stryd_one

Count me in, schemer ;)

Holy cow dude, that's a bit nice! :D

Clever :)

Much better chip... That parallel programming mode will rock... Yeh what's the story with samples? I could certainly go a few of these chips :)

MIOS mixer anyone? ;D Now I just need an IC to do EQing :) I keep asking this question but nobody ever answers it...How do you guys find this stuff? Are you just thumbing through the 5000000000 hits I get on google? ;)

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D SWEET!! THANKS TK! (I said it again! hehehehe) I have a lot of reading to do! It's quite a shame that I am very busy at work at the moment, as well as moving house, and also moving in with my girlfriend :-* so I might not make much progress either for a little while... But I will be playing with the new sequencer in no time, mark my words :) Hope you are OK with the heat... I just about did a backflip last night when I heard on the news that in England they had 38C... That's almost as hot as Australia in summer... I know if we had your snowy cold weather, we would all freeze to death, so I hope you don't melt away in our steamy hot weather! :)

Wooooo!!!! ;D ;D ;D :D ;D :D ;) :) :) ;) :D :D ;D :D :P :P :P OK I'm calm again now hehehehhe

OK really, how do you guys find these chips ??? This is the 2nd time in about a week that someone has come in here, mentioned ideas that I've had in the past, and then linked to spec sheets for a chip that I couldn't find which made me give up... Â LOL Â ;D Anyway the wavetable in the SID's won't do this, I'm told... Apparently it's not a wavetable as we usually call them, but a table for sequencing waveforms which are already on the chip, more like those old vector synths... Could be wrong here...

Doesn't the spec for the HD44780 allow up to 4x40? [homer simpson voice] mmmm, 4x40 ;D

Congrats man :) Enjoy your holiday! :D

You don't need a sequencer so much as a recorder/playback device... You can get them for like $20 off ebay... Battery power may be a different kettle of fish however... That one, I'll leave to the electronics experts round here :) Alesis make a rackmount version and theres a few others by kawai, roland, etc etc etc... Look for old gear :)

Just an alternative suggestion, if you hold a pair of pliers perpendicular to the angle of the metal on the flat pin, and try to squish it flat the other way, they curl around and will usually slide right on in just like a normal pin... Basically you fold it in half :)

Heh look at all those wires!! ;D looks good! Heatshrink cable-tie time I think :)

Lookin Good :)

I second that!!

Yeh, that should only be a few lines of code, at the worst :)

Lets see...PWM, Pitch, Envelope Mods, LFO speeds, delay times...blah blah blah I think I'd put it in the matrix :)

That problem sounds pretty typical of USB though... Wouldn't surprise me if its Windows, not your hardware...Specially if it worked once... Oh and D2K you don't have to go into regedit to do that, there is an area of the control panel that allows it...

My night went like this: ;) :) :D ;D :D 8) ::) [blank] :o ??? :-X :-/ ZZZZZZZZZ LOL

Don't give up Rowan, I'm sure that this can be done with that IC... Flownez and I discussed it at length this weekend, in fact he pointed out that if you didn't nheed MIDI control you wouldn't even need MIOS, you could just run the thing through a serial port... Anyway I want MIDI control and I'm keen to do this, the cheap way with the IC... I guess the real problem is that I don't have heaps of time on my hands, I work pretty long hours... I know this is a university program for you so it's not something that you can just do "whenever"... However I won't be doing much more work on the sequencer until TK releases the 18F port of the MB64Seq, so maybe between the three of us...? What's your timeframe look like? Anyway as for clocking... now before I open my big mouth I'd like to reinstate my previous comments about how I'm sh*t with electronics ;) According to the datasheet: From that statement and the other nerdy stuff on that doc, I've gathered that basically you push data to control the switches into the serial in, and push it a clock signal after whenever the serial data for each switch is loaded. This shifts the data to the next register... Once all the required registers are full (you've finished sending it data about how to configure the switch), you send it a PCLK pulse and that moves all the data about how to set the 256 switches, into the chip and moves the switches accordingly... Provided of course that the data you push into it doesn't clock below 20khz which is the minimum clock speed... I should have read this datasheet closer before :) So the MIOS side of it will need three digital outs... One to push data to the chip which represents the state of the switches. One to push a clock signal to lock those bits in place. And one to send the parallel clock signal to tell the chip 'OK go load this stuff into the switches and patch this sucker already'... Food for thought? Geez I hope I got this techy crud right or I'll look like a right dork! Anyway here's the juicey bit from the datasheet:

Can I have a copy too? :) pweeeze? ;D stryd*at*cciwa.com Thanks dude!

DUDE!! ;D ;D ;D NICE!! How did you find that chip!?! I had this same idea a few months back and gave up because of the whole relay thing... Oh and BTW... Balanced audio is 3 core cable so it's not 256 relays its 768..eep... (I dunno maybe they could share an earth and it's 512...whatever, it's a lot of relays!) Man, great idea, great work finding the chip... I don't know much about electronics as such, but programming I'm cool with... So any help I can give, is all yours. I look forward to seeing this thing finished :) I might even do a larger version (say 32x32 or 48x48) and never touch an audio jack again ;D Cheers!

Can I have the source codes now please? ;D Shaaaa right!

Maybe if the makers of the SIDStation feel like sharing the file format with us... Not likely seeing as MB is competition :(

Yo I don't need encoders yet, but I've gotta bump Ian's effort on this one. Props Ian!!!!! ;D ;D ;D