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Yes, that's certainly possible :)

LMFAO.

Sorry for English post!! This should do it: Line 116 of the app_lcd.inc: ; (Initialization of Ports: done in Init_Ports) clrf TRISB ; Fix for 4-bit mode LCDs on 46xx. Can stay in place on other PICs also. Maybe in the non-Deutsche forum, I should explain what the TRISx PORTx and LATx is all about? :)

You should all be glad TK isn't in on this ;D Now stop worrying about points and relax :)

Yeh I saw those a few days back too, but I was too busy laughing at how hard they tried to hide the BBD chips from view ;)

Any chance of more accurate specs? Contrast ratio (X:Y), Colour (wavelength in nM) and Viewing angles (range in degrees) are the ones I'm really interested in.

And the award for "most complicated bulk buy ever" goes to....... (Drum Roll)

Hahahaha right! No no you got it wrong, wise man say: MIDIbox get the girls. ;D

Hi Djo, So you want to make a midibox to process the output from the axiom, to change the behaviour of the buttons? As for the pedals, most people use a double-switched pedal, as octave up and octave down buttons. Did you want two switches on one pedal, or a pot to control the octave within a certain range? Both of these things should be possible with a midibox anyway :)

Hi Squirrel, welcome aboard! No answers for marquee tag users! ;D I'll get some more information while I wait for you to fix that ;) DIN and DOUTs? Working sporadically? How so? is it dropping entire sysex strings, or just individual bytes, or what?

Guys please be aware that I suspect that the images you've seen may have been doctored a bit - the FSTN still only has a contrast of 5:1 which is not that high, and not that much like the PLED. Maybe the datasheet was not changed from the STN type... Maybe the camera or lighting had beneficial conditions... There are lots of good reasons for this, but I think that it might be worth a few lines in an email asking about viewing angle and contrast measurements etc. I would order quite a few of these if I could confirm a higher contrast ratio, and if they were available in 2x20 and maybe 2x40 :-\

Just to avoid confusion, and for future reference... TK is quite right - your application in particular does not have a requirement for a large amount of variables, so a PIC with lots of RAM (aka data RAM aka SRAM) is not so important - what you need most, is flash memory (aka code space aka Program Memory) because of the large complex functions. Here is a table for comparison: [table] [tr][td][/td][td]IC[/td][td]4685 [/td][td]4620 [/td][td]452 [/td][/tr] [tr][td][/td][td]Flash[/td][td]96k [/td][td]64k [/td][td]32k [/td][/tr] [tr][td][/td][td]SRAM[/td][td]3392b [/td][td]3968b [/td][td]1536b [/td][/tr] [/table] As you can see, there is a trade-off here. I recommended the 4620 in your case because it would be more code-compatible in the short term, because the 4685 has that RAM limitation (banked IO only in that range) - But in your case, the most appropriate PIC in the long term, would be the 4685, as it does not require IIC_MIDI, and it has more codespace vs less RAM, which matches the requirements of your application.

That new knob is really the icing on the cake! The first post was updated, so I hadn't noticed it before, because doing that doesn't mark the post as 'unread' ;)

Hi Cappy, welcome to the forums. MIDIboxen are DIY projects, so you won't be able to buy one, but you can find all the information you need by searching these forums, and in particular by browsing ucapps.de

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You mean M3? Not all 3mm threads are M3, maybe it's some other kind of 3mm thread?

Do you have the knobs with these as well? Maybe you know of some that are suitable?

Yes :)

Australia is in the Asian regions wilba, but it seems were alone... I won't bother with a new thread in that case :)

Oh yeh. I hope you have a lot of those :)

Anyone in the Asian regions interested? I'm pretty sure we can get them here in .au ;)

You mean this page? I wrote that before MIOS supported them, it's mostly irrelevent and outdated information now. Only reason I didn't remove it is that I think there is a small amount of helpful info in amongst it For your C app, you will need to edit the linker script, but MIOS is precompiled for the 4685 now. There is the one catch, that the LCD is automatically configured to use 4-bit mode, but as you are using a custom LCD driver it is not relevant. Others may take note that Wilba's driver will also get around that and use 8bit mode from different pins, if you want. TK says Take note of that last part. I have worked around this by using sections in the linker and pragmas to force things around, but it's messy (I've warned against doing just that in the past). There may be a better way, I'm stuck on something else and haven't really investigated much. You might consider a 4620 - you still get twice the codespace and over twice the RAM, without the hassles of fudging the RAM :) (and the LCD for other guys that are reading this)

I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one turning a bunch of unattached knobs on an otherwise imaginary synth which is really a chunk of desktop. ;D I had to edit that, it's hard to say, without it sounding suss ;D

Nice idea :) Of course it'll only work with shallow devices (that don't go far back from the panel)

Trantastic thread guys, I think I gotta find a source for this stuff.