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Again, to all of you who make this possible.... THANKS!!! No need to complain about not finishing my MB6582 yet, I've had projects sitting on my bench for allot longer that still arent finished. Plus I wouldn't be as far as I am already without everyone's help!!!

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I know that, lol. ;D If it wasn't for smash I probably wouldn't be able to finish this project, It would be too cost prohibitive given the cost of producing PCBs and buying components in a one on - one off production. I can wait my turn, because I can't afford to do otherwise. :P

Hey, Count me in for 1 w/ PIC You are awesome Smash!

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Sasha, thanks for answering so well! And I should be thanking you for replying! :P Yeah, I was wondering if other people agreed with me on the midi editing capability of Live. ;D Although, I have been doing what you are suggesting (back and forth between Reason and Live), it works great when we are creating music in my studio. But, doesn't work so good in a live performance. We do create some of our loops on the fly in a performance (at least we're trying to). So, probably the best solution would be to use a third program for MIDI editing and then export that and import it to Live (too complicated?)? Any suggestions (Logic Pro?)? Really, I was just wondering what other people were doing, and well this being the forum it is I knew people were using allot of different solutions. :) (And I can't wait till I finish my my SID, that will be great live)

Sasha: Sorry for not being a little clearer, the technique my mate has developed for using reason in live situations is a little complicated to explain (its easier to show), sufficing to say that when you use reason under tempo sync its transport controls are inactive, which is a problem for him. I thought if he would use ableton with reason rewired he could program loops into ableton, however the midi-editing capabilities of ableton are seemingly less user friendly than those in reason. I am not saying he can't program things into reason, however again when reason is rewired its own transport controls are locked to ableton. Really the problem he has is he just needs to be able to change the size of the loop in reason and reposition the song position pointer on the fly. Or, have the nice functionality of being able to play, create, and edit loops in ableton, the only thing that is a hinderance here is that the midi editing cababilities in ableton are seemingly slower. So, summarizing, I guess the question really boils down to: 1) what are other people using in live shows to play/create/edit loops, emphasizing edit? 2) is there a less cludgy way of editing midi in ableton, its just that part of the interface seems a little behind those in reason? 3) or is there a way to lock reason to external tempo and preserve the ability to more the song position pointer? 4) is there some other live preformance gear that would do better?

turuloid: thanks for the attempt, WCLK is not really important for live use and can only account for "long term" drift in accuracy (which is important for sample accurate timing when recording). In fact I use it all the time when recording to sync my preamps to my interface, 32 channels of adat requires some timing! I also stripe SMTPE when we do sound for video. styd_one: thanks, do you have any suggestions for an app that can do something similar to reason (well I understand any midi sequencer would work sort of), but has equivilently good editing capabilities and can work in a live situation. Really the problem here is finding an app that is useful for playing live and good sync capabilities (like ableton), and has good editing capabilities (like reason). I know you can use them in rewire mode, but that really doesn't allow us to use the editing capabilities of reason. If anybody has any suggestions on editing MIDI quickly with ableton that would be useful too. Maybe I just need to spend some time designing my own midi editing app in Pd (too much time, though).

Hey guys I wanted to see if you could help me out with this: I have two laptops that me and my mate want to use live onstage, we were thinking that it would be best to sync them using midi, since we will both need to keep pretty exact timing. The problem is that he is using Reason, and that when you sync you cant adjust the position in the arrange view when you are receiving sync messages. (I checked and he is not receiving the song position pointer if I am sending only in pattern mode on ableton). Now is there a way to adjust the song position while synced in Reason? Or, should I just tell him to switch to ableton and use it to do loops? The only problem with switching to ableton is that he does alot of midi editing live and the ableton interface really isn't as easy as Reason's for this (check out jeremy ellis we do similar things, just a slightly different style). This is very important to our act is editing the midi live. Or, should we work out the way to stay synced without using midi cables (I know computers tend to desync over time)? The problem with this is we want to stay in sync for quick tempo changes (we play with a drummer!). Or, Maybe there is software that is as good at editing MIDI as Reason, but has the loop features of live. Or, is there a better way to edit midi in live? Thanks allot, I tried to be as detailed as possible. And I know it is long. :) JJC

Hi, all if you are looking to get rid of a couple of your deffective panels PM me, I might take a few of them

count me in for 100 mc4, when you get the chance...

Well I still seem to be having lcd problems: I have tried 2 2x40 and a 2x16 on two seperate cores and the all show the black bars, also all of the cores are sending out good midi data so I know they are working. I have run the lcd interconnect test, double checked my wiring (verified the signal path with a multimeter), but still only the black bars. Is there anything I could have missed? I have programmed these PICs myself with a JDM, perhaps the JDM is causing issues? What should I be seeing as far as a signal from the core to the lcd ( I can always hook up an oscilloscope )? Well if anyone has any ideas let me know. But anyway, I heard the first sweet glorious sounds out of my sid yesterday, woohoo. Dreamy <3 JJC

Thanks for reading the datasheet Lall, however I can't see any reason why the 40x2 displays won't work they can't both be dead (or can they?). And yes my core is working fine, I can get the 16x2 to work fine. I will try testing everything out when I get the chance perhaps I swapped some cabling somewhere. If anyone else has any ideas, let me know. By the way, would placing a negative contrast voltage on the LCD damage the controller at all, were these controllers designed to handle it? Sincerely, JJC

I see the black line when I connect my 16x2 ( which I thought stopped working but then realized I broke the Enable line), however when I connect either 40x2 I see nothing. I was able to find this datasheet on the Wintek LCD http://www.cyfronika.com.pl/dokumentacje/wmc4002.pdf however I see nothing about needing a negative contrast voltage. The data sheets say VDD-V0 for both should be 4.5V. With VDD at 5V that would mean V0~0.5V . I just don't want to destroy the module with a negative contrast voltage ( or anything else for that matter).

Hey All, I seem to be having problems with some 40x2 lcd modules I have purchased. One is based on the KS0066 controller and has model number TM402C from Tianma. The other is the Wintek WM-C4002M-1yly but I don't know its controller. The data sheet for the Tianma model is here http://docs.bgmicro.com/pdf/lcd1025.pdf and a sheet describing a similar lcd from wintek is here http://www.wintek.com.tw/ModuleList.asp?LcmType=&DispType=CHARACTER&ModuleNo=WM-C1602M-1GLYf I also have a 16x2 lcd that works when connected, however when I connect the 40x2 displays nothing will show up. Could this be due to the displays requiring a negative 0.3V on V0, as described in the tianma module. Or do these displays need negative contrast voltage?