stryd_one

So would I! :D </beg> hehehhe

This just keeps coming up this week... What about using the portal for storing this information?

no webspace? What about the portal? I'm not sure if the portal is designed for these things though...anyone know?

Heya DriftZ, I hope I'm not being too rude in asking this of you, but I was hoping that maybe you might be able to post the code for this to the midibox portal perhaps, or maybe some other place? If you'd rather keep your clever tricks a secret, that is understandable though, so no pressure! :)

Alright then! Nice work duggle! :D Will we be able to chain devices, say use two keyboards? How will the device interface with the core module? Also, why did I not realise that this post is really old!? hehehehe Duggle? are you still there? ;)

Ugh what's the point of that then? Yeh I totally agree with you on that one... Already in the design :) Nice :) Can it do polymeters too? I usually don't bother to mention them separately, cause theyre so interrelated... This seems to be a feature that's becoming more and more prevalent lately... Who uses it anyway? I don't hear polyrhythms used in music generally speaking (unfortunately! ... of course there are a few notable exceptions to this) and I'd never heard anyone mention it until very recently... Are the hardare manufacturers just follwing us muso's around the net, trawling for ideas? ;) Like hen's teeth. I've been searching for years... Sounds like more hardware than I have money for right now, but you can buy me one if ya like ;D Anyway I'd never heard of these things before this post, they must have been released while I was away, now I have to go find out what they are :)

Sorry mate! I'm trying not to let the forum stop me from doing work...my boss would kick my @$$! :-/ But I'll PM you sometime today (in the next 4 hours before the weekend).. Cheers!

If you read through some of my older posts (which I suspect you already did), you'll see that those ideas (and a few more) are already all in the works with my sequencer ... Patience :) Keep in mind that pay_c is right... The commercial variants are cheaper and easier, and take much less time. I've never even heard a single person aside from myself mention the word polyrhythm, so it's a feature you just won't find commercially, but if you can live without it, I would ;) I am gonna take this opportunity to stake my claim though - a polyrhythmic MIDI sequencer is my idea. Let the pages of history say, I tried it first (unless you can find a record of someone else trying it - I can't!). Just for the records ;D LOL

green This is just a scam to get your # of posts up isn't it? ;D

Hey all, Firstly, gee it's nice to be back! On a more geeky note ;) ... As some of you are aware, I've been working on a custom sequencer based on MBSEQ/MIOS... The work that it needs to do, and the memory required, is a bit much for a single PIC, so I'll need to use at least 2 (probably more like 3 I think)... This leaves me with a few questions. A good friend of mine is a real expert on these kind of things, but I'd still appreciate some advice from the forum, cause you guys really know your stuff! Is there already support within MIOS for 2 or more Cores to simultaneously access additional memory (EEPROM or flash or whatever, the bigger and faster, the better)? Has anyone seen the IDE interface code on the PICList site? Anyone know if it will work with MIOS? an IDE hard disk could be really handy... Also, I'm trying to figure out just how to spread the work over 2 or more cores... So far I figure that I'll have to use a main core that controls the others using MBLink to communicate, but I'm not sure how to figure out how much memory and utilization each core will be able to handle, so I'm not sure how to arrange the code over the separate PIC's. Is there some easy method for calculating these things? I hope I'm making sense here :-/ Thanks for any help you can give

Posted by: sil909 Posted on: Apr 15th, 2004, 12:33pm Yeh I was thinking that myself! :) Those EZKit boards aren't real easy to come by though.... LOL :) In some post (months ago) i was talking about this feature on the seq... It's really easily done, I started with the merger code and worked from there...

Hey MIDIBoxers!!! Long time, no see! Well I thought I should drop in and say a quick hello, but I'll have to keep it brief.... A sidden and unexpected bump in the road came along for me some months ago and I have had no money and no internet connection (GASP!) I'm writing this from work and I don't want to be rude to my boss, so I will have to make this short so... Yes, I'm still alive, yes, I'm still working on the sequencer (although lots of updates now that MBSEQ v2 is out!) and the 16x16 patchbay, and I'll have some money again soon, so it shouldn't be long before I can put some of this code in a real midibox and start playing :) Not to mention, getting an internet connection so I can be an active member of this wonderful group of people, once again. Look forward to catching up with all of you! Cheers, Stryd_one

Grab an old version of Cakewalk, that was the only software available that specialized as a MIDI sequencer only and was written for PC (not ported from Mac) about that time....

LMAO!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Wow your friend Dav does a darn good job! I'm sure I'm not the only person around here wondering if he sells to the public ;D

Yeh Flownezz and I were discussing this earlier on (there are several old ISA cards which could be made to do beautiful things with MIOS) , but we will all have to calm down a little until TK can work his magic and make us an IDE interface... Or you could do it for us ;)

Man I have WAY too many questions here heheheheh What's the story with ROM fonts? How are they used? I'd love to do menus using the character set, like in those old DOS apps... But I would rather lots of blocks and lines and special characters, than both uppercase and lowercase alphanumeric characters... Having the whole alphabet there twice seems such a waste, those characters could be musical notes, or bar graphs or menu icons etc... Can the character sets be changed? (R.O.M. implies 'no', I guess) Could say two (or 3 or four etc) MBHPTV modules be used on one tv screen by somehow offsetting the sizes and positions of the images and mixing them? This could be seriously cool, and a (kinda clunky) way to increase resolution... Say you could have 4 cores, each displaying on one corner of the screen... Too many ideas! Too many questions!! I'm gonna explode!

FWIW both of those features are in my sequencer design ;)

It shouldn't be too rough, but let me know if you need a hand :)

Handy schematic thanks dude! :) See the thing about doing a MIOS based meterbridge, is that the code can be used in other applications... (stryd one pulls out his bag of ideas) Anyone ever seen the Red Sound Systems Voyager Beat Xtractor? It reads an incoming audio signal, grabs the beat out of it, and sends MIDI Clock signals in tempo sync... Very cool, stupidly expensive, and now unavailable. I want to make a MIOS one, one of these days (after the sequencer, switching patchbay, synth etc... Don't hold your breath hehehehe) Anyway the point is, that it's handy code :)

TK you are a machine!!!! :D I can see it now...rows and rows of TV screens displaying SID parameters, sequences, routing paths, control data.... ;D :P ;D *twitch* *twitch* I'm freaking out man!!

Yeh and they also have ALL their schematics available for free :)

1) Dude think about how much the other parts in a box like this cost, and then the price of a free PIC from the samples site.... The PIC is not really the source of concern when it comes to price :) 2)MBLink :D

Anyone else interested in working on this? It should be a piece of cake really, measure incoming signal strength, convert to digital, use a set of led's to display the value... I'll do the code if someone else wants to do the hardware...

:-X ;D :-X ;D :-X ;D :-X ;D :-X ;D :-X ;D :-X ;D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!DUDE!!! ***falls over*** hehehehe my sequencer is gonna LOVE this. I love it!! I think I just officially stopped working on the UI hehehehehhee!! TK, you're like....wow dude....That's pretty impressive :) So what's limiting the resolution anyway?