DrBunsen

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Bleeding Gums Murphy

Sweet! I nominate this for a MIDIbox of the week, when you finish it up and post some samples :D

And I just discovered this blog called Palm Sounds

The concepts behind Tablet2MIDI and Tractorpull might interest you.

Flash or HTML would have the advantage that we could all use it, and pick it to pieces *ahem* I mean offer constructive suggestions :)

I know it's not free ware, but how about Flash or Director?

I wrote here about a shift register from Sparkfun that puts out up to 50 volts on 8 pins. Could be a good DOUT replacement.

Ah, I remember that now from when I first looked into it. If you could build that, it would have applications well beyond MIOS!

Or something like :) I imagine trying to run it under Java on a Palm old enough to have a serial port would be a pain. So I guess it would be more of a native MIOS GUI than a direct port. Mind you I really am guessing here. You'd know better than me fluke.

Nice work! Perhaps making that big knob into a linear slider would give you more room for your other display elements though.

Yeah I see your point. I imagine instead something like a virtual SID step B control surface - the display element, and a small number (5?) of on-screen buttons and one virtual fader, to allow menu selection and parameter editing. It would still act as a straight display as far as signal from the MIDIbox to the Palm, but it would also send serial signals back to the core identifying button presses and slider movement, which the MIDIbox would interpret as if they were the corresponding hardware buttons coming through a DIN.

Hmm. I would guess moulding your own silicone would be about as easy/hard as etching your own boards.

Serge's vMIDIbox tools - editor/simulators for the older, pre-MIOS/ PIC 18 MBHP projects. Like a SoundDiver synth editor, Cubase mixer map, Logic environment, a screen full of virtual knobs for editing MB patches over MIDI. Partly superceded by JSynthLib

You know that you're allowed to build one unit of anything that's patented to prove that it works?

I assume you've got the most recent version of Java for Mac - 10.4.7 only came out last week didn't it? You may need to download something called Plumstone for Java MIDI support.

An alternative approach might be something like a port of the virtual MIDIbox tools

Hehe. I've probably bumped into you there then. But no, Paul's not the guy who runs Swap Shop, he used to have a lab upstairs in the same building and do some of his sales through them. He's around the corner from there somewhere still. But yeah, Brian behind the counter. Lovely bloke. There's a middle ground of course. The $10 iron and the lunchbox! No, seriously though, I don't think you need to spend several thousand to pull this off at all. I'm planning to get myself a new temp controlled solder rework station ($100-200) and get my old oscilloscope fixed ($?). I bought a PIC programmer kit ($30) and a few interesting odds and sods of parts (?$60-80). I reckon about $100 worth of SmashTVs kits and maybe another $50-100 on sundry stuff. If you read through the ucapps.org pages on the MIDIbox 64e thoroughly and do a search for "Ableton Live" in these forums - and cruise the "MIDIbox of the week" and "Design Concepts" forums - you should get a good idea of what's possible after a while. Check out the wiki, find a guide to soldering, practise on some scrap bits and a couple of $10 Jaycar kits. You probably won't need to write software, just assign controls and settings in the 64e application. If you've got a PC, patience, attention to detail and a half decent iron ($30-70), a clean place to work that won't be knocked around for a few days (weeks?) and a clear plan, you should be right.

I don't -think- fluke is planning to write a framebuffer in the PIC ??? This page mentions a part - P87LPC760 - 14 pins I2C and UART. It's on the Phillips Semiconductor forums, so I'd guess it's a phillips part.

Nope, in the first lines of the MBHP_LTC page it says it's a second MIDI out, a MIDI through, and a COM port. But as the custom LCD definition from the MBPH_LCD page says it already provides for IIC displays, converting that to RS-232 might be simpler. I dunno, last time I went looking for IIC to RS232 stuff I couldn't find a chip for it, just expensive diagnostic handsets. But perhaps the Google gods were not with me that day. Today they seem a little kinder

Oh yeah. Paul Perry is Frostwave

Or indeed MIDI note :)

According to wikipedia, yes. AM is tremelo.

Sorry if I'm pointing out things you've already discovered. You're the first of us to put up a coherent plan to bring this off. Well, there's a serial COM port on it as well, but you may be right about IIC straight to RS-232 or IR being a better bet. My last quote seems to indicate so. And it seems you wouldn't have to update the OS/apps, just build a new LCD definition. Not sure. I'll read some more.

Custom LCD driver