DrBunsen

I'd suggest finding a good guide to soldering for beginners online and practising that for a while on some scrap components and simple kits from a local kit supplier. Unless of course you're already experienced at soldering. You won't need to do any surface mount soldering unless you want to build the MIDIbox FM. The ucapps link at the top of this page will take you to the complete run-down on the MIDIbox projects, and the DocuWIKI link will take you to the WIKI page with lots of useful information, including where to buy ready made circuit boards and complete component kits for the various MIDIbox modules.

Oh dear. There's an analog drum bonanza on ebay .au today. -must- ... -resist- ... -temptation- ...

Hmm, I'm tempted, esp by the 2044s, but I gotta wait till my workshop's set up properly.

Oof. Oh well , I guess if someone in the UK offers to help...

Those delays, can you daisy-chain them for longer delay times?

Hmmm. I saw this on ebay and thought of you.

I realise a 606 != a 505, but I remember that instruments triggered off the outs on my old 606 would respond to accent. Must put out a slightly stronger pulse or something. I found the trig out points for a 505 documented here. Same site has mods and trigger info for the Synsonics, 626 and HR-16

Don't know if anyone else has seen this: eMachine Shop Small-run fabricators with real-time pricing as you design in their free CAD software. Hit a button, it places the order, their machines fab your parts automatically and mail them out to you. 3-D milling, 2-D laser cut or milled, wide range of materials including steel, aluminium, wood, plexi, acrylic. Their CAD software imports DXF files. There are example prices for a few designs on the site, and they seem pretty reasonable. Could be handy for making up a front panel and a few dozen buttons, knobs etc

Nope, it's RAM not ROM, so you can load waveforms, and it supports sampling audio into RAM too. Two problems: the noise bug mentioned further down the second link, and there just aren't as many IIgs's out there as there are C=64s or old Soundblasters.

Trackball/X-Y joyball and scrub wheel in one??

Have you checked these guys out? http://www.emachineshop.com/ Small-run fabricators with real-time pricing as you design in their free CAD software. Hit a button, place the order, their machines fab your parts automatically and they mail them to you. 3-D milling, 2-D laser cut, wide range of materials. Their CAD software imports DXF files. There's example prices for a few designs on the site, and they seem pretty reasonable.

*ping!* [me=DrBunsen]switches on notify...[/me] Has anyone actually managed to "flash" the DTV? I was under the impression the games were all ROM. Prophet 64 can take four real pots too, right?

Oh I forgot my poor little Boss Dr Pad. 6 lofi ROM samples with much tweakability in a drum pad. Apparently they bend nicely :-) Right now it's out of service with a broken voice select knob, but it is definitely a lofi digital favourite.

Ah, that's something to do with sport, is it? Oooh, now you're talking.

Yo stryd :) put me down for a trackball pending a combo shipping quote

Cartridge port too from what I remember seeing :) Try searching hackaday.com

Currently the top bidder on a busted CR-68 here - if you need board scans when it comes in let me know. The only problem with it seems to be the internal clock, and a DIN sync or trigger mod should fix that :)

Indeed! Data sheets available there and another list here Noice! /edit/ but that's a digital delay mate, I'm looking at the datasheet now Got 'em - also got about a half dozen unmounted SDSV voice boards with /edit/SSM2044s/ - maye I can add a filter in on them. Also gotta fix the wonky VCO/VCFs in my MKS7 (Juno 106 rack) Yeah I'm thinking one to try out and hack, and if they work out mount a few in a 1u rack :)

Or if anyone in the UK would ship them for us. :) Hey BTW check out his other items - 4x20 VFDs for example

Hey stryd, Just spent last night looking up some info for modding my Simmons SDS8 analog drum synth, and found out it uses the /edit/CEM3372 VCF. Not only that, but there's an unimplemented filter resonance control - looks as simple as cutting out one resistor and replacing it with a pot on each voice. :) :) :) I might be interested in some compressor ICs down the track. I'm not really set up for any tech hacking just yet as my workshop is still a big pile of mess. What compressors are you looking at? Have you checked out the Oatley valve preamp kits? I have this strange idea they could be modded into compressors... although the PAiA one could be a better bet.

So it's basically a giant BankStick? ;D Any chance you scanned the board and kept the image somewhere?

homebrew additive synth on an FPGA - monophonic with 8 sine or square harmonics with individual ADSR envelopes

This guy sells a fix, at 25 Euro per osc :-\

No, bought it about four or five years ago from a music shop in Brisbane over the web. $200. Unfortunately the idiot sent it to me in one layer of cardboard made out of two boxes sticky-taped together, and no padding of any kind. When it got here, two of the DCOs were funky. I shelved it and never got back to it. They could just be loose in their sockets, or they could need replacing. $$$

Slightly off-topic: I have an MKS-7 - no external hardware editor was ever made. Luckily it's all editable with sysex, but it loses all user patches on power-down. I dream of a MIDIbox patch editor/librarian for it, with random patch generation...