stryd_one

Guys... What's the cap worth? What's your health worth? You have no idea what the stuff is, let alone what it could do to you. Just throw it away and get a new one. FFS, if it's that big a deal, I will pay for the new cap myself, just to make sure you stay healthy.

Find me the datasheet for your LCD and I'll tell you :)

Absolutely. Thanks for the link. I'd be interested in making something like that for sure...although playing chords into a few MBSEQ arps would be similar...

Search here and ucapps for edrum :) It's WAY easier than you think ;)

Clockbox? Search? :P

What the hell was I counting then? :o This is what happens when you try to count while listening to annoying crappy on-hold music. Someone really needs to get that guy a MBFM or something.

You sound kinda like me :) I always wanted a studio, and I started out using FT2 (holy cow that was like 15 years ago!) but always wanted a proper sampler and synths etc... So I saved up for ages and ages, watching software synths growing in popularity and technological advancements, but I was never really interested until they matched the capabilities of the hardware, which happened after I had about 3 hardware synths... So then I set up a DAW and spent a fortune on a bunch of software, which was buggy as hell, took weeks to configure, and was superseded within months. I, feeling ripped off, upgraded to a cracked version, but my karma didn't deal well with it (no, not a korg karma, I mean I felt guilty), and I was trying to do live improv stuff anyway, and the instability of PC's and Mac's was just intolerable. Dead air during a show is just the biggest no-no ever, and you never know when it's going to crash.... ...I eventualy realised that it would cost just a little more, but be far superior, to go all hardware.... No crashing and rebuilding and tweaking for performance and crashing and upgrading and crashing and converting to a new proprietry sample format and playing 'find the one buggy vsti in the vstplugins dir' and losing data thanks to crashing and did I mention crashing? ;D I must admit though, a few things on DAW are often missed.... Only those things I can't do in hardware though... Absynth and kontakt.... But there's not much else you can do with a PC that you can't with hardware. Kontakt can be compared with a VP9000 but they lack polyphony, abby and kontakt are matched only by a capybara, or a big-ass modular system that is larger than your house in both size and price ;) Can't think of much else... And you can't build personalised customised one-of-a-kind HUI's or unique custom semi-modular self-patching sequencers with commercial gear either ;)

You need to read some more around here :) Not trying to be rude at all, just want you to be well-informed. All the answers you need are around... but anyway: Yes the MB could drive bar meters. Check out the LC, I'm fairly sure that does. The 64 LEDs, you could use for whatever you want. One example of using so many LED's would be 4x 16-steps on a sequencer... But it's up to your imagination. If you can't think of anything but LEDRings, you're obviously not very imaginative! ;) (Crikey I think I was up around the 140's in one of my first designs) There will be a fair amount of customization required, as you have a setup that does not match any existing applications (for eg you have mixed encoders and pots) although you will certainly be able to use something like the MB64 as a starting point, you won't have to build the application from the ground up or anything. It sounds to me like a LC clone and a MB64E combined would be perfect for you. Perhaps you could start by building a stock MB64E and use that as a tutorial? You can edit the MB64 via MIDI if you want, so you don't need buttons at all, but you could also use any other button on the CS. Buttons always go to a DIN*. I only count 36 DIN's there, you wouldn't need to redesign anyway... *DIN = Digital INput. Buttons are ON/OFF, so they are binary. This means they need a digital input. You could use an analog in, and it would be seen like turning a knob from 0 to full, (kinda, this is simplified) but this is not a good way to do it. Hope this helps!

Yeh too easy. in1->out1=note1 in1->out2=note2 in1->out3=note3 in2->out1=note4 in2->out2=note5 in2->out3=note6 Use 2 DOUT pins for the 2 ins, 3 DIN pins for the three ins, and adapt the scanmatrix code to your needs. Basically, you'll set the 1st DOUT pin, then scan the 3 DIN's, then clear the 1st DOUT pin, set the 2nd DOUT pin, and scan the three DIN's again. The resulting DIN values will tell you which buttons are pressed. Make sense? PS I am at work and haven't had time to think this through so I could be totally wrong ;)

Booorrrring I hate software synths, and I hate presets. And this one just seems like a boring controller and software aimed at preset-monkeys. Yuck. Give me a MBSID, MBFM, and MBSEQ any day.

Holy craaaap yeh they look great!! [me=stryd_one]puts aside an extra hundred[/me] ;D

The pinning will be in it's service manual.

That poster said the software... I don't think he was referring to the firmware on the BCR, as it would almost certainly be code protected. I gathered that he was referring to some Windows based software that interprets the knob movement on the BCR. But why bother, just build a MIDIBox :) Edit: and when you're done, you could share your work with everyone :) hint, jackchaos, hint ;)

Thanks for that drin. I had a feeling it might only appear if there was a new PM waiting... I thought I'd wait and see, but after a few days with no messages ( :'( nobody likes me ;) hehehe) I decided to just ask :)

Come on mate, it's ME you're talking to :D I'm not really the type to rush anyone... I take it so slow, if I went any slower, I'd go back in time and there'd be no MIDIBox yet ;)

Something I just noticed... If I remember rightly, there used to be text on the top 'frame' of the board wqhich referred to PM's, for eg, there was one that said you had x amount of unread messages or something... Was that ever really there, or am I imagining things? If it was, is it coming back? If it is, can I help?

I love those renders :) Does anyone know what software does that?

Smash... mate... Relax 8) Don't forget that YOU are the one doing US a favour. I know you're trying hard to do the right thing by us all, but don't stress too hard. I'm sure that anyone who was angry about waiting will have already let you know, and the rest of us will understand that you do have a life outside of being our own personal 'PCB Angel' ;) I don't know about the rest of the people here, but I for one greatly appreciate your work, and I'd much rather see you take your sweet time, and have to wait to get my boards, than to see you get stressed and decide that the whole thing is just too hard.

I'm keen too, but I'm happy to sit here on a wad of cash until the shop opens. You should try it, it's not so bad! Don't rush the man :) But hey, Smash, don't get mad cause we rush ya... it just means we love ya ;D :-* heheheh

Have a look at the code in existing projects, and the function reference, it should give you an idea of how to implement this in your own stuff.

Hi Moebius, you've got over 1000 posts now! The forum says you are a MIDIBox GURU ;D And that last piece of advice proves that the forum is correct. Very good tip! One for the wiki?

I hope nothing too nasty mate.... Anyhow yeh, I was planning on starting from the skeleton app and building up from there, and releasing each working stage until I have a vX in my lab ;)

Carry your patches with your keys, cute :)

I didn't get either :\ weird... I'll be ordering a SID module from Smash as soon as he's open, so it shouldn't be long now... But I'll have to catch up sometime and give you some 6581's :)

I'm sure I would :)