stryd_one

Hahah what a great story! (and a real nice guy) Try carrying electronics parts and a martial arts training weapon case (which I have learned appears to be a rifle case to the uninitiated) at the same time. I did it twice, got quizzed by police one time and security the next, and gave up :D

Yeh, dig the blue stain!

Oh look, you have tiny racks and a desk lamp in your rack!

Holy cow! I don't know if I'd want it for a frontpanel but it sure is pretty!

Ooh, pretty!!!

Hey, SLP has taken that back and apologised already (like a gentleman), so no need to twist the blade ;)

Yeh my money's on noisey switchmode... I'm sure you could filter it out somehow but would it be worth it?

LOL you bet ::) But that's the problem... people spread rumour around, and before you know it, a half dozen alledged and totally unproven and partially documented posts on the internet create a culture where whenever a fake part is mentioned, crowds of people start flinging poo at hkss with no real justification. Even if he does have a few counterfeit parts, it's hardly unique and hardly worthy of the degree of reaction it gets. It's there in his feedback, as it should be. Ahem, proof please! Comon man, warning good, rumour bad, and all that... There's plenty of warnings about transistors in his feedback, and if you google, but does it really need to come here if it's in his feedback already? "Always check your ebay seller's feedback before you buy" is great advice, and it's all over ebay's website. Aside from that, he gives refunds on fakes, and broken stuff which I know from personal experience. Them's wise words! Ahh, I wouldn't call a few words and a pair of pics "documented". I could whip up a post with a couple of messed up chips and say they're fakes and I bought them from him. Where's the link to the auction, the item number, the feedback? Where's the copies or screencaps of the email threads between buyer and seller? What about the refund? Did ebay buyer protection, paypal protection, and credit card online fraud protection all fail this guy? FWIW, I have some of the 4096 BBD's from him and they are not painted or sanded and the pins are new etc, I can't confirm they're not fake because I've nothing to drive them, but they don't look like those other pics at all. That may very will be true, but I'm yet to see them. I can find lots of posts referring to other posts referring to some story that some guy told them though ;) You guys really need to stop and think - when you say this shit about him, whether it's true or not, you are disrespecting him and taking money from him. It's the equivalent of walking up to the guy hitting him in the face and stealing his wallet. Now, if he's got it coming, then dish it up in droves, and I'll be right there swinging too.... but it's not something you should just throw out there in a flippant post like it's nothing, and I'm yet to see anyone take it as seriously as they would if they were saying this shit to the guy's face. It's clearly his suppliers, I mean why would he stock 99% genuine stock and then fake the cheap stuff? ... but he doesn't seem to do much about it either. Once he is shown that he's stocking fakes, he keeps listing them, and that sucks. His inaction is about as bad as committing the crime itself IMO. Yeh chipforbrains is way more serious for sure. And IMO HKSS's business ethics are nonexistent, it's pretty shocking. The worst thing is that he continues to list stock that has been proven fake (like the transistors) but then again, if you buy a transistor from him and his feedback says they're fake, you're pretty much asking for it.... And if you've got a problem with dodgy business ethics there are certainly better targets and places for discussing them. Is this HKSS or what? Totally ,it's rampant. Sign up for parts supplier email lists and its just counterfeit this, counterfeit that, counterfeit the other. Totally.......Man you got ripped, that sucks :(

Welcome aboard man. You can feel free to apply that skill to helping me with documentation anyday ;D Actually, I suspect that you may have missed some of the best documentation to allay your fears. You should try out the wiki and the search engine for questions like this that may have been covered. I'll keep it short, you can search out the long version ;) You can buy the chips pre burned, and with the operating system preinstalled, from smashtv's store, where you buy the PCB's and other parts. Alternately, you can buy the JDM programmer from his store, which has been proven to work well with recent software, to burn chips yourself. The programming of the code is all taken care of, you might need to do some fairly simple text file editing to customise to your hardware, and recompile (just run a file) and those changes are well documented. Especially with your experience in the area, you'll be fine. Seriously, the hardest thing about midiboxing is finding the right document, the rest is a snap :) Dig the rasta lion on the panel and the name dubwision too, nice ;)

Thanks for sharing the love TK :) (and that little bit of history for our inspiration!)

