serge

Working for me here in Belgium !!.. 8)

Hi Peter, you could make a backup of the data of a bank by saving the data to sysex file with vsysexbox. A feature to dowload all banks with one mouseclick is planned but not yet available. Regards, Serge

Nice tune :) I find you should try to do the arpeggiating synth-line with a SID module ;D .... and maybe control the filters with the midibox... ::) The result might sound the same, but would be more on-topic. ;D Regards, Serge

Hi, I will collect the info I type on custom VMB file creation in the following text document. http://users.pandora.be/sdrsite/sites/serge/vmidibox/dev/VMBformatinfo.txt This should grow to some kind of AAQ (Already Asked Questions) for customizing vmidibox. Regards, Serge

Hi Thorsten, I want the control to look like a real dipswitch with labels for each switch. I could not find such component for C++ builder so I will program it from scratch ... it will be great to be used with bit-encoded midi codes, but also for other purposes. Luckily GenMarx wants to help me with the component's graphics coding so I can make flickerfree double-buffered dipswitch. :) I hope to finish it this weekend, anyone feel free to send your graphical dipswitch skin designs, I would like to incorporate several styles in the component. Regards, Serge

Ian, here's how you can do this : first create a sysex file with vmidibox that uses 16 buttons to select each of the banks. (code is : (see presetlist)) FF 02 0n | Switch to BankStick Bank n (n = 0..F) You can test this first in connection with your real mb64. If this is OK, modify the matching button code in vcustombox.vmb for example for button 1 change the following code : [button_136] Type=Button Caption=1 Tag=1001 Height=25 Width=25 Left=38 Top=380 You can see that the tag value is '1001' : this links the button to the matching action 01 and should not be changed. Also the type should stay 'Button' The other properties may be changed as you wish : The value for caption should contain the name if the bank. You can easily delete all redundant button and fader code, but keep the form and LCD display data !. Good luck, Serge

Ian, I'm not sure if I understand your question. What do you mean by bank positions ? The INI file stuff is all intended for the VIRTUAL midibox64. With this you can configure a custom virtual midibox layout. Regards, Serge

Hi Thorsten, I'm glad you like the concept. I am curious to see the results of your perl script. Of course there's still a lot of work to do for me, so it may be that the file syntax still changes a little bit and for sure a lot of features will be added ! ;). I will try to implement your toggle control soon. By the way I changed vmidibox64 a little bit : there now is is a button to load *.vmb files. (this is just a different extension for the same ini files). By default, customdesk.vmb is used when it is found in the application directory. The intention is to make it possible to have a collection of .vmb files in a 'customfiles' subdirectory of the application directory. Regards, Serge

I don't like popup menus... but maybe I can make a simple shortcut :D that pops up a menu that gives you all advanced choices that are shortcuts now... (I will keep all shortcuts in there as well... )

Hi, I added the possibility to load bitmaps on your virtual mb64 faderdesks today. Regards, Serge

Hi, Today I added a little code in vmidibox64, that may be of interest for all you that like to build hardware midiboxes. Using the file customdesk.ini in the application directory, you can customize a the faderdesk. To give you a preview, the current version supports modification of all that was available in the previous vmidibox tools. This means you can move, size, label buttons and pots, ... most ini settings are easy to understand. I might consider to make a customdesk.ini description document one day ::). The value of the Tag property for each control is important : this links a button to a property in the editor. See the example to understand which value range this can have. When I have more time I will extend this functionality. I plan to add a lot of features to this INI format including skinnable pots and buttons, background skin, ... I still need to decide which components (free, open source ?) I will finally use and include for these purposes. Regards & Happy customizing, Serge

Hi Traizor, : :-[ Okay I enabled the buttons at startup now. : I will add it to the to-do list. What about another exotic shortcut for this trick ? (I wish to keep the basic interface as clean as possible) Regards, Serge

Hi, I made some quick changes to vmidibox64 (on your requests ;D ): - You can now copy and paste pot and button properties using CTRL-C, CTRL-V. - CTRL-ALT-S saves the midi in port, midi out port, sysexsendspeed to vmb64presets.ini these settings are loaded at startup and have the following structure in vmb64presets.ini : [APPLICATIONPRESETS] MIDIINPORT=1 MIDIOUTPORT=2 SYSEXSENDSPEED=120 Regards, Serge

Hi Duggle, I cannot find propsaver, can you tell me where I can find it ? I am curious to test it, but I guess I will not use an additional component , but just add 2 lines to save and load port settings to INI file. The only problem to implement my to-do list at the moment is time... Best regards, Serge

Hello, yes, I can describe how you can try the other possibility : Vmidibox can save to a INI file. You could edit this INI file, convert it back to a sysex file with Thorsten's mk_syx script, then load this sysex back to vmidibox. Anyway I will add the copy and past feature to the 'to do' list... Regards, Serge

Hello, If I understand your question well, this is what I would suggest to implement : would it be OK if you could "copy and paste" entire parameter sets from on pot or button to another ? Regards, Serge

Okay, I will add it to the 'future feature' list...

Hello Traizor, the program was made in C++ builder. I appreciate your offer to help and I think you can possibly help me indeed. Let me know if you are really serious about this. I also downloaded kylix 3 this weekend, and I am planning to compile for linux. I would love to port vmidibox to kylix3 (C++), if you wish you may investigate how to send sysex undr kylix3 ? I think it has not yet been done ever? But first I think I need to to finish the fully user-customizable faderdesk by myself , and for this the only problem is lack of time. (You will love the programming concept) ;D Regards, Serge

;)

::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

:) Thanks !

Hello Yadministator , Would it be possible to make a 'superfolder' where you can see all the latest posts combined in one view ? This would avoid having to browse all folders if one just wish to glance at the latest rumors ? Also a small note on the multilingual forum name : Nederlands Contributie ter Nederlands ??? is incorrect ----- Nederlands Contributie in het Nederlands :) is much better ! Regards, Serge

The new forum looks great !!!!! :) PaRaLaX & Thorsten you are heroes ;) Regards, Serge