stryd_one

Hi guys, I'm not sure but, you may want to check out mouser again, if you haven't done so recently - They changed their shipping and it was MUCH cheaper from US to AU when I ordered last month,compared to a couple of years ago. A few other guys in the chatroom have mentioned a pleasant surprise when ordering there too. Might be worth a look.

Yeh I had a roland chorus back in the day when I didn't play synths yet, and they are highly regarded.. They don't sound at all 'realistic' but they do have a nice... somethingness :) Nice on drums too, wink wink.

If you want a layer of protection but not to fix it, you just print it in reverse and lay it text-side down :) They can get a bit wrikly that way, but I considered the possibility of stretching it a bit and bolting it down. Not sure if they'll hold up. I wonder if colour laser transparencies would be sufficiently solid in colour to use on a black panel?... hmm... One of the handy thigs about transparencies is the ability to backlight them...

Thanks dude :) I've kinda got a lot on my plate at the moment, so I hope someone already running the OS will try it for us (if there is anyone)... otherwise I might drop you a PM. Thanks again!

FPE is where people generally go... if you do find somewhere local, you will be my f***in hero! Edit: oh sorry.. if you wan the entire enclosure, not just panels (expensive way to do it) try protocase. They're very helpful and informative.

Not at all. If you want to run it off a battery, you wight like to have a quick search around the forum, as it has been discussed before. Things like low-drop regulators and such can be helpful mods. Much easier to use mains if you can, though!

Ahh, ImagesHack. I never can get an image off that site without allowing tracking cookies and other such evil things... would you mind attaching it? Anyway... you sure have you sights set high! Best of luck!

Interesting LED ring there too. Sasha: I thought it was a soft-touch knob... not soft-focus pic :D

Man, that is just weird. The vregs should be outputting 5V (+/- 0.notmuch) or nothing at all. It's like you've somehow made it into a constant current supply... ?

+1 what mike said. You'll rock it in. Because this is a custom project, you will need to do a little C programming though... Really it's not too hard, and is a great way to learn the language without too much of the complexities (which MIOS takes care of for you). Have a look at the examples on ucapps.de for some hints about how to make pots and encoders send messages, etc. You might also be interested in ultra's work on the LiveAPI too.

I bet!! Good work man, and thanks for sharing!

heh, 6 wrap joint :D

[me=stryd_one]does the "it's working" dance![/me]

Yeh turu is right, a proxy of some sort should allow you to bypass this. I'm assuming you've already tried the web interface and a standalone IRC client? What did mibbit say about the erroneous RBL listing?

You're on the right track. Enjoy the game!

The fact that it magically goes away if you wait kinda suggests the regulator, or I was thinking maybe the capacitors.

So, I take it that you want 24 channels + a master? Then for example you build 8 physical channels and have three pages. That works best with motorfaders, but still works well with pots in soft-takeover mode.

lol. :D How many LEDs is enough? The answer is: As many as you need :) It really depends on the type of LED used, how it's mounted, what type of plastic you use, etc etc... It'll take some experimentation.

YES!! Now vimeo has me "waiting in line" :)

Errr... Guilty. I forgot that you were on ubuntu, and didn't tell you about the MIOS_SHELL var. I did grab you the next day and tell you though! There was a lot of traffic I guess you missed it. Sorry man! There's a howto now? LOL I had no idea!

Bit of confusion there... There are two types of registers to consider - memory registers, and shift registers. One is an area of memory used by the PIC (which can be given a name), and one is a chip used in a DOUT module. I'll let google tell you which does what :)

hahah, I'm boned - I have a system that can play the (HD) channel that superbowl is on, that has no sound; and one that plays all the other (SD) channels, with surround sound. Can't win! If you know of a place to stream it please let me know! Anyway ontopic.. Yeh try a fresh vreg. The second sentence I meant, yeh pull the chips and see how it goes. The load from a SId and a PIc, even fully used with sounds playing and all, is very low indeed. A couple of LEDs would probably match it ;) If it runs fine without the SID chips and then dies with the SIDs stuffed.... You might have a pair of dead sids there mate. Are they wilba-sourced? Did you handle them with proper antistatic precautions?

Sounds lame? No, this is a confusing issue. Definitely a weird one. But I don't believe the sid app causes any extra midi traffic. A BOR is a Brown Out Reset - meaning, the PIC automatically reboots itself if the voltage drops too low. Unless it's a very brief dropout, your meter would have picked that up, so I guess that's not it. There's an off-board component required for the CAN connection to the SID, which is the diode I referred to earlier. Skipping that, does cause this problem, IIRC. Check out the schems on ucapps to be sure on that one. Anyway you seem to be doing everything right... I'm a bit stumped!

Perhaps you missed this post: HEY YOU! YES, YOU! READ THE STICKY THREADS!!!!!! ;) Firstly: without the 7805, you should have not gotten 5V. The 5V comes from the 7805 (that's what the "05" stands for). Something doesn't make sense there. You should double-check your work. Next up: What does the LCD say during all of this? After that, if you believe tho core is running, you should go to ucapps.de and follow the MIDI troubleshooting doc. Paste the results of all the tests here, and we'll see how we go.

Got a spare Vreg? The load from the SIDs and PIC is so low, you can test it with those pulled, and it won't make much difference.