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shed and me came to the point that I´ll sell my four 6581s for 20 pounds to him. Although I never knew of such a C64 club, you think that´s ok, or?

Hey TK! Guess: worked! ;) The notes are much better now. More like it! Especially for leading synthies. But excuse my (stupid... ? ... !) question: Why has the length to be fixed? Is there a problem assigning the notes off signals to the two different patterns? Anyhow: Works!

MBFM? :o TK? Time? T I M E ? ? You are two people, aren´t you? ! ? wow...

You can get most LCDs on Ebay. Just wait some time. But getting cheap LCDs isn´t that much fun anyhow. The cheaper a LCD is the crappier it is. I got about 10 LCDs on Ebay up to now (including blue/green blacklight, beginning at 2x16 up to 4x20) and the quality of all I got was not so great. The best readable LCDs are still coming from Displaytech, *I* think. You can get those @ Reichelt at a fair price. Greetz.

Hey TK! I tried the new firmware this weekend! The morphing function rocks! Really cool. Especially morphing from one appregiator to another one varying the chords all the time! YEAH!!! Just two things: First: If playing a normal pattern producing notes, the notes loose their end point when using the Threshold morphing (it´s like playing them legato). Why is that so? Second (just really *minor*): In the mios_tables the detended_mode2 is not documented. Yeah, I think the most people should now know that this mode exists, too, but what the heck, just wanted to mention it... :) After all: You can´t get any better Sequencer on the market out there! It´s some rocking piece of .... .... !!! ;D

I used two-compound glue for my stuff. If you sand both sides (e.g. alu on alu) it holds like hell! Really good stuff!! I used it even for making little alu-90°-angles on the top cover for screwing it to the side covers! All are holding up to today! (you are more likely to bend the alu than to get it off again)

Really extravagant! I wouldn´t buy it ;) but I love it. ;D Especially that ABC... stuff. Matrix keyboard from somewhere or self-built?

Hi there! Where are you from? Cause I got 4 SIDs left over here (4x 6581 - different revisions) . I´m not sure about one of those four SIDs. I think it´s not working right, but I´m really not sure. The other three work for sure. Wanted to sell them on Ebay the next days, but hey - it´s MBHP. So, what would you pay for those? ;D Perhaps we can bring something up. Greetz! PS: You can PM me for all that stuff.

Errrrrrr.... Relais?? Any DOUT app that needs high current/power ... what the heck can be realized by Relais. Greetz.

Yes, this is possible. Just let the three slaves away. Just build the Master core + Master SID. About the friendly stuff: Over the "Link" button all 4 SIDs are acting very friendly with the control surface. E.g. you can activate the Link button + all four SIDs and let them play the same patch. They will all react the exactly same way to the Control Surface. The sound coming out of there is f***king P H A T T. You hear a very heavy difference between one SID and four SIDs. But anyhow it´s also possible, just to build the CS with one SID at first and afterwards implement the 3 missing slave SIDs (just don´t forget those buttons like Link and activating the SIDs). Greetz!

OK... since nobody ever had the same prob... :-/ Nobody using lame Win with lame Cubase with superb MBSeq? *sigh* So, I built the external Merger (used some old PIC 16F). The notes directly come out of the keyboard into the Seq together with the Midiclock of Cubase. The only thing: I gotta use the Midimerger Function of the Seq a lot. While having it off as playing appregios, I gotta turn it on to just use the keyboard. But hence... it works! So whatever... Greetz!

Yeah, both *should* work fine. With the 20ks there could come in some more noise. You can avoid that by a good shielding (alu frontplate & housing - no plastic). The 2ks need a little more current (5 Volts @ 2kOhm about 2,5 mA per pot, making 160 mA for 64 pots - that´s a little much!) but nearly don´t bring in any noise anytime! If you use those, just make sure your current stays below the max rating for your PSU and the 7805 (that´s 1 Amp with a good heat sink). Greetz!

Yeah, the 1uF/100V are OK. The voltage is just a maximum rating, so as long as youre above it, everything´s fine. Yupp, polarised are electrolytic ones. Instead of Styroflex (for the SID I presume) you can take any other Cap with 470pF, just make sure it has a good low tolerance (about 2,5% or less) - it´s for the filter center frequency. The same for those ceramic caps: You can take any cap with 330 nF, doesn´t matter whether ceramic or not. The most cap types don´t make such a big difference. Just if you wanna do real hightech stuff (like MHz sampling, high frequency stuff, large temperature gradients) you gotta go to more high quality caps, here on UCApps it mostly doesn´t matter to much. Greetz!

