[jsynth and macosx panther]

Ok thanks Thorsten,

just didn`t use the comand shell (terminal window) in osx. (unix virgin)

but after 30min it worked.

Unfortunately it hasn't been released yet, so you have to download the sources from the CVS view and compile it by yourself (requires Java JDK):

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=41208

I think i wait till they release it.

Btw.: great to hear that MBHP_USB is running under Mac OSX!  

Thats exactly my opinion. It works great. Thanks again.

chriss

[jsynth and macosx panther]

Hello,

just trying to open jsynth on my new g4 i have noticed some troubles with the SID driver. It does not show up in the synthlist and i can not open any SIDpatches from the library.

Is it possible?

And i am not able to get a comunication with my usb module, although it is working with other applications w/o problems.

But that seems to be a problem of Jsynth i guess.

Does anybody made the same experiences?

chriss

[CSG 8580R5 / 5092]

sorry d2k,

i already got 2 at ebay.

chriss

[Transparent Buttons for those cool LED-Stuff?]

www.mec.dk

Farnell and schuricht has them. Search for "multimec"

chriss

[What soundcard are you using?]

Hi all,

But in the meantime I also switched to RME Hammerfall DSP (+Multiface) - no driver & latency issues anymore +  8 analog IOs for realtime processing + support for Linux.  For me this card + the PC software are a replacement for the even more expensive Fx gear

I am still searching for a good laptop/soundcard combination. Most preferred is a powerbook G4 and RME multiface. I once read the laptop test on their homepage and it seemed to be that the computer and its interna play an important role when measuring performance (I/O latency). But this test is some kind of ancient, so if someone has a mac or a RME please tell me your experiences and your thoughts on this topic.

Especially if someone is using a laptop(pc/mac).

And Thorsten can you tell me what kind of computer your are using and how low you can go with the latency when using the RME?

thanks a lot

chriss

[Midibox1.5b reports]

hThanks Thorsten,

for the answers.

1.2.3.4. cool, good to know

5. i don´t send a lot of CCdata. but sending note on/off on one channel to all 4 sids. maybe thats the reason. i will just play a little bit more and report you.

6. that makes sense. i will try that today.

chriss

[Midibox1.5b reports]

Hello all,

thanks Thorsten again for that wonderfull musikinstrument.

It works great and is very very powerfull synth.

A few answers, which came up during testing.

1. In the WT menu, my slaves (pic18F) behave not like the core. For example: in postion 0 i set the WT to "ply", then moving to to postion 1, then moving back to position 0 and the Playmode is -- again. ??

2. When making changes in the WT menu (slaves) they crash and i have to select the patch again?

3. The polymode is not avaible anymore? When opening the polypatches it appears on the lcd but when changing the mode it is away?

4. How does the sync with midiclock work? i mean how does the code translate incoming midiclock data? I would like to know, how your setup looks like  when syncing a WTpatch to midiclock. And is the speedrate of the WT in anyway translateable in Bpm?

5. Sending data from Logic and having Link enabled, i got stucking notes (every minute or so). But only on the slaves. Is this a problem coming from Logic?

6. Are the ledrings still going to be supported? (it would be the first time i build them, so i am a little bit anxious to see how this works). And i etched a pcb allready based on the MB16E pinout.

And one little offtopic:

How can i tell Logic not to send incoming midi data to the output. I can delete the connection from the inport to the sequencer, to avoid midifeedback. But then i can not record any midibox data. Any idea?

Thanks for all hints and answers.

chriss

[USB Module Probs]

Hi,

could you please check if it works when you upload all patches a second time?

It makes no difference, to upload them twice. All the seq patches, except the seq#67, are missing. On every patch the MB sid sends a string back, but on the SeqPatches it sends nothing, then sending on #67, and then all the newpatches.   And in the end of the upload Jsynth hangs itself up. (could not play back banks only patches, it says and i have to close Jsynth.)

But in the meantime i plugged the USB module into a friends powerbook G4 running under OSX, and midi i/o is working. Didn´t had the chance to test sysex upload though.

