DrBunsen

Is that the one from ebay.uk seller bonnynslide?

There's also MiniMusic's suite - pretty cheap too. The difference being, where Itty is only a player, Minimusic is a full sequencer. That's right, compose/jam on a Palm. /edit/ four voices plus drums only though, last time I looked. And somewhere on this forum someone is using I've previously suggested a Palm as an emulated Matrix Orbital LCD for MIDIbox.

Yes, sorry, I mis-remembered the axe design. Let me re-read and make sense ...

Yeah I tried to make it clear in my post that I was just passing on what I'd heard, not trying to endorse it.

Just a thought... phantom power (+48V DC) from a mixing desk over the two unused lines in a 5 pin DIN lead? MIDI only uses three lines. IE a box that combines a DI with a MIDI socket and a 3 pin XLR connector for the desk on one side, that passes both MIDI and power to a 5 pin DIN socket on the other side.

Surely these bugs are one of the things that give the SID it's distinctive character? I mean, the TB-303 had "bugs" too :D:D

I may be interested in one or two :)

Hongkongsuperseller gets a very bad rap here, basically calling him a a scammer. Blah blah, fake labelling, wrong descriptions, child labour, mafia run, so says some dude.

Episode 2 should be online soon. It was only broadcast on radio yesterday, and it is being repeated on Monday. It should be up on the site after that. Listening to it over the net is much better than AM radio!

Oh yes ... BPM to milliseconds delay calculation, then output that to a CC. For delays that can't do this themselves.

That's Dr buns to you

TK has previously stated he is either working on or considering an auxiliary control surface for these functions, which will not require another core. I believe it's in the thread about the v1.7303 firmware

Four. And it's about the same size as your finished board too :)

One of the guys in the music collective/label thing I work with occasionally has piped up about modding a preset boom-cha rhythm box of his, an ARISTA SM200 Turns out it's the same as one of mine, which I've been meaning to mod for ages, so we're going to get stuck in to it. I've added a link to the schematic to the wikipage. It's got a nice kick, a bloopy sort of tom/clave sound, and a noise snare. Oh and stryd.....Rockby are selling them for $20 - 6 left.

Relevant for some I guess, but not on my list. My 707 does FSK tape sync if I ever need it :) Perhaps the solution is to use something like a "plug-in" architecture, where people can write their own plugins. I mean, that's what we'll be doing I guess. Just take the care to leave it open for others in the future to add more. What? Think the Clockbox already has that. I'm confused here, how is that different from having individual clock dividers? Why? But of course :-) In fact if you were to treat each MIDI -channel- as a separate out, with all the hacks applied individually per channel ... the other sync outs could be treated as special cases of MIDI outs. While we're on the subject of ultimate clocks - Sync Shift from InnerClock Systems. The only people I've ever seen with Hewlett Packard laboratory timing pulse generators in their studio gearlist. Oh. I just noticed I linked to this device earlier. Well, maybe no-one else noticed either. Check it out.

Just scored 10x 8 bit latching DACs - thru hole, not SMD, phew. Serial or TTL addressable. They were $2 each so I thought what the hey.

I've started a wiki page under User Projects for everything Drum. It's called DrumStuff. Not much there right now, but hopefully it will grow.

Ugh. I just listened to the output from that Infinite Horizons device. That's teeth-grindingly awful.

Haha. I just did a search for clockbox to show someone else on another forum, and then I thought "what about that big red button thing?" So I searched for that, then I came back here and this window was open :) I would be interested in copying the Sync2 function into a Clockbox, should be easy enough. What's your ULTIMATE Master clock?? Mine: 1. DIN, MIDI, 16th note pulse clocks out -and- in. Korg DIN (48ppq) optional. 2. Sync2 - downstream stop/start on the beat. 3. Sync Shift - fix any latency between clocks. 4. A jog wheel, to nudge the pattern forward or backwards without changing the tempo, say ... this would be great for DJing instruments against vinyl.* 5. Shuffle 6. Selectable clock dividers on each output. * yeah BPM detection from audio would be nice, but let's not get carried away here :-)

I've used a BC before, and I am pretty sure that your friend is wrong about it being temperature. Think how instant the response is from the BC and how closely it tracks the pressure of your breath. If it was temperature, there would be a delay as the resistor cools down, between when you first blow and the response from the synth. You couldn't get those fast honking attacks you get when you blow hard. There would also be another delay when you -stop- blowing as the resistor heats up again. From memory, I think it's a -force- sensing resistor (FSR) - it changes resistance as it bends. Think of the slight back pressure you feel as you start to blow, and how you have to blow quite hard at first to get past that pressure. I've also seen a homebrew clone around somewhere, and I think that used an FSR as well.

I would probably interested in a PCB, if the board has the option of mounting the parts needed for the control surface. Which I guess is the change that TK suggested. Have you thought about working with SmashTV or Mike to produce this board?

The slightly longer answer is that each needs its own CORE module and user interface. The program in the core is different for each synth.

Found an interesting site today. Analog Metropolis = guy's recreating sections from classic synths as separate modules, some using CEM and SSM chips. He sells bare and populated PCBs for the ones he's finished designing, and his prices are not too bad - 15 pounds bare and 75 pounds built. You still have to source your own CEMs/SSMs. SSM history Turns out I had the CEMs/SSMs reversed in my previous posts about the Simmons drums. I've corrected them above, if anyone cares :)

These are not my tests, my results, or my conclusions :) I'm just passing on something interesting I found on the InterSurf. Yes, I would certainly like to see the results from other non-Windows OSes, like Mac OS X, and perhaps the dedicated audio Linux distros like dyne:bolic, agnule, demudi etc. From other things I've seen, it seems like OS X has much tighter timing and lower latency that Windows. I thought it was more interesting for his testing methodology.