kind of lock up ? Is that 1 ignorable error a factor in this? As I stated in my last post the files appear to be created on the SD card as mentioned in the instructions. so I'm under the impression that my core is at least running the bootloader and updating to the NG project which appear to work in that it writes the files to the SD Card I proved this by formatting the card and reloading the project file and then checking the SD card. The only way I can get it running is to go back to ST link and reflash the bootloader. I was at least hoping to get as far as loading NG project without issues as I explained earlier I am clueless when it comes to software and this hicup right at the start hasn't done much for my confidence in getting a lot further with this. There is also a mention in the instructions about V1_019 bootloader mine is V1_018 cant see a later version anywhere is there a later one or have I misunderstood that?. I really have no idea what is happening I may try another micro usb cable if I can find one and a different SD card but other than that I'm out of ideas, I'm confident that the core board is correctly constucted (as that would be the most likely source of a constructional error) leaving unlikely as It may be that I could have a faulty STM module which would be a bit of a drag. Regards

Hi Thanks again Thorsten. Did actually fire the thing up last night St link forced me to upgrade firmware before it would talk. Loaded Mios bootloader and then opened Mios Terminal and then loaded Ng project Closed down restarted and it reported Ng loaded, But only the once I closed down and went off to read some more coming back later and restarting everything and Mios terminal said core not present after much messing about decided to take the SD card out and read it direct on the compuer. There was about 5 files present so decided to format and start again back to ST link reload bootloader Mios finds it ok load Ng but this time Mios studio will not find the core Files have been written to SD card could not find a way to get the core to be seen, I decided to clear it all down and reload Boorloader and this again is working correctly. Having now slept on it I wondered if the SD is not being read either the card type is not compatible or a bad joint on the reader, Or am I simply doing it wrong? Should mention The SD card is a 4gb SDHC as that was all I could find in the local shops. Also what is "SRIO"? Regards

Hi again Was about to start playing with my core as I found a window to start. I was reading through the methodology I noticed that the scan speed is 10x faster on the KB project. on Ng 3ms isn't much latency but there is between 5ms -8ms on the computer running the B4/Vb3 software to add to this. I've found that I start to notice latency at 10-12ms. Scanning 2 keyboards will be 6ms As I was hoping to implement 2 keyboards 18 drawbars 6-8 switches and 20 knobs.(give or take) Will one core manage this? or would it be better to say configure 1 core to scan the keyboards and one to do everything else then merge them? or use a core for upper and a core fore lower manuals and merge? I like the Idea of the faster scanning on the KB project esspecially as I need to scan 2 keyboards.Can this be done with 1 core? Also if using 2 cores I assume that they don't have to be the same? Although the STM32F4 core is pretty cheap to build so likely would be as cheap to build a second.The other question is can the scan speed be made faster on the NG for example 2x or 3x faster still alowing processing time for other functions. Latency on things like switches and knobs is acceptable Only the Keys, Drawbars and Leslie fast slow( mod Wheel) need to be in real time low latency Regards

Hi Thanks Thorsten Had a problem with my laptop latest windows update bombed it out I had to restore from old image after backing files up to external drive using linux. unfortunately I forgot to backup my bookmarks and had trouble finding and getting back to this post. Im hoping to find some time next week to fire up the core.hopefully it will work and I can get the bootloader loaded. So what you were saying is, if i'm sitting infront of my PET you have just handed me the tape backup of space invaders with a sheet which tells me which lines of code need editing once Its loaded? Regards

Thanks Thorsten Yes I can see that the NG would give me more options. As you can most likely tell I have no issues with electronics or mechanical Its what Ive been doing my entire working life, but computer programming I have never really tried. Last time I tried was on a 1kb basic machine at school( commadore PET) 30 odd years ago I think I managed to mess up a program with about 10 lines of code meanwhile everyone else had programmed space invaders using alpha numemic characters as the aliiens and missiles. That kind of finished me. I do however flash modules, pics, gals, and epromms and the like at work pretty often on serveral different platforms with at least 6 or 7 different programmers and software so uploading bin hex and other code isnt a problem. I guess my first stage will be to load the bootloader to my core and make sure its working properly? From what I can tell the project file sets up the defaults to start writting (creates the blank canvass)? From there I would need to write my own code to implement each function i.e keyscanning drawbars switches and knobs? Are there some simple tutroials that need just the core so I can 1. test my core and 2. have some confidence building success. I have to admit I am pretty usless with software takes me forever to configure factory built controllers in Cubase. I've even sold stuff because I can't get it working the way I wanted it too

Hi I'm New here so Hello and please excuse my ignorance I built a STM34F4 core last year with the intention of building a HUI clone but ended up modifying a D8B so I have a complete core (including the black smash tv board) in a drawer thats never been anywhere near a computer. I recently had my Fatar Sl161 die so have a 61 note keyboard for the use of so i was thinking a Hammond style contoller I have a set of 9 drawbars around somewhere i looked over the KB project files and it looks like i can do this with this core? What I need is some advice on other modules dout and din? and really how to get started. Do I need to buy modules first or can I start on programing without( have now idea how to program my limit was the basic program "10.Print "Something stupid or rude". 20. Goto 10. " Run" So far I've worked out I need to load the mios boorloader and install the mios program I'm guessing I can load the hex files from the KB project and edit that? or do I need more research time? Thanks in advance Regards