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  3. pcb for alternate SEQ4 panel design

    in Bulk Orders

    Posted

    Personally, i´d not recommend a 4x40 display "narrow" approach for the SEQ, because you will be covering the display with your hand when operating GP buttons 1-8 and encoders 1-8 half of the time.

    I agree with this, it will not be very ergonomic IMO. I find having the displays and the encoders spread out on the Wilba panel really encourages two handed usage of MBSeq :)

  5. AOUT redesign

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Hi TK,

    As I mentioned at the beginning, I'm also not 100 percent sure about this. I started thinking this after recently setting up testing my first AOUT module with the MBSEQ :)

    But I also I recently discussed this with a local Eurorack owner and he referenced this module:

    http://www.analoguehaven.com/intellijeldesigns/uscale/

    which specifically deals with a 10V pitch range CV.

    I just posted a message over at muffwiggler's to ask some of the modular synth experts over there. I think they will know it much better than me!

    David

  6. AOUT redesign

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Hi NorthernLightsX. Maybe I was not clear in my post, sorry!

    To put it another way, based on this statement:

    A PSU which outputs +/- 6V should be sufficient (if I'm not wrong now, maybe somebody can confirm)

    My understanding is that if you run the opamps from +/-6V then you can't generate the 0-10V which we want for controlling VCOs.

    Personally I'd stick with running the AOUT from +- 12V to +-15V, which in my experience is what most analogue synthesizers are using.

    Hopefully that clarifies what I meant :)

  7. AOUT redesign

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    I'm no expert with modular synths, so apologies in advance if this is nonsense!

    But, I thought the 1v/oct standard has a range of 0-10v. If the opamps are running off of +/-5v then doesn't that mean you can't get 0-10v from the AOUT?

    I already have 1 original AOUT and personally I was planning on doing 4 channels as nonbalanced i.e. 0-10v, for controlling the pitch of VC oscillators, and 4 channels balanced i.e. +/-5v for doing LFO / modulation type tasks.

    If the new board can't get above +5v, doesn't it mean the new AOUT board would be limited in this sense?

  10. AOUT Settings not remembered

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    No, the setting is stored in MBSEQ_GC.V4 (global configuration file), which is located in the root directory.

    Hi Thorsten,

    Thanks for the info. Typically, after 2 days of this behaviour - today when I turned on MBSeq it now remembers the settings :rolleyes:

    Could you please check if this file exists?

    And when you open this file: which values are assigned to the AOUT parameters?

    I double checked the SD card and yes I have the MBSEQ_GC.V4 file and it has the settings for the CV page.

    Sorry for the false alarm :)

  11. AOUT Settings not remembered

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    Hi all,

    I finally got my AOUT hooked up to my MBSeq v4, and it worked first time :thumbsup:

    I have run the configuration using the CV Config page and all seems OK. The only weird thing is that every time I turn on the MB Seq, it has forgotten my settings i.e. which Module I have selected PRng per CV channel etc. From the MBSEQ_HW.V4 file there is a mention of a file called MBSEQ_CV.V4, but I don't have that on my SD Card. And I can't find it in svn!

    Would this be why my settings are not being saved? If so, where can I find that file, or should it be created automatically by MB Seq?

    Thanks in advance

    David

  12. MIDIbox SEQ V4 Release + Feedback

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    I run my MBSeq synced to my DAW as a Midi clock slave. When using the GP buttons in Phrase mode to switch between sets of patterns, is there a way to synchronise the switching between patterns to the beat? I tried a couple of recordings today and experimented with the SyncChange and RATOPC options but the Phrases seem to jump immediately when I press the GP (so that the MIDI synced recording in my DAW ends up off the beat)...

    actually scratch that bit, I realised today that the skip is created more by the program changes I was sending from the Mixer. MBSeq is perfectly in time without them :)

  13. MIDIbox SEQ V4 Release + Feedback

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    Hi Tk and everyone else,

    I've been playing with the recent 4.059 upgrade and +1 thanks for the amazing Euclid generator!

    Recently I've tried to create an entire track on the MBSeq using the Phrase mode and I have some questions:

    When setting a group of patterns in the Song / Phrase screen, the default is that the Seq uses 1:A1, 2:A1, 3:A1, 4:A1. Is there a way to modify the x in the X:A1 patterns, other than using the Select > Take over current patterns function?

    I run my MBSeq synced to my DAW as a Midi clock slave. When using the GP buttons in Phrase mode to switch between sets of patterns, is there a way to synchronise the switching between patterns to the beat? I tried a couple of recordings today and experimented with the SyncChange and RATOPC options but the Phrases seem to jump immediately when I press the GP (so that the MIDI synced recording in my DAW ends up off the beat)...

    Thanks in advance

    David

  14. Ctrlr based editor for MBSID V2

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted

    Hi Bob,

    I'm afraid I don't use Ableton, so I can't comment on that. But one thing you can try is to enter Edit mode in the Ctrlr VSTi (right click the panel, select Edit mode from memory). Then go through the parameters bar on the right of the Edit screen and look for the MIDI Ins and Outs as well as the channel selected for the VSTi, make sure they are what you expect.

    mk

  15. SEQ remote control for Lemur

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    Here's a nearly fully functional Seq remote control for Lemur. It's early days yet, but LED, encoder, button and LCD are all working acceptably. Encoders are set for drag up and down to change.

