Ian_Hurlock

No problem Rowan Check your mail. My ph number is there. Give me a call and I'll sort it. Ian

No problem Rowan Check your mail. My ph number is there. Give me a call and I'll sort it. Ian

The overlay idea for these MB's could be well worth pursuing. Ian

The overlay idea for these MB's could be well worth pursuing. Ian

9 users 7 guests : me, TK ,LO, JS,dazzystar,Wancho,Jerrodumas

9 users 7 guests : me, TK ,LO, JS,dazzystar,Wancho,Jerrodumas

Not to mention the size

Not to mention the size

Thanks Dan..nice Progged another chip and got it to go. get down to www.colinfraser.com ther's a nice little midi to din sync and sync to midi all in one. Uses a cheap little 12c508 OTP chip Works real nice with my 606 and Ableton live. Ian

Looks nice ;D Suggestion : only label those buttons which need it. Use pieces of masking tape under the nobs etc so you can label them at will. Just like you would do on an analog mixer...........you know those things you plug mics and guitars into..........am I allowed to talk about guitars and mics :o :o ;) Ian

Hi Tk Just wondered if in your collection of circuits you would have a sync to midi converter. ? I have made one using a 12c508 but I can't get it to function TIA Ian

looks like a 16f84.mmmmm Had no problem with mine but then I built my own test / development gear ;) ;) Ian

The laser lads don't seem so keen to cut Ally due to the reflection in the laser. Ok I'll price @ 0.9mm elctro galv. I used this last time I made a box. Ian

Well Steve While we are going down the laser track maybe if we had a concensus on just what panel form would suit. Ie 100mm fader slot panel for say 8 faders. With enough room surrounding to support the sides. Do you have CAD ? Perhaps you have a design in mind. I will draw up a panel and see what I can get out of a 2400 x 1200 sheet of say electro galv at around 0.6. I'll get a price for lasering the whole sheet.. Something around the A4 sheet should suffice....I'll check it out. Ian

There's a company in Wellington that does a nice 2 x 40 LCD backlit and also the 18f452 and other chips, headers and misc components. They are www.pmb.co.nz contact Paul Bealing Very helpful Ian

Thanks TK Seems that 14 and 24 ppr are not uncommon. There are more opportunities for this product. I will see what my enquiries bring. I can see that, as far as mios is concerned, encoders are the way to go. They are prohibitive at present but we may be able to change that. Ian

Hi TK I have been searching for encoders for use in mios. A question What is/are the allowable PPR for these things. Can you spec me right up on these things Thanks ALSO ENCODER SUGGESTION I am looking at purchasing a quantity of encoders from China. I am trying to get a decent price at volume. It may be feasible to place a large order and reship from here while maintaining a good price. I don't mind attending to this. ;D Perhaps a large number could be despatched to a central point in Europe  or whatever for distribution. ( If some one would like to put their hand up ) ;) This is just a gauge to see what sort of volumes are needed for a competetive price. I have contacted a couple of companies already with regard to this and await their reply. If any have interest/suggestions of any sort they can post here or at my mail address. ( I know, Steve, you and LO are prob keen ) ;) Ian

Ok thanks for that Tk...shame but. Ian

mmmmm.. I don't think they send mmc. I asked this when I wanted to control Albleton Live. Then Ableton brought out Tap tempo and all was solved. Ken, if your sequencer accepts a midi event ie note, cc or whatever then you can use the MB to do it. I use the Mb to control most of my goodies. What do you intend to control with it ? Perhaps you could build the MB Seq and use a note event to sync your sequencer. A floorboard, Steve, is normally used by guitarists to operate the functions of a gat synth like the pod or zoom effect units. Basically a midi controller operated by your feet. Pots can be put in pedals ( like proel pedal etc ) and assigned to vol, expression etc. I have built the floorboard from this site to change banks in my drum module so I can change which samples I trigger in Ableton Live with my drum kit. 8) Ian

Steve, your a metal worker ;D I have used those snips,tin snips,shears or whatever, which have a small tongue cutter that protrudes below a flat face. You drill a hole and put the protruding part of the snips into the hole. Squeeze the handle and the tongue comes up and cuts against a slot in the flat surface above. These create a nice slotted hole. Do you recall their name or does anyone have a piccie of these things. I think they may be a solution for many on the site. Ian

Quite sane really :P :P :P Well my SID 6581 gets hot. All ten of them do :o :o  Hav'nt blown any up yet ;D LO uses the 8580 or whatever it is and he reckons his does'nt get hot. Glue a nice little heatsink on him. Therefore Gilles, I reckon, it's down to you and me working some pretty hot riffs thru our 6581's that get's em all hot ;) ;) Ian

That will all go on the one core ;D This from an earlier description by TK "Maybe I should define the possible cases in some equations which makes it more clear: max number of AIN (for faders, motorfaders, pots) pins: when motorfaders: 8 when one AIN module: 32 when two AIN modules: 64 else 8 max number of DIN: 128 max number of DOUT: 128 every button allocates 1 DIN pin every encoder/jogwheel allocates 2 DIN pins every LED allocates 1 DOUT pin LED-rings are multiplexed: 8 rings with 8*12 LEDs allocate 8 + 12 = 20 DOUT pins with the source code you can freely assign the control elements to the pins required for LC Emulation: MUST: one core module MUST: one graphical LCD or 2 * 2x40 LCDs WANTED: at least 8 rotary encoders WANTED: a scrub/jog wheel (9th encoder) OPTIONAL: led-rings (but values are also shown on LCD) WANTED: at least 32 buttons OPTIONAL: 32 additional buttons for 8 * solo/mute/rec/select OPTIONAL: 32 additional buttons for sequencer control (transport, bankswitching, etc.) WANTED: LEDs for the buttons in order to receive feedback from Logic OPTIONAL: 8 motorfaders (but not necessary at all when you use the split mode in order to swap the purpose of encoders and faders) OPTIONAL: one additional fader, but in this case you either have to pass on the motorfaders, or you have to use a second core module Good work Steve, a clean sweep on 4 topics this evening.he he he. Trying to catch up with Dan  ;) ' Ian

So what do you think TK ? Ian

Cheers ;D Ian

Nice Axel :o Could you tell me what your dimension for the faders spacing is. The spacing seems to work well with the 2 x 40's Well done Thanks ian