Ian_Hurlock

Hey Cameron You may be thinking that Pete is getting me to fit some pedals/pots to the flooboard circuit on the main page. I will be using just 4 pot inputs to the MB64 to control his pod for expression etc He has created an environment for Logic that controls the pod in the same fashion as he requires live. Which means basically everything the pod can do. We will be using this to teach an MB64 core to use as the basis for the pod controller. As for the mecahnics / design......I'm an engineer not a panelbeater. He'll get the thing in a square box !!!! There's an example of my box on the brag page. Regards Ian

Some advice Don't start..........you won't be able to stop building the damn things !!!!! Go for ya life ! There's plenty of help on this forum Good luck Ian

The one you need is second in your list 16f877-20/P 20 mhz Man!! you guys pay very little for your pics. Ian

OOOOH It makes noise !!!! TK I am using logic 4.8 and the enviro for the SID won't load. Could you save a version in something below V 5 and bang it on the site Yipeee Ian

Pull ups thru 10k ? Ian

Thanks TK I picked up the J10 thing but was going to pose the question anyway......good shot. Thanks again Ian

Further to my questions about the SID connections : Ok junction 2 goes to 7 But... on the SID there is another connection called MU which comes from the 595 pin 14. Could you tell me where this connects on the core ? Thanks Ian

I don't think there is an addition for this on the MB However i was wrong once b4. There is a simple circuit using the 877 on another site that is linked to from here. http://go.to/edrum/ This looks ok but I am not sure if anyone on this forum has made it. There are some samples of the kit being played so I guess it goes ! ian

So it seems that I also do not really need the LCD on the core for the SID either. Is this right If so then what do i do with these left over connections from the PIC. I don't really need the buttons either do I ? TIA Ian

Ok sorry I got your name wrong ian aka PC Jimmy

Hi Sacsha I have one word for macwreck....."whatever !" But seriously he is right...though I hate to say it !! I have built some triggers using some practice pads with piezo discs siliconed to the back of them. They work good. I use them with my Alesis DM5. I buy Piezo's for about $1 NZ. You will , of course, have to build something to accept the signal from the piezo's. There is a link to an easy drum module project somewhere on the ucapp home page I think. If you need any help with this let me know. I could mail you some digitals of my heads. Macwreck is right, I am making some heads designed similar to the roland " V " type. For this I am rolling some aluminium flat bar into circles and then using the Roland mesh head for the skin. Skins are about $50 nz for the 12" and I get 5 circles per length of ally @ $25 nz a length. Even the Roland " V " heads are only a piezo disc trigger. They use a cone shaped piece of foam glued to the piezo disc that contacts with the mesh skin to carry the vibration from the skin to the trigger. very simple but very effective. I have a " V " head which I pulled to bits to find this out He he he ! Basically you can glue a piezo to anything you like, give it a whack and it will work ian

yeah that's cool Thanks Serge Ian

Sorry Serge How's this..............there are 16 bankstick storage positions available. Can I name them once I have saved setups to them. So that when I choose a setup from the bankstick I have a name rather than a number from 1 - 16 Hope that's a bit clearer Cheers Ian

Ok I've started work on the SID + MB64. For testing I will not require too much out board gear ie Pot Matrix and leds and most buttons. Only the first button matrix for control of the 64 core. Could you answer some questions please. 1 AN 0 - 7 are grounded if no pots are used ? 2 Junction "2" on the core diagram shows only the connections to power ie 5v and ground. Where do the connections for the SID attach to the core. That is, SC,MU,RC,SO Could you advise pin numbers as apposed to letters as there are multiples of these connections on the core diagram. 3 The led extension is left off all together .OK ? 4 What to do with the " OUT " left over on pin 19 of the core PIC. ? 5 What to do with MUX A, B, C when no pot matrix is connected. I intend to just test the thing via the core midi in with the Logic environment you made to establish which hardware controls I will end up with in the 19" rack version. I trust this is the best way to attack this thing ? Sorry there are so many Q's BTW. I'm up to 13 x 6581's now. I think I may have a sickness for them !!! Love the picture ! Regards Ian

Is it my imagination or did I see somewhere that we can name our bank positions ? That is so a name is displayed for each bank chosen on the lcd of a mb64. All this stuff about using the ini etc...what does this mean TIA Ian Hurlock

Hi TK I have had a look at your SID enviro. Cool. I have looked long and hard at the SID bits page also. Still I cannot work out wether I can control all the goodies( functions ) on the SID from just 1 core mb64. Looking at the Logic enviro ( and counting up the knobs ) I see 60 knobs. However there are some other adjustable parameters. What are these things. Bottom line is how many knobs are needed to get it all from this thing ? Also, does the audio input accept a normal mono analogue stream ? TIA Ian