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.