DrBunsen

Well, each one can store and play a totally different patch, and can also be modulated differently by the PIC engine, as well as playing a separate melody over MIDI. So it's effectively a completely separate additional synth in the same (or a different) box. Everyone's idea of a nice sound is different. ;D You can sequence each oscillator separately, so you have the choice of playing 3 single osc voices (through one filter) or one 3 osc voice, per SID. Yup.

And they're the CPUs in Macs now. Gee, I wonder if this means Apple will drop their prices *cough*notbloodylikely*cough* Still when you compare against similar speed and spec PCs, the Apples usually work out as the same price or cheaper.

Like the new .sig. True, so true...

>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( STRYYYYYYYD >:( >:( >:( >:( ;D

Just got a reply from them saying discounts on shipping are about 20-40% on further items, not free.

10 pcs 8x8 dot-matrix LED display - 16 pins for 64 LEDs Buy It Now price: US $9.90 Postage costs: US $10.00 Quantity: 75 available That's 75 lots of 10. Seller also has 5x7 matrix, cheap LEDs, LCDs, VFDs and combines postage

The faders man .... they're moving .... ON THEIR OWN!!! Wooooaaahh....

You want to run 256 channels? ???

Perhaps it would be worth asking Doepfer what DAC they are using in this new prototype. Not that Doepfer are likely to be using "cheap" components, but they must have checked to make sure of continued supply, and accuracy.

There are lots of different kinds of RAID. The wikipedia article is a good starting point. The main ones you'll be interested in are RAID 0 (striped) and RAID 1 (mirrored). Mirrored RAID is basically making a real-time backup of one drive onto another ie all writes are done to both disks at once. If one drive fails, you have all your data safe. Striped RAID improves read and write speeds by splitting the data across two disks. Basically it writes alternating blocks to each disk, treating them as one volume. In theory this doubles your throughput, although there are overheads. Problem is, if one disk goes down, your volume is toast, so you want ultra-reliable disks (Seagates) and regular backup. You can also do a combined 0+1 for speed and security if you have four disks. You can do RAID on any kind of disk, SCSI, ATA, SATA, Firewire, even flash drives and floppies. It's probably best to use a hardware RAID PCI card if you can afford one, as this will take load off the CPU. You can also get server motherboards with hardware RAID onboard. These will often also have two CPU sockets :D

Hey great idea! They go for next to nothing at the charity shops, or you can find them on the street - especially now that it's summer down here :D

Lights Out Deluxe - 25 lighted matrix buttons - 4 hours to go!

20x2 RS232 VFD am eBay

Anyone in .au know of an equivalent supply house to McMaster Carr?

You're better off using a heat gun than a flame on plexi IMHO. Or putting the plexi and the mould into an oven.

Wow. I got the same results out of a 1995 Powermac. If you go the second machine route, you might want to check out the price of a Mac Mini or an iMac, with an external Firewire HD and a Firewire or USB audio/MIDI interface. Dual Intel Core2 CPUs for less than you might think, and they'll run Windows, Linux and OS X.

20x2 RS232 VFD auf Deutschland

Leapfrog Learning Drum Letters and numbers etc. light up on top of drum each time you tap it. Mackenzie, Queensland, Australia, pickup only. But there surely will be others around

Or you could try to find a broken bass drum shell and hacksaw it down

You could add it to the wiki page

Are they floppy drive motors?

A friend of my boss's decided a good way to rip down some long pieces of lumber would be to have his wife hold the circular saw upside down, and <i>pull back the safety guard</i>, while he ran the timber onto it like a bench saw. He should be able to wiggle his re-attached fingers again in a few weeks. Meanwhile, maybe you could add a link to your tutorial into the Electronics Basics thread.

Remove all the components by the shake 'n bake method, selling each board's worth on ebay as a spares collection (minus SID). Then use the resulting bare boards as front panel stock.

sworded=sordid sorry i'm in a persnickety mood

You know, when you provide a link, we can always click it and read it ourselves.