stryd_one

Was fine here... Been online working and haven't seen it drop...

Well it was just a quick guess that the memory might be no good... But given your ongoing problems, I'd say there's something bigger going on there. Definitely take TK's advice first :) Well actually I meant the encoders... If you constantly see problems with just the two encoders, I would try swapping them around to see what happens. You need to isolate the fault. If it was me, I'd do something like this: Move encoder 10 to encoder 1 (or some other encoder that works OK) and vice versa. Run and check. If encoder 1 is playing up, it's the encoder itself. If encoder 10 is playing up, it's not the encoder. Now swap around the IC's in the DIN board. Run and check if encoder 10 is still playing up, then it's not IC because it's been moved, and we know it's not the encoder from before, so it must be wiring (or soldering or pcb fault or some other kind of circuitry issue). If encoder 10 is OK now but another encoder is playing up, then it's the IC That's a rough outline but you get the idea?

Nice :) Love the LED's drilled into the ports!

You don't *have* to use the standard MBHP modules... Look at c0nsumer's work for one example, and there are others out there ;) If you're that serious, why not port MIOS to a more powerful processor for a 32bit core or something?

Love that Neve EQ controller! I almost bought those same knobs a while back :) Yeh to cut a long story short, I went software as soon as technology allowed it (IE around the time of the big latency drops in soundcards when it went from several dozen ms to several ms) and I hated it. PC's (including macs) just aren't stable enough for my purposes :( I mean, I can fix anything that goes wrong, that's no problem... I just don't want to do it when I feel like playing a song! :) If I need multiple instances I buy more gear :) Automated patching is the only thing I lose in the hardware realm, and I'm working on a switch matrix for that :) Although I don't like using a PC, that doesn't mean I will go without the advantages it brings... I'm just taking that convenience back to the hardware realm, so I still use a PC in the studio, for loading up and editing synth patches, storing and loading samples etc... There's a lot of math goes into my music and the PC does some of that for me too. I guess it's only the realtime stuff that I try to keep off the box. Automation isn't something I use a lot of... I'll record MIDI CC's in the sequencers but that's as far as it goes. It's really aimed at live/improv music with very little post editing so it's pretty unusual I guess :)

Could you tell us about how the frontpanel was done? It sure is pretty :)

1) Fried? 2) Fried? 3) Right encoder type/speed settings for these encoders?

Hmm, I had started to consider it.... What's the problem?

If it's HD44780, yes!

Hah good point! I'm honestly not sure which is the lesser of the two evils, but they're both evil!

Heh Seppo you must've read my mind.... I have been sitting here all night narrowing down the DIY options and basically was trying to decide between the GSSL and G1176... but not having ever heard either of them, I wasn't sure which way to go... Now I know, thanks :) Seems to be a lot of Aussie interest in these too, which is handy.... Now I've just gotta put together a parts list ughhhh... I wish all DIY communities had Smash and Mike selling kits!!! For those who are just hearing about or are interested the GSSL pretty much everything gets covered in the META - SSL Clone posts thread. If you make one and want to troubleshoot, or feel like reading >125 pages of posts (!!!!) to really get to kow it, make sure you read SSL HELP THREAD!!! :) Unfortunately it's not like our beloved MIDIBox forum ;) and not everything I wonder about could be found by searching the forums. This page seems like a pretty good rundown though. For example an external sidechain - I was thinking about giving it look-ahead capabilities by putting a delay line of a few ms on the input, but the external sidechain info in this thread on The Lab-forum is a bit fuzzy. I'm sure it makes sense to the pro's but it's mildly confusing to newbies :-\ Or modding for a higher ratio, which I'd like to do as it's the last limiter in the signal chain. There's some talk of it in this thread but it's not exactly a parts list ;) heheh The PCB's FS SSL, G9, G1176 Ship to Australia, Asia, New Zealand Thread is intersting to us down-under :) THAT Corp. 2180LB are on SmallBear and there's a guy from the GroupDIY Forum selling That 2180 IC's and also these LED based meters which should knock a bit off the price... they can also be found on his webpage. Unfortunately just *how* to get them working with the GSSL wasn't clear yet. There's a similar circuit mentioned in this thread but again it's not for newbies :) All that said, it's really not that bad - where some specifics are missing, there is a great deal of excellent documentation to support the project and I feel that I won't have much trouble filling in the blanks... So I, think I might make the SSL now and start saving for the junger, that thing looks sweet :) If I manage to figure it out, I'll post a parts list for the whole thing with prices. At my current rate of progress that'll be a looong time ::)

Nokia screen?

the 'bay is the only place I've seen them with any regularity.

Thanks for your advice moebius :) Good to see you back on board dude

;D Yeh that's why I was thinking DIY might be my saviour... Nice analog saturation is sooo nice. Like PSP Vintagewarmer. Yum. I just love tape saturation, which is typically unlucky for me because you can't really get tape saturation in real time ::)

Hey Sensorizer fans: METAL GOOSENECK 300mm

Wow that looks nice.... Even more than the L2 though :o

or create water bubbles instead of air... synth-pimples ;)

I would like to give credit to whichever blog sent me the RSS feed that drew my attention to it.... If that stuff is half as good as it looks....oh yeh.... :)

Wise words :) Hey on the frontpanel tip, check this stuff out: From here http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93647#93647 Led me to this instructional page http://www.sdiy.org/xyzzy/panels/ about using this stuff http://www.horizonsisg.com/products/idmark.asp Most interesting.

Hey all, I've got a big wish.... This forum is a wealth of knowledge on all things audio and DIY and I was hoping some of you might have some good suggestions for me. If you wouldn't mind giving your 2c I'd appreciate it :) All I really need is something that can be kinda 'set and forget' to maximize the volume. I don't really want or need the thing to be full of controls and stuff, or anything like multiband limiting which would need to be set differently for each song. (EQing and multiband compression is already done) Now, I just love Waves L1, it's perfect for what I need. I just set it to dice a few dB off the top and it cranks everything up. But I'm trying to eradicate software from the studio. I could get an L2, but I was hoping for something less wallet-vaporisingly-expensive ;) There are lots of commercial offerings out there, but in Australia there's nowhere you can go that has them all in stock so you can listen to them side by side :( Anyone have any suggestions? I'd prefer DIY, but if you've got something commercial you like please pipe up :) Thanks guys! (and girls? are there any girls around here yet? my g/f drew her first circuit diagram today :) )

Props for noticing that modnaR! I was rather disappointed to see it, although hopefully people read the message, and just didn't open the pic :)

Hey don't ask me, I'm just the messenger :) QBas might be able to help, but remember that he is doing us a favour just by sharing this, so don't ask too much :)

PLEDs don't come in 40x2 (darn) , you might be interested in my currently incomplete project to drive 2x2x20 PLEDs as a 2x40... Otherwise you want some kind of high-contrast LCD, or maybe a VFD.

Yep, use it just the same way :)