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Okay A controller is something that you can put your hands on, like a keyboard, or a knob box, that puts out MIDI messages. An interface takes MIDI messages in and out of the computer. I was probably wrong to say the cartridge port is the only place you can connect an interface. Edit: Another suggestion would be to use a multi-cart adapter, with a known-good cartridge port MIDI interface in one slot, and your software in a Freeze Frame or a home-made flash ROM cart, in the other slot.

How about modular boards for sections of the layout? ie an 8x or 16x encoder and button board, and other boards for common but difficult to wire elements of the front panel, like the SID LED matrix. With ribbon cable headers. This would allow some custom layout but still take a lot of the tedium out.

You can also get dirt cheap PDA touchscreen modules and other parts (LCDs, backlights etc) from an ebay seller called exdwh (used to be called experimenters-discount-warehouse)

As to that, anyone know where to get 40x2 VFDs?

That price is each not both

Some do, some don't. I think it's because RCAs take up less room on the inside.

Well, the price is still a little high, but the interesting POS keyboards I saw earlier are back... stryd? Also: if you're in Brisbane .au four C=64s and power supplies, act fast

Not at all - all you need is an IIC/I2C to RS-232 converter. The Matrix Orbital driver has already been written for MIOS. See this thread for more info.

Not I said the wolf

Anyone had success with the hot air gun? The toaster oven?

Very nice work! Tell us a little about your CS design?

Nice!

Hmmm, a 4 x 16 would cost $148 if you use their PCBs :( Less if you made your own. I guess an 8 x 32 is out of the question then :(:(

Found it via the wayback machine at archive.org Here ya go!

The Prophet 64 cartridge contains the software, it's not a MIDI converter. The knobs on the C64's you've seen are connected to the joystick port, they are not MIDI knobs. Forget about RS232, go straight to MIDI. You want a C=64 cartridge slot to MIDI "converter" or "interface" not a "control". Just a cart with a MIDI port, that's what the Siel and Moog you mention at the start are. Then as long as the software running on the 64 can respond to MIDI, you can use any MIDI controller, not just a MIDIbox, to control that software. I have a schematic at home for a C64 MIDI cartridge which is the same as the old Siel and Moog ones. It came with a great program called "Triad MIDI Slave", the schematic is in the text file that comes with that program. I can't find it online anywhere so PM me in a week and I'll send you my copy from home. (I'm away till then) It would be a lot easier to just buy a Prophet 64 and use the joystick knobs, but I guess you must have some other favourite C64 music software you want to use. Is English your first language? I get the feeling there are some misunderstandings in here, both in questions, and replies.

I'm assuming you've heard of nanoloop and Little Sound DJ? I'm interested in the Gameboy as a MIDIBox LCD and SID-CS

My favourite name for Cash Converters: Smack Converters

Oooo. So how much would you want for them again MRE? I'm looking at these 16x2s on ebay at the moment.

This is beginning to sound like my other favourite sequencer, the Roland PMA-5. I love/hate this box. Great sounds, great software, awful control surface (non-backlit touchscreen and pen). Seeing something like this developed for the MBHP is a dream come true. I'll try and write a bit here about the sequencer, to see if it adds anything to the discussion. You have eight tracks, four for patterns, and four for song-length sequences. The pattern tracks are drum, bass and two chord/poly tracks. A pattern groups all four of these tracks together into a 1 bar to 8 bar loop. User and preset patterns are all defined in Cmajor, and transposed as you play. IE you write a chain of patterns in song mode, and define the chord for each one as you go. There is a large library of chords, but no provision for user defined chords. You then write your song-length instrumental lines into the other four tracks. You can also drop into pattern mode, and loop a single pattern. From here you can transpose the pattern into any other scale on the fly (although it is tricky to get it to change over right on the bar end, as it is not bar locked, and there are multiple pressed involved to select a chord). You can mute or solo each channel and play with the FX and mixer controls. There's also a transpose control, for cheap key-change joy. With a MIDI controller, the on-screen keyboard, or the chord-locked "jam bar" (a small strip along the bottom of the touch screen) you can jam to any track's assigned instrument - a track that is muted internally will still play the notes you send it, but not the notes in its pattern. There's no chord locking for input notes except for the jam bar. I think the paradigm of sequencing chords rather than defining scales seems more musically familiar, as it is basically identical to guitar tablature, and many musicians will feel at home with both programming patterns and jamming alongside. Or to put it another way:

Doesn't the MBSID 303 firmware have a sequencer in it?

Hands off please!!

Could you not use two SIDs with three oscillators each, and re-write only what is necessary to send pitchbend separately to each oscillator?

I meant if you can get hold of the software you could sniff the MIDI data you'd need to program into a MIDIbox. But as others point out you'd need the MIDI mod kit and that presumably has all the MIDI specs in its documentation.

See what you can find in the way of software controllers for a JX3P and see if you can dig out the specs from them. You might find an old DOS or Mac controller or a Cubase mixer map, Logic environment, Sounddiver module etc.