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

Just thought I'd let you guys in on these that I found on a search today. http://www.okw.co.uk/catalogue/tuning/info_pages/comknobsinfo.htm They advertise free samples on the site, of which I felt obliged to order a few knobs, I'll report back when and if they come.

I'm gonna order free samples as I am a poor student but which of these should I be ordering? PIC18F452-I/ML PIC18F452-I/P PIC18F452-I/PT PIC18LF452-I/L PIC18LF452-I/P PIC18LF452-I/PT Â oh and another thought is there any other chips I can order for the other modules from samples.microchip.com?

I considered that way also as 1 core would make it a lot cheaper and only one power supply also. The only thing I wasn't sure of was the flexibility of having multiple Dins and Douts which are not full connected to the core.

I have an idea for a new type of midi controller. We could design a 1, 2 or 4U master unit which would basically be a midi link for up to four, eight or sixteen Cores which could be connected to the rear via 15 pin sub D's. This would send midi to the P.C. via midi and modular rack controllers could be plugged in to control vst fx and instruments. We could work as a group to develop multifunctional controllers, and eventually more specific controllers for more commonly used plugins, with midi controls mapped specific to that plugins specs. We could share all the code and designs for specific plugs and they would be a great accompanyment to a midi controller to bring proper analogue hardware control to a DAW system. Each rack would only need a few rotary encoders and buttons, and some possibly a LCD display, they would be easy and cheap, most could probably be based on the 16E design. What do y'all think?

Stumbled over this little gem whilst searching for a 1U rack dxf. Rane Pro Audio Products offer DXF and DWG drawings of the chasis and panels for all their products to allow custom orders. There's plenty there to fuel ideas or minimise works. The Cad files are here http://www.rane.com/cadlist.html And you can get the product photos and info here http://www.rane.com/procat.html enjoy! sid

Firstly I've never used vmidi so I don't know how to set it up but for what I know anyway... To send 10 bit data 1024 steps you need to use a digital input an analogue input will only allow 128 as that is maximum value for midi, in hardware this means use an encoder to a din rather than a 10k pot to an ain. There is a maximum of 8 motorfaders per core, you can drive more in hardware using multiple coresand a midi link. You can move all pots at once but the more data you change simoulaneously the higher the latency will be. Hopefully this'll help a bit until you get someone more knowledgeable to help.

It'a the width of the LCD I need. I want to do it with only one LCD per 8 faders, using 1x40 or 2x40 that means I need a minimum space between characters of 5mm to allow me to fit LED rings etc. At the moment it's drawn to that size but so far the largest spaced characters I can find ar 3.7mm which would mean I'd need 2 LCD's per 8 faders. Whilst I'd get a lot more info per channel which is good as my method will only give me 4 characters per channel I would need an extra core and the biggest downside the box would be nearly twice as wide if I was to use thinner LCD's. oh, and the files are on their way,

Well I've redone the design... I think this should maximise without going over what I can do on two cores? Boss if ya want to do similar I can send you the new ai file or dxf in 1:1 ratio if you want. Now all I need is to find a large character 1x40 or 2x40 LCD so I can finalise design, else I'll need to rethink as will have to include an additional 2 LCD displays and double the width :(

Thorsten a meter bridge and MTC is the only feature so far missing which is a must have for me, and it's great to hear we're close however. I am designing a box at the moment and I will include a meter bridge for later addition, when implemented though will the meter bridge be able to support stereo channels ie a left and right output per channel (16 vu's for 8 channels) or will it be mono only? Will there be a limit on the number of LED's it can drive in the bar, I was looking at 20 using 2 10 segment arrays. Will it fit on a single core with an already full LC emulation or will it require an additional core? also Dan I'd love some more pictures of your clone also, if you wanted to mail me them I could host them on my web space and create a thread with the additional photos for you? get me at sidysm_nospam_@dsl.pipex.com if you want to.

I'm trying to locate an LCD display which is has either a 1x40 or 2x40 display and a character width of at leas 5mm. I want it so I can have one LCD over 8 channels but the only large character LCD's I can find stop at 2x24. The largest 2x40 I have found is 3.5mm at largest, does anyone know of a supplier for such a product as I really don't want to use 2 LCD's as it will make the fader banks much wider than I would like?