Great module!

chriss

[14 bit encoder input]

Hi Thorsten,

I am planning some kind of robotdevice, and need to read 14 (or16) bit, from standard encoders, and send them to the computer. (5 encoders total)

I did try this with the enc_speed example and it works nice. (but only sending to the LCD):

yes, the hardware has to support 14-bit values. Most prefered are NRPNs or SysEx streams.

what do i have to change in the code to get these values into the computer? And what is the best kind of stream (pitchbend, NRPNs or SysEx)?

And just that i have some kind of idea how fast i can move the encoder, how many ticks per second can the pic handle? Thats because i must know the position of my little encoders (robotaxis) very precisly.

Is this all possible with MIOS?

Thanks

chriss  

[USB Module Probs]

What about the the Jsynth?

# The Microsoft driver isn't able to send one SysEx string which is distributed over multiple buffers without errors. The complete SysEx string has to be sent from a single buffer (this affects the MIOS download, in the MIDI-Ox port config menu, you have to increase the Low level Output buffer size from 256 to 2048 ).

This works for me ( 2048 ), but what about the Patch upload with Jsynth? Since V1.5b, I can´t get some patches on the Bankstick (P#60-70 or so). Is it possible to load them with midiox? (And these  SeqPatches are so damm rocking, i really miss them)

chriss

[USB Module Probs]

Hi all,

after putting win XP on my laptop (before Win98se) my USB module is working very nicely. One thing i recogniced is, that after moving few times, my Usb port stops scanning( not the USb module though). After sending something from the port to the USb module its fine again. and so on. Any idea?

Sweet!  

Was etching the layout difficult with some of the small traces, and what process did you use (including what paper if you did toner transfer) to etch?

I don't think I can make the USB layout much more home etch friendly but I am interested in whether it presents a problem to for those using toner transfer.

Have fun!

Smash

Etching was easy but i was just wondering why you did this MidiIn1;MidiIn2;MidiOut2;MidiOut1, frontpanel arrangment?

BTW: did you made a tiny PCB already?

chriss

[Bauteile!!!!! Wo bekomme ich diese]

Hi midimeter,

die Pics bekommst du von Microchip persönlich und dazu noch Gratis. Als Sampleorder. Einfach auf die Homepage gehen und unter "samples" ein paar Fragen beantworten. (unbedingt den 24LC256-I/P mitordern für die Banksticks)

Für die Encoder musst Du einen lokales Elektonikgeschäft suchen, welche Dir die Bauteile bestellen kann. Ansonsten www.rs-components.de, wo sie aber ein bißche teurer sind.

chriss

[my Siddesign so far]

Hi All,

nice that you like it.

That had to be some work!! Especially all that SMD stuff putting on the PCBs...

That wasn´t the main work, aktually that was the funny part, always dealing with this dip devices its very amusing putting these little bugs on a selfmade layout. And by the way it looks so cool, like a real PC mainboard.

And don`t forget about the drilling, although i had to drill more then i wanted (doublesided).

So all DOUTs and DINs are on that board there?

Yes, most of them under the Display and the ledmatrix.

Did you design it in eagle? Can we have the file?  

Just interested in that file!

Have you made the PCB yourself? Or ordered it somewhere?

Sure you can have the eagle file. just send me your email. The PCB is handmade by myself.

...makes me a little scared to build the MBsid, but then again I was afraid to start the LC, and I've almost finished it now!

Me too. This i never dreamed of, till Thorsten came and encouraged us to start building midiboxes and helps us on every step. Thanks Thorsten.

chriss

[my Siddesign so far]

took me half a year to come so far and i am still need to build the frontpanel and the case. (and of course the ledrings which are sitting on an extra pcb)

I had following goals:

1. to minimize the wirering (that means i had to do a lot of of planning, using double sided pcb and etching A4)

2. to get as flat as possible (that means i had to use smt)

3. to use an internal powersupply

To the Powersupply:

After having everthing assembled, i noticed huge noise at the output. First digital noise then 50Hz hume. So, with the help of Thorsten i came to a better solution: i split the +5V supply for the core/slaves and the Sid modules (i could do that because i use 2x6Volt transformer). Clean sound know.

BTW: I measured 300mA for the core/slaves with all leds on and 140mA for the 4Sid`s 12Volt. Didn´t measure the +5V for the 4Sid´s but i looks like 200-300mA.

