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Who told you about that? ;D Actually I just realised that I forgot to move it to misc, but I'll leave that till later... Still trying to figure out haw to use the green stars for good and not evil ;) I think I speak for us all when I say that it's no problem at all. Your meanderings tend to be educational and interesting, I say meander on! Worst case scenario is that I split the topic like this (which I will only do upon request of course, or where it's obvious...) so no probs :)

Nice work man :)

There we go, a new thread and a tidy one :)

<voiceover> And that was another hella knowledgeable post brought to you by TheProf industries... TheProf - He knows stuff. *soundbite* Now back to our regular programming... </voiceover> ;D Yeh for audio recording the 5400 drives aren't so bad (unless it hits the swapfile, so RAM is good) but obviously they're not so hot for sampling... And the biggest buffer you can get is a must.. To be honest I haven't played with SATA at all... SATA 1 wasn't worth the effort, and SATA 2 seems good but I don't use it at home and at work it's all SCSI too... Mmmmm... Fibre..... That's...weird!

This just hit matrixsynth so get ready for lots of newbie questions buddy ;)

Well, they're installed... We avoid actually using them though ;) Problem with laptop HDD's is the crappy read times :(

I was just gonna put some thin plastic inbetween the screen and the frontpanel...

LOL

LOL Wilba ;D Hmm that's not a MIOS Studio error, that's an error with the MIDI driver. This is one for the Mac guys which I am not, but a quick googling tells me that Mandolane is the Intel Mac version of Plumstone. Plumstone makes your hardware midi ports visible to java, which for some unknown reason requires 3rd party software on OSX only... It's also free. I assume you got Mandolane because you've got an intel mac, but that one is shareware and you'll have to pay for a license after your demo expires, which it has done. I wonder if one of you Mac guys knows about a free alternative? I know we're always telling people they need plumstone but it seems it doesn't work on current Macs :-\ That would not be good....

Oh that's a thought... I've been meaning to point out that I noticed that the PLED datasheets all say that nothing should come into direct contact with the surface of the screen, and that you should design a cover for it...

Passive or active, whichever keeps it at an optimal temp is all good. Hey sasha I was thinking, you could drill some holes in the aluminium to increase the surface area a little.... Might help?

Sweet :D

Well, the air probably wouldn't help much given that it's going to go nowhere, but I wonder if you have thermal paste on there? If not, sometimes the heat cannot be transferred into the heatsink efficiently, and your heatsink ends up being an IC blanket. Even still, a flat piece of Al will not give a massive increase in the surface area, and I have no idea of it's heat conductance compared to the SID's (why do I get the feeling that TheProf will know this ;D ) so I guess the best way to know how effective it is, is to try it out and measure the temperature of the SIDs... Sorry I took so long to reply, I've had this page open in a tab since you posted but hadn't gotten to it yet...

I don't suppose you could attach a screenshot for us?

Daaamn :'( I'd be asking for my money back man... Surely it's way under it's specified lifespan? Edit: I think Wilba has one of those Winstar PLEDs too

Congrats mate :)

Sorry MTE.... I kept the details to a minimum there... first you need to declare the scale function somewhere (top of the file) unsigned char Scale_7bit(unsigned char value, unsigned char min, unsigned char max); But I missed this comment: So do what th0mas said.

Ugly layout, but: MIOS_LCD_PrintBCD3(Scale_7bit(MIOS_AIN_Pin7bitGet(pin), 0, 16)-8); Or do th0mas's thing :)

I KNEW they'd do that! A few stories on Make and CDM later, costs are covered, price comes down.... Edit: Quantity on hand: 6. Damn. Get in there guys!

Maybe you could use TK's scaler code for this... scale your 0-127 from 0-16, then -8 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // This is an assembly optimized function which scales a 7bit value between // a minimum and maximum value ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// unsigned char Scale_7bit(unsigned char value, unsigned char min, unsigned char max) { // scaled value is (<8-bit random> * ) >> 8 PRODL = value << 1; // 8bit value PRODH = max-min+1; // range __asm movf _PRODL, W mulwf _PRODH, 0 __endasm; return min + PRODH; } LOL me neither but I can plagiarise like crazy ;) Don't forget to put TK in the copyright notice or he might steal our pretty green stars hahahaha

Ahhhh... Velocity sensitive :) That makes the price make sense :) They might be FSRs?

I think you might have! Ohhh.... Ouch $90 a set :( I wonder if we could find a way to get those PCBs made cheaper?

;D Thanks TK! heheheh

Ahh My bad, I read the word changeover and thought latching, but they aren't latching, theyre dual NC/NO... So they will at least work :) I hate how all the different manufacturers use different terminology, it makes it hard to search for them as well... I thought that you meant that the guy on the phone told you he was sending you sealed switches... Just don't wanna see you get ripped off, because even without our modern computer orientated world people are still scammers sometimes :(

Hmmm your guy might have tricked you into a sale because the 1415NC is a changeover (latching, not momentary) and isn't splash or grit proof (the sub $5 pricetag is a giveaway ;) ) The 1413N* is a normally open momentary though, or you can get the 1443N* which has PCB pins as well as the snapin panel mount :)