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Hi SuperDavies Have you seen this? Application Development Also, you might want to check this out: Function Reference List I will post back with more soon (530am here, it's bedtime!) but for now, make sure you understand the 2nd link, especially the section on USER_* functions. The descriptions tell you how each of the functions in the main.c file in the skeleton are handled. Briefly, It runs user_init on startup, then runs the interrupt handlers (look for "this is an interrupt service routine!") as the events occur (midi recieved, timer overrun, etc), services all the buttons, encoders, LED's ,LCD, etc, and then with any time left over (which is a LOT!) it runs user_tick. When I wake up, perhaps there is something in particular you'd like me to explain, to act as an example?

All the MIOS based projects (like LC) use the PIC18F chips, you will need a PIC18F452 :)

I love your rants Smash :) Thanks for the info and saving us all the trouble. Maybe on small modular faceplates it's OK, but obviously not for the rack :)

ohhhhhhh. Uhm..... I knew that! :-[ hehehehe

Yeh I thought that post was interesting too, but they neglected to mention any PCB houses that would make them :(

Nice work man :)

I tooootally disagree. I hear that and just go "what, did you run out of ideas, and reach for a knob?" I think that one of the biggest problems in electronic music is the growing tendency to use patch/fx modulation as a substitute for melodic or rhythmic variations. Again, it's a case of garbage in, garbage out. The drums should already have a good feel to them before you add filtersweeps or whatever. Nothing bores me more than hearing the same thing looped 4 times, add an instrument, loop, add,loop,add, all the while sweeping filters.... that was done and dusted (Rave-y drug pun not intended heheh) almost twenty years ago, it's time for some new ideas :) Just my personal opinion, no offense intended... Music is different for everyone :)

LMAO! Who's the lucky lady Mike? :)

I think that's fine now :)

I'm very happy today, not just because MBSEQv3 is out, but because I've finished testing the subclocking engine. The clocks work a treat, I've thrown everything at them and they always come out bang on time. It's only taken me a couple of weeks (of a few hours on most nights) to go from the pseudocode to the working software, and I'd say at least 50% of that is attributable to my running into a bug in SDCC (allocating memory for arrays. 2.6.0 is fine, nightlies are currently broken) and to being a total n00b and doing some dumb sh!t because I'm new to C, which I've learned from and won't make again..... So obviously my preparation helped a lot, in fact most of the calculations were a copy&paste from the pseudocode hehehehe Ahhh polyrhythms are my bitch now ;D ...and polymeters are my gimp. There's still a long way to go, but this was a milestone and I had to share my excitement :)

LOL she's wicked :D thanks Rowan!

Funny I was thinking that too Lall. killerfrog: In the second screenshot, there are three drop-down list boxes. The top one says 'Lecture Audio', and the item selected is currently 'SigmaTel Audio'. What other items are available in that list?

Hey moogah, while you're hunting... Maybe you might be able to look into prices/compatibility, etc, for digital touchscreens? They're broken down into a grid rather than having the resistive X-Y positioning... Seems simpler=cheaper, but I never hear of them...Perhaps because they probably have far lower precision... But they'd still be good for a seq, if not a fader box. This might be a good time to bring up an idea I've been toying with lately... If you haven't read MIDIbox Network then please give it a glance... The area in particular I'm thinking about is the special service layers. By using those, it could be possible to emulate button presses, or directly call the functions required, which opens interesting ideas to me because it could allow a singular CS to act as the CS for various midiboxes simultaneously. If you could get your embedded linux tablet thing to talk CAN...... The great thing about this is that you have the CS based on a PC with all it's benefits (think about patch storage, or MBSeq drum grids with skins, the ability to zoom in on the 'LCD', integrated mixing and routing of audio channels including additional FX.. I could go on and on), add knobs and switches to that ala midibox, and yet you get the sound and stability of the hardware synth, so if the PC crashes, the music doesn't stop, and the knobs still work - for emergency filtersweep redundancy ;) I wish I had as much time and money as ideas!

Ahh OK, thx for the info... in that case it does seem that the PIC has died :( Did you try uploading MIOS (The OS v1.9x, not the MBSID application v1.7303) within 2 seconds of powering on the core? That has worked for a few people recently. If that doesn't work, you could try re-burning the bootloader onto the PIC if you have a burner or JDM. If I were you, I would double-check for errors on the board, high current from lots of LED's, warning signs like anything hot, etc,.. It would be a shame if there was a problem with the core that takes some time to appear, and you fried another PIC. Hope that helps!

Not off the top of my head no... But it is 0435 in the morning and I've been coding all night, I wouldn't know the answer if it were wrapped in the marquee tag ;D

It's installed, but apparently not as a midi device :/ I've always avoided USB MIDI, so I don't think I can help much here :(

Yeh I spent a yew hours tracking down a 'w' that should have been an 'm' last night. :-[ I also spent a whole 8 hours a few days ago finding out where my C syntax was wrong, only to discover that I'd found an SDCC bug... But this morning I saw the program running, and dancing milkmaids, and it was all worth it ;D oops! </highjack>

LOL ;D kris: They do look that way huh! To be honest I thought the same and then saw the size of them, thought "do they make touchscreens that big?" (yes) and my inner sceptic came out in force hehehe Thanks for emailing them... guess we'll see :) Edit: Speaking of sceptics, I agree smash ;D

Awesome!!! Thanks TK. Can't thank or praise you enough :D Edit: The manual! Wow!

Thanks for the info man. http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=din_module might help. I couldn't find it in the search, but following the links from the wiki homepage led me right to it... There's definitely a lack of troubleshooting info on the wiki, and it's much harder to find on the forums amongst so many posts...

I'm not sure that I understand?

Damn that sucks! I hope noone else was in the same boat as me, and didn't bid due to my erroneous info. C taper is an S shaped curve made from mirrored expo curves. There's a name for it, but I don't recall :(

That's my point... why build faders out of slide pots if you have a touchscreen with sliders on it?

You can see it in the device manager, and test it with MIOS Studio :)

LOL damn right!