I've been away from these projects for a while because i was finishing up school. Now that that's finished i finally got some time again for my own midicontroller. I got back onto ucapps.de and saw that there was a new concept called MIOS. Looks very good and i have some questions about it that i can't find in the infos and stuff like that. Maybe i overlooked them..... I want to build a midicontroller for my DB50XG 'external conversion'. The DB50XG is a daughterboard synthesizer that connects to a 'waveblaster port' on the old Creative Labs soundcards and some other old ISA cards. I found 2 conversion to make it external, but both of them aren't quite good enough as there isn't a control interface in eiter of them. If anyone could help me out? The MIOS looks like a very nice interface for my synth, but i want to know the following: 1 Â What kind of things have to be programmed by me and what kind of functions are already in the software? I don't understand the functions section in the MIOS info section, because it's all written in 'assembler code'? 2 Â A lot of functions in the synth have to be controlled by sysex. Can i program MIOS to send a specific sysex message to the synth when i push a specific button on the midicontroller? Can this button be an analog trigger or does it have to be a 'digital' button trigger? 3 Â It used to be possible to send Thorsten the PIC to burn a certain firmware into the PIC. Is it still possible and is this service also available for burning the Bootstrap Loader into the new PIC? 4 Â In the manual of the DB50XG it says that some functions can be controlled directly by external controllers. Does this mean i only have to use the control numbers (or CC's?) to assign the function to a pot/fader or button? I don't have to use sysex for these functions, right? 5 Â In the design for the old MidiboxPlus there were buttons for going up and down in the banks. Are these buttons still available in the MIOS or do i have to program these funtions into the MIOS? 6 Â In the old MidiboxPlus project it was possible to switch between bautrates and therefor it was possible to build both the 'normal midi i/o interface' and the 'Midi-to-COM Rs-232 interface' into the same box. If i understand correctly, this isn't possible in the new MIOS concept, right? 7 Â If i need to program the MIOS myself to get some functions to interact with certain buttons or pots/faders (above questions), do i need to learn that assembler language or are there easier alternatives? What kind of software would i need? I'm working on a wintendo system and i think most of you DIY people and developers work on a Linux system, right? Well, i'll stop here before it gets to long. I hope some of my questions can be resolved. Very nice by the way that it's possible to get some free PIC samples on the Microchip site. I got 3 of the new PIC type that Thorsten introduced for the MIOS concept. Very nice, i like free stuff.