    Wow! That is excellent, thanks for sharing your work :thumbsup:

    I've only had time to quickly fire it up and check connectivity to my hardware, but that worked fine. I will spend a bit of time with it and try to provide some feedback.... other than wow!

  18. Ctrlr based Editor for MBFM

    in MIDIbox FM

    Posted · Edited by monokinetic

    TK, firstly I want to say thanks a lot for the Ctrlr editor for MBFM, I've been using it a lot over the last week and it really does help to integrate the synth into my DAW :)

    But unfortunately I seem to have a problem editing the drums. I'm using Ctrlr 965 on Mac OS X (10.6.8) and I tried both as a VSTi inside of Cubase Artist 6 and standalone. I click the drum page button on the left of the Ctrlr Editor and the drum controls show up. But nothing makes any difference to the synth (the normal Inst1 page is working fine to edit a normal instrument though).

    I checked the MIDI which is being sent out and I noticed that the <type> byte is different between the InsX pages and the drums page.

    This is what I see in the Ctrlr MIDI monitor when I move a control on the inst page:

    f0 00 00 7e 49 01 06 08 00 14 01 f7

    This is what is sent from moving a control on the drum page:

    f0 00 00 7e 49 01 06 18 00 10 04 f7

    Is the 18 at the 8th position correct?

    Does anyone else have the drum page working?

    Also, I noticed that when I use Ctrlr as a VST, the Ins1 to 4 and drum buttons open up the correct pages. But in the standalone those buttons don't make a change! Maybe it is a Ctrlr bug, but I thought I'd mention it here as well....

    David

  20. Continuum surface

    in Parts Questions

    Posted

    I can safely say using a Continuum to control some of my Kyma sounds over OSC was one of the most fun afternoons of my multitouch sound making life :) Unfortunately I was just using it in a friends studio. Personally I didn't think much of the built in sounds, but I know others who use them happily. As high bandwidth multitouch controllers go, I've not used anything more expressive yet.

    Lippold has good detailed explanation of the inner workings here:

    http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/overview/MecDesign.html

    I thought about some experiments with hall effect sensors and so on, but in the end for my DIY efforts to get a similar effect, I'm experimenting with force sensitive resistors. You should also keep an eye of Madrona labs sound plane and what Roger Linn has up his sleeve..... oh and http://openmtproject.sourceforge.net/ are doing some interesting things as well.

    These are interesting times in the field of NIME :)

  22. MIDIbox CV V2 Concept

    in MIDIfication

    Posted

    But the possibility to route analog input signals into the modulation matrix is on the agenda :)

    I almost missed this point, wow cool! Do you think we could get into quantising external CV signals? That would be killer :D

    So my suggestion I've not seen in the thread yet would be to also support some analogue trigger in and outs, for example to sync external analogue LFOs, sequencers etc.

  23. Virtual MIDIbox SEQ V4 for iPad

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    TK, I have been thinking about the idea of tablet interfaces for MBSeq..... How possible is it to create an entire remote interface? Especially I wonder if it's possible to do remote display (no LCDs on hardware Seq) via MIDI or OSC and still have acceptable performance.

    I've also been thinking about this. My main motivation is to be able to take iPad + a simple CORE / SDcard for a live set, so that I don't have to take out my whole MBSeq and risk it being damaged etc. I'd hate for all those hours of hard work soldering and building to be lost.

    Anyway, I spent an evening looking at the Sysex / CC remote files in the svn/docs directory. My conclusion was that the majority of the settings that we can edit using a front panel could be edited using Lemur / iPad and some clever sysex. The main challenge would be to actually create the Lemur template, something that I won't have time for until summer holidays....

    If anyone makes some progress on such a template in the meantime I'd happily be a tester :)

    Oh and one other crazy idea I had was for a web interface to MBSeq. This could be interesting from a cross platform perspective. Lemur is iPad only at the moment, and I'm not so sure that they will port to Android. You could have nice features like a Ableton-esque grid view of all patterns showing their names, faders for the MixerMap settings etc.

    TK: I'm thinking out loud here, but would such a thing be theoretically possible?

  24. using seq v4?

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    Made me think that maybe the SeqV3 enclosure I am using is missing a button or so ;)

    Hi there, I also use a MBSeq3 front panel, and yes there are sometimes button functions that you may miss!

    I found the bookmarks features a great way to fix this. Press Menu + Select and you can program shortcuts to useful pages that you may not be able to access from the MBSeq3 front panel directly. Personally I have shortcuts to TrackSelect, StepSelect, ToggleSelect - that covers most of what I need.

    I think the manual or this section of the forum has TK's instructions of how to use the bookmarks....

  25. MBBLM on iPad via Lemur

    in MIDIbox BLM

    Posted

    ..thought about playing live initially, so that was the mindset for "midi cabling required"..

    Aha I may have caused confusion mentioning the MIDI interface. Sorry if I did. You can of course just use the WiFi functionality (there's a daemon for Lemur which you run on your computer and that does the magic of converting the WiFi connection to a virtual MIDI connection). And this functionality is great in the studio, you can sit where you like and jam on MBSeq, very cool!

    Anyway, just FYI:

    I tested the MIDI interface (M-Audio Uno) with cables going from iPad -> Camera Connection Kit -> M-Audio Uno -> MBSeq and that also works perfectly. Lemur immediately recognised the MBSeq! And the reason I wanted this is that I don't trust WiFi in a live situation (I had it cause terrible problems with wireless microphones in a gig last year). I never had MIDI cables do that :)

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