Question are welcome.

chriss

[lfo sync button]

Hello Thorsten,

thanks a lot, it works beautiful.

Hope this mod makes sense!

chriss

[MIDIbox SID V1.5]

Hello Thorsten,

cool, i am so anxious to try that out, but i can´t find the MIOS file under Concepts->MIOS->Download.

chriss

[lfo sync button]

Hello Thorsten,

so half of this little mod works so far, the button does what it should do. But not the leds though.

i changed in cs_menu_leds.inc  the file from

;; TMP5[4..0]: LFO waveform

     call      CS_MENU_MS_GetSIDBase

     call      CS_MENU_Hlp_AddLFOOffset

     swapf      INDF0, W

     andlw      0x07

     call      MIOS_HLP_GetBitORMask

     IFCLR      INDF0, 0, movlw 0x00

     movwf      TMP5

to

;; TMP5[6..0]: LFO waveform

     call      CS_MENU_MS_GetSIDBase

     call      CS_MENU_Hlp_AddLFOOffset

     swapf      INDF0, W

     andlw      0x07

     call      MIOS_HLP_GetBitORMask

     IFCLR      INDF0, 0, movlw 0x00

     movwf      TMP5

is that all?

and in the cs_menu_io_tables.inc

DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 0,                        5,      1      ; LFO Sine LED

     DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 1,                        5,      0      ; LFO Triangle LED

     DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 2,                        4,      7      ; LFO Saw LED

     DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 3,                        4,      6      ; LFO Pulse LED

     DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 4,                        4,      5      ; LFO Random LED

   DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 5,                        4,      4      ; LFO Sync Asn

   DOUT_ENTRY      TMP5, 6,                        4,      3      ; LFO Sync All

thanks

chriss

BTW: Is "Lfo Random" not supported? in the menu the Lcd tells me "off"and the led  does not light.

[mios1.2 and midi sid stepB troubles and questions]

Hello Thorsten,

finally we can close this thread, i found the mistake. Now everthing works fine. Since i build only one core for the 18F hardwired to the to_com interface, i had to put all the slavespics into that core. But the 16F877 needs a 20MHZ crystal!!!

ok stupid me and sorry for the wasted time.

But without you i will still search.

thanks

chriss

[lfo sync button]

Hello Thorsten,

thanks a lot, i will try it later this day.

chriss

[lfo sync button]

Hello all,

i build the stepC of the Mbsid (90% finished) and everthing is working. (i will do the report later in an other topic).  

Now i want add a button to control the sync of the Mbsid lfo, just like the lfo waveformbutton.

One button and two leds (off,asn,allnote).

How can i do that?

thanks

chriss

[FYI: MBSID CS panel ordered]

hello,

all that sounds so nice, my next two years are planned.

Hope that Thorsten is slowing down so we can catch up a littlebit.

Unbelievable.

chriss

[mios1.2 and midi sid stepB troubles and questions]

Hi Thorsten,

thanks for the circumstances, at the moment i have some trouble with my JDM programmer, but i definetly downloaded the last version.  

Hope to check evererthing out before i have my midi interface.

chriss

[Measurements of the ALPS Encoders]

hi pay_c,

the point with these encoders is that alps has made different versions of them, i guess depending where you live.

i got mine from schuricht in germany and they don´t have a nipple underneath the schaft.

But the pinout  compared to the official datasheet from there site is different though. thats why thorsten always has the little extra drawing for the alps stecB on his din_in pdf´s.

The datasheet posted above is absolutly correct.

chriss

[mios1.2 and midi sid stepB troubles and questions]

Hello Thorsten,

just the same. sorry.

What i didn´t say the last time: Your whole sidproject is really awsome. Never dreamed of doing something like that.

thanks

chriss

[mios1.2 and midi sid stepB troubles and questions]

Hi Thorsten,

thanks alot so far. Yeah you answer the questions with the steb B documentation.

Stec11B: it works nicely after changing the main.asm and the mios_tables to detented.

Unfortunatly the sidv1.4_to_com is not talking to my pc. no ping, no changing device. (just plugged one core with the sid v1.4 to my pc). The LCD prints >sid v1.4< and from time to time >Midi time out whats up< and it does not react on note on/off.

thanks

chriss