sidysm

Minimum value 0, max 10 logical steps.....11 It may be a digital system but we come from an analogue world.

Just wanted to add my support to this project, I had so many ideas for ways to improve the edrum with mbhp. Imagine having a pot on each drum to tune it? Individual mutes on every cymbal....side stick on each kit piece...a pot to control snare springs on/off...expression pedal on hi-hat to control a variable level of openness using megatrigg or layering...damn, this will rock!

well since everyones posting theirs, I used microsim at uni for schematics and pcb design. I don't actually know who makes it but there is a download link on my uni site, anyone wants the link pm me.

I have been meaning to get round to building an MBHP MC with a few extras for quite some time now and have just about resigned myself to the fact I aint ever gonna have the time. I have decided to give up in part and buy a mackie control in the new year, although someday I'm gonna build that killer controller. However I NEED peak vu's on every channel to allow me to visually monitor my signals without the PC monitor and so wondered if anyone had successfully implemented this into a MC clone yet. What I want is a a means to build a vu meter to put between the computer and mackie and as I have 2 cores I wanted to build one. What I would need would be a mckie vu and mackie xt vu. The main unit would need at least 18 LED bars 8 stereo channels and 1 stereo master out, and a midi monitor LCD, the xt' would require only 16 bar LEDs for 8 stereo channels. The potentially hard part is that they would need some way to correspond to always match what the controller was set to. I know sx has an output in generic remote for the meters and wondered if anyone had tried using this yet. I was the thinking the 64E firmware could be adapted to use the douts only as the metering, has or could someone test if 16e/64e could do this with sx/nuendo. If implentable I was planning on 16 led bars of 10 green 4 yellow and 2 red, should 16 steps be possible? Although I plan it as an add on to a real mackie it would be a useful addon to anyone with a mios clone, and who knows mackie may finally give thorsten a big thankyou cheque since they ripped off banksticks for the universal.

$35??? how much do mice cost there?

I'm afraid you do have it wrong. It's not a universal protocol, it's a universal firmware which allows the MC to be booted in three modes to output the LC; MC or HUI protocols. It's like using banksticks, ie. it alters what each control outputs to mirror one of the three existing protocols which you choose when you power on.

http://go.to/edrum this allows velocity triggers which could be adapted into what you want.

what has happened is mackie has now released the mackie control universal which can be switched between lc, hui and mc protocols so all software can be controlled. There is a paid firmware upgrade for existing mc and lc customers. So whilst there is only one unit now, there is still 3 seperate protocols. I think personally that they robbed thorstens bankstick idea.

We can fix that, we have the technology ;) on a more serious note though, surely if fruity scratcher responds to a pot it is working off the midi cc? as a workaround if the encoder isn't working directly in, couldn't you set up midiox as a sitbetween and send the incoming signal from the encoder to midiox then route the cc down a soft midi port and into fruity? Traktor with an encoder would blow you away compared to fruity with a pot if you tried it. ooops, forgot to mention. This came out recently which I doubt you'd want to buy as you're here but may give you some ideas for a good scratchy midibox. http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/djconsole.shtml

http://go.to/edrum

Hi thorsten, thanks for advice. I think I'll need a seperate core though as I am basing my midibox on 18F using mios and as far as could tell midimon is still only implemented on the 16F core?

I want to include an 8 digit MTC display in the transport section of my controller. I was looking at the midimon platform to do this using the extension, but looking at the midimon section it looks like thin can be acheived on a single dout. Would I be able to do this in mios on a single dout or do I need to build the midimon device as well, I was originally just going to have an extra midi in and out for MTC/midi Clock.

www.50free.com 50 meg space and pretty solid server so far it's what I'm using to test and design my site, http://sidysm.50free.net

Try http://samples.microchip.com/ they're free and I don't see why they wouldn't ship to greece, my 18f were shipped from thailand to the uk.

I got a phone call yesterday my samples are shipping as we speak, might order a couple of enclosures too, upto £50 per unit value they'll send for free