So, now you know, and it didn't make any difference whether you knew or not really did it? The items still got to you. So why are you bringing up this seller out of nowhere? It's soapboxing. Yeh, you're talking about needing to know beforehand. It doesn't make any difference. You've found this new information now, and instead of just going "that's interesting, who cares" you're making this forum into a soapbox. I never said I order anything from him recently. You didn't say otherwise either. Like I said, they should have mailed you sooner in my opinion. Why are you arguing the point? It seems to me that we agree on that. Again, you're soapboxing. This is not the right place. Do you see me posting about every slow-to-respond ebay seller I come across? Dude, soapbox! I already said that I don't think it's acceptable that an ebay seller should take two weeks to respond to you. And this is not the place to bring it up. Your problem is not electronic parts. The parts are fine. Your problem is with a seller who is slow to respond to emails. That's got almost nothing to do with midibox, and certainly nothing to do with fake SIDs. Your complaint has nothing to do with the goods, your only complaint is that he was slow to email. There's still nothing that's been shown to be wrong with his parts. Regardless, leave the feedback for him in the ebay site not this one. It's not relevant. What the fuck man, I never said anything of the sort, in fact I said the opposite: "If you've got real proof then bring it please, because midiboxers should be warned". Nothing I've said has been in favour of either the DIYer or the seller - it's only about making sure that the truth is known and that people, no matter who they are, are protected. I'm not talking about dead SIDs and neither are you! Still, if the seller sold them as 100% working and they were not, and the buyer took the sensible measures to protect their purchase like paypal protection, then they can get a refund. If not, then they took a calculated risk and lost, and that's the buyers fault. I think it's good if they want to protect their fellow DIYers and warn them. You however are implying HKSS is involved in that kind of practice by introducing him to this thread, and in the end your only motivations for doing so are a few communications problems and a bunch of rumour. . What do you call it then? I mean, one person tells you a rumour and then you tell someone else the same rumour, what else could it be? OK fair enough - take it to ebay. If you feel that we need to know that hkss and goodbuy are the same person, then say just that. You could use the afficial ebay thread, where it would be on topic. But there's no need for unfairly associating him with fake SIDs. If only you applied the same logic in this case! Who? Where? What happened after that? Is there any kind of proof? Did they get refunds? I'll repeat too. Bring the proof if you have it, but don't spread rumours here. We're all fully aware of the rumour. Man, I totally agree that if there is a problem then DIY crew need to be made aware of it... but consider this: What if it is all rumour? What if HKSS has never sold counterfeit goods? What if he feeds his family or pays his rent by running an ebay store? How do you think that you effect his life when you talk shit with no basis and steer people away from his store? You talk about how important it is to protect the DIY community, and I totally agree - but how about considering the person running the store too? Hangon, you said you didn't know it was HKSS, So why didn't you spend the extra money? Anyway, if you had, you'd still be in the same boat you are now: you have a bunch of working parts. Or you could get a refund. So what's the problem again? Which has nothing to do with HKSS so why are you talking about him? Soapboxing. Exactly. Soapboxing. Man how do you think rumours are spread? Talking (and typing, etc) is pretty much the only way! It may not be your intention to spread rumours, but that is exactly what you're doing.

Sounds like this post is recent after all.... But hey, why not talk to the seller first? As I said, he may not be ripping you off, he may just have bought them from someone who was ripping him off. If you bought a dud SID from Wilba would you immediately post here and call him a nasty name?