Hi there! Question about the Seq: How do you control it in Cubase SX? I mean... has Cubase SX any Midipatchbay Function? The Seq has to receive the Midiclock Signal and the notes (from some keyboard). But I can´t find any solution how to send the notes to the Seq *always* and then send them back to the specified instrument. I just came up with a solution using a hardware Midimerger (thnx TK again! ;) ) and nothing more. Has anyone implemented the Seq completely within Cubase SX? Greetz!

Detended Encoders are the ones which click on turning them. Non detended are smooth as potis. Mouser does not have any non detended types? weird... The resolution (in MIOS *!*) is in fact different. Check out the MIOS docus for that. With non detended types you can quadruple the resolution, with detended only double it...

OH, ok... *sigh* but the heck, I´ll give Miss Parker just a rack design case and that´s it (when my diploma work is done finally...)! ;D Looking forward for the final stuff...

Veeeeeeeery interesting! But Y did you give up the MuFFin concept? I mean, if Miss Parker is working, MuFFin should be no problem - just some more buttons & Encs within a little bigger GUI. I love the concept! (Especially because its DIY - instead of those Spains... ;D)

Definetely looking funny! Cool! Ammo box! * :D *

You can leave those ones in there (also it´s not to normal that theyre getting hot). Normally they´re rated with a pretty good safety (if 1 Amp is stated, they take 1,5). If they fry anyhow sometime, you can still change them. ;D ;) Anyhow, the best is a ready bridge recitifier (the round ones). They take up a lot (!). Never burnt one up to now (and thats some wonder with all those shorts I built)...

1st: No, you can use 15 Volts on both. The regulator on both PCBs will downgrade the voltage to 9 Volt / 12 Volt. No prob. Do use TK´s PSU recycle! It´s great! 2nd: Just use a normal DINx4 and let the unused ICs unmounted. If you´re talking about the schematic: The same, just cross out the three other ICs and wires to those and you have a DINx1. Greets & good luck

Within a Seq this is normal. You have to think of following: The whole circuit (without LEDs and backlighting) uses up app. 50 to 100 mA, but the LEDs are using about 100 mA and the backlight about 100-300 mA each. So you´re coming beyond the 500 mA like nothing. 500mA x 4 Volt downgrading the 9 Volt = 2 Watts pure heat. Just *DO* use a heatsink on the 7805, then everythings OK. Greetz.

Hi there! I´m back (to life)! I was ill for 1 1/2 weeks now (really caught in the bed - "Nebenhöhlenentzündung"). Now I´m still some days at home and had time / energy to get back to Midiboxing. And what does await me: The final SID setup! Cewl! So I tried it out, TK. ;D Guess what! Still remember my prob? It´s solved!! ;D ;D I think perhaps the Slaves got random DIN things or the mixing of the clock signal for DIN/DOUT/BS/SID really made those probs (more like it). Anyhow: MY SID WORKS!!! REALLY WORKS NOW!!! FOR HOURS!!! YEAH!!! Although one of the 8580 gave up it´s service (no idea why...). I just have a 3x SID now, but what the heck, it still sounds AWESOME! THNX TK!!!

For a newbie a very hard task! First: No, with the MB64 setup this is not possible. Furhtermore, programming the MB64 without the LCD is very hard! I would stick to the already built stuff (look up in the MIOS Downloads for more).

Sounds like kinda short or so. Disconnect everything from the Core (also all the ICs including the PIC). Measure the current, which goes inside the core, it should be faaaaaar below 100 mA. If it is start to connect one piece after the other (first the PIC, the ICs, e.g. the LCD ... ... ...) and measure the current every time to get the "bad boy". If it is already a higher current, there´s a short somewhere on the board (can also be some IC upside down or diode or something!). Greetz

There are ways, but you would have to put a lot of effort in there (including complete shielding of the PSU and a lot of big caps...) . Switching supplies are definetely not the kind of supplies you want for any analoge stuff. Especially when the analoge stuff should make sounds not including much of noise...