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  1. Thank you for the clarification! I didn't start yet since I want to be triple sure I do it right :)
  2. Thanks! Is that the only way? My core device is an Akai Force; it can send out CC messages using the knobs, but I don't see a way to do that via PC. The only way you can use PC is when selecting the midi channel properties; so it is a setting you change when editing the channel, not something done at runtime (like when playing live). This is why I was hoping to use CC messages. Awesome; the board has only space for 2; so I guess I can either use the 2 as stereo pair, or as 2 different mono devices (which should give me a total of 6 oscillators and 6 notes, if I understand this correctly; since each SID has 3 oscillators that can be played together or individually). Thanks for the clarification! So in the mios studio I upload the hex with the bootloader first, then the hex with the new MIOS and that should just work. I hope I won't brick the device... I am always nervous around anything that is not an arduino :)
  3. Thanks for your reply! 1) is the editor page this one? http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid_manual_ed.html I found the CTRLR editor there, and the other option is the java editor, which I will try on my windows machine 2) so I am OK if it just show 4 banks. Thanks! 3) how do you achieve that? Do you know which CC channel is sending out the program change and bank change? I tried all the 127 CC values and neither did work 4) I see, so it is expected to see just the 1***, since it is one stereo pair. 5) found a firmware on ucapps.de that seems newer than the one I have; although I do not understand if I need to update the firmware for the bootloader first and then update the actual device firmware or not. The documentation is not super clear, or I am just not much of a hardware engineer :) Thanks again for the hints; I am really glad I went the SID way :)
  4. Cheers, I bought a sammichSID that was half put together; took me a while to source the SID chips and the rest of the components but finally got it working. Now I have some questions that going through the manual didn't really find much of an answer; sorry in advance if those are too simple or easy for you. 1) The UI is quite daunting; so I am trying to set up the editor made in CTRL, but I was wondering if there are patch sets that users did share. It is much easier to start with a patch and experiment on it, compared to create them from scratch. So I was wondering if there is more than one bank of patches shared by users 2)My understanding of the banks is that there are 8 banks: A through H; although the patch editor in Mios studio seems to be able to see only banks A, B, C, D and H, while E and F are fundamentally not reachable. Why is that? Did I do something wrong when building the device and burned the IC that host the banks E and F? 3) If I want to drive the device from a sequencer for example; is there a way to switch programs and banks via CC? The midi implementation in the documentation has no info in regard to the CC used to change the program. I see that CC0 at hex 00h does change bank for example, but CC0 does not exist on my controller, it has 1 to 127, so I am not sure how to change programs remotely, because there is no such command via CC on the chart. Does anyone here address their Sammich via CC messages? 4) I see that my display show 1***, although I have 2 SID chip in it; so shouldn't it display 11**; since each of those numbers show the SID slotted in the device? The midibox SID which is the base for the Sammich, support 4 SID theoretically, right? 5) The device I have did came pre-installed with the OS; at boot it says MIOS 1.9g and then MidiboxSID v2.0rc38; do I have the latest version of the firmware on it? I am using MIOS Studio 2.4.9 on my computer. If I need to update the firmware, is there a guide that show it step by step? I never did anything like this to be honest. Thanks in advance for any help; I printed the manual and I am having quite a blast playing with all the parameters; I just wish to have a more extensive interface with physical knobs and buttons, like my other hardware synths; but this device is magical, especially for someone coming from a C64 in his youth, so thanks for making this possible.
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