Nothing but empty rumours. Please don't spread them here if you don't have proof man. I wouldn't let him talk shit about you! I gotta admit man, and you know I don't mean offense, but it seems strange to me that, one the one hand you know that these are the same person, and yet you don't want to receive the package from the wrong name ;D Your analogy is a bit skewed,a more appropriate one would be ordering from newark and receiving from farnell - which by the way, happened to me. I've seen a whooole lot of rumours. The person who started them was his competition 'chipforbrains' who claimed that his SSM2044's were not NOS and that they were recovered from old washing machines and the like. That's not opinion, it's fact. Google it if you like, maybe you'll find the posts. It's even been covered here. (I think he also made some kind of sweatshop inference too)When chipforbrains said this, it was said in the context of a 'warning message' to a DIY audio community, and the rumour was spread by it's members in the best interests of their DIY audio buddies. That was done with good intent, but as yet, I've not seen any proof, and I can tell you that I know a few people who have bought them from him including myself and that they're all OK. BTW, his email response was fine. Not superfast, but perfectly acceptable. Maybe two days maximum to wait to hear from him - and remember there's a time difference toying with that. I'm telling you this because I don't want you to be misinformed, but I'm not trying to make you believe anything - except that in my opinion spreading rumours about people is not in the spirit of this community. If you've got real proof then bring it please, because midiboxers should be warned, but unless something has changed recently, there's no proof to be found, just lots of stories from people, often which they heard from someone who heard from someone etc etc - just like yours! I mean, if he sells all these counterfeits, why did you buy from a guy with feedback saying he sells counterfeits? Or maybe there's no such feedback? And yes, it is Chinese New Year at the moment, and the vast majority of Asia is running in holiday mode. I know of a few people who are unable to stock goods which are manufactured there for several weeks due to the long break. Now, IMO they should have said something to you in the first place. Just not returning emails is wack. But hardly a reason to badmouth the seller here, and associate him with bogus sids. That's what ebay feedback is for :) Also, counterfeit parts are incredibly common, more than you can imagine. Add to that practices like fake ROHS parts with lead content, and stolen IP, and entire companies being counterfeited, complete with production lines, distribution, marketing and retail outlets, and you're starting to get the idea. If you buy your parts for cheap from china or nearby/similar places, you can darned well expect to get the occasional fake. The seller may not even be aware that he's stocking fakes. So, getting back to the topic, where are all these bogus SIDs anyway? Search ebay and see if you can find them....... Supposedly there are hundreds of them... But it also appears that the site has not been updated since 2006. Is this problem even still around?

I'm sure this was just covered... let's see....... cheap dout's cheap ain ;)

Love it.

ARgh! Again! Why? What's wrong with that seller? Lots of HK guys do that. It's not like they're secretive about it. Probably because your first language is Serbian and his first language is Chinese, and you're both talking English, in emails only. It's not exactly an efficient method of communication ;) I want to put a very sudden stop to this. If this seller has done something wrong, and it can be proven, then please by all means provide the proof, and protect our beloved midiboxers from being ripped off.... But so far, I've seen a lot of people badmouthing him, all because one guy accused him of selling counterfeit goods, and a bunch of people jumped on the bandwagon. It should be noted that the person who accused him of this practice, chipforbrains, is another seller from HK, and is likely his direct competition, or maybe even himself, directing buyers towards the chipforbrains store where prices are higher. Whatever the reason, there is as yet NO PROOF, not even a convincing argument, that hongkongsuperseller has done anything wrong. I won't stand for unfounded accusations against anyone here.

SNR

I've never seen such a thing. It'll vary from one keybed to the next I guess. Yes you will :)

Paid. heheheh

Yeh, that's about the size of it! :) It's probably worth adding a DINx* board so you can have a few buttons/encoders if you want... But not a 'must'.

Yes, but I'm not thinking MBSEQ, I'm thinking User App ;)

I'm with you, AC. It all looked fine to me too. ??? Likewise I'm no expert on this myself, so maybe I missed something.

Yes, the MC80 is a special animal ;) But there's a fair difference between the capacities of the other models I listed. The Q-80 has half the ram of the EX and that has half of the exe, for example. Yes, the MC50 at least will play direct from a 720k floppy. No you can't have mine ;) The RM1X is pretty nice too... But I have to wonder... Why not midibox it?

Try the kawai Q-80/q80ex/q80exe or roland MC-50/mc80/mc80ex or one of the more serious yamaha QY series. Those older MPC's are more inline with the baby QY you already have.

It's possible that there was a lack of effort I guess...also possible that there are hardware memory access limitations but ahhh... unlikely. They aren't *that* old ;) I think it's more likely that they were fresh outta space/milking it for all they could. Keep in mind that when these things were new, electronic music had not yet developed to such a great degree the current trend of using realtime modulation, as such, realtime modulation capablitities were not as high a priority. You generally find only the most basic of exceptions: Velocity (often hardwired to volume) and Pitchbend (Guess where that's usually hardwired. heheh). Anything else is kinda a bonus ;) FWIW, there are other issues aside from how fast you can get the data in there too... The processors in these things are often incapable of fast updates to the sound. My akai s2000 (a bit newer than your peavey I think. BTW, a badly underrated box) allows direct access to the parameters via sysex, including fast sysex transmitted via SCSI-2 cables from a PC editor (MESA comes from akai and Millennium is 3rd-party and 1000*better) but there's still a noticable latency (in the 10's of ms). Fortunately you can map the modwheel or pitchwheel to a great deal of parameters, and that's nice and smooth, but it goes to show that even for a box newer and more powerful than the peavey, realtime modulation is pushing it, direct sysex or otherwise.