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ahem, how are we gonna establish a pecking order if you guys stray from the topic at hand! hehe anyways, all 8 SIDs rocking away now. holy crap how fat this is. as ferris beuller says, "if you have the means, i highly recommend it" can barely keep from soldering up the cp. hold firm, wait for the front panel, almost there.... stay on target... i'm like a kid waiting for christmas...

hehe, i got CRAZY and matched resisters and (gasp) transistors as well... and now i got stereo patches rockin. man is this thing fat in stereo. and that's just with two sid chips... 6 more comin up... wheeee!

ok i'm the first! well, after wilba, of course... and maybe only the first to crow... but still, RESULT! what do i win?

i wonder if we need a usa order and a eu order?

you could probably use regular piezos, which are much cheaper. a bit more work, though...

if anybody else had trouble finding R80, it's just left of the core1 pic while i'm tipstering: be aware that pads connected to the ground plane require a good amount of heat before they will melt solder...

i'd be in for 6

i think transient frequency domain information is irrelevant in this case. however, this does suggest a problem with midi rates. if you are interested in the transient info of a guitar pick attack, i think probably midi is not sufficient to transmit this, no matter how the data is collected. on the other hand, if you want to follow average power levels to control say filter cutoff, you should be alright...

given that you aren't interested in returning to frequency domain, 10k sample rate should be enough. envelope followers roughly follow the the power level of the input, and the energy level of audio signals above 5k is usually not very high. you would only really lose energy information at or near harmonics of 1/2 sample rate: 5k, 10k, 15k, 20k... so give it a shot. (unless you are wanting to track glockenspiel or something, hehe)

hehe, sarcasm is the tongue of the devil... seriously wilba, don't be down about any of this. it ain't no thing. regardless of these few little errors, i'm very grateful for you hooking me (and everybody) up like you have.

i want to make sure everyboday has seen this thread re. aout_ng http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=7830.0 regarding the max525, according to this : https://shop.maxim-ic.com/storefront/priceavailable.do?Partnumber=MAX525ACPP%2B&event=PartSearch&menuitem=PriceAndAvailability if we can get to over 25 chips (i want 4 for myself) the price drops quite a bit @ $ 35.98 for 1-24 and $ 28.58 for 25-99 (as of today anyway) note that the mb-cv with these is far more accurate than any commercial midi->cv i've seen (this is also true of the aout_ng, btw)

follow stryd's link and you find the "ugly" workaround: alphaimageloader... (ugly code, not display)

there is another workaround for transparency in ie6, but it's too painful to suggest...

transparent png is a known bug i ie6 try ie7...

new wiki ++good. so much easier to nav already. thanks guys!

I ordered some AOUT v1 pcbs from gold eagle pcb. These are double sided, solder masked, silk screened and otherwise identical to the original published (TK) version. Yield was more than I expected, leaving me with extras which I will offer to anyone for same price as mike in eu so as not to undercut him. People from eu should thus order from him... 5,50 Euros = 7,47505 U.S. dollars so $7.50 shipped to U.S. Not sure what to do about the rest of the world. Suggestions? NOTE: these are the v1 boards which require the MAX525 chip. If you are not controlling oscillators, (or maybe even if you are) you may want to wait for the aout_ng which is just about to be released. If you are in a hurry, or want the higher linearity (I know, I know stryd - slightly higher, ok-ok...) of the MAX525, these might be for you. I am still interested in setting up a group buy for the MAX525 chips. Maybe could combine with pcbs to save shipping. so... anyone interested? *edit* all spares are now sold.

wilba is dead right here. c0nsumer, you said you would take care of it. then wanted tk or smash to do it for you, like they haven't spent enough of their time and effort. it's time to man up and do what you said you would.

got mine. the red boards do indeed look stunning. and now the solder-fest-orama begins... thanks much wilba!

this is indeed a good price. a few questions: anybody used this company already? wilba? smash? this is the company sparkfun uses... what is "maximum 15% fail rate"? 1 in 6 boards will have a bad trace?

when i was a kid, i really, really wanted to go to a pirate movie. but i couldn't. cause it was rated "arrrrr"....

got mine this weekend. forgot to say thanks. so.... thanks! also, you was right: this looks way better than the blue one.

that's V3 of the sid pcb, not the MB_SID software version. maybe R3 would be a better choice for pcb revisions. this might get confusing, though, since smashtv labels his pcbs this way...

I definitely will be building some aout_ng as well, it will be perfect for the sid, for example. But as I understand it, aout_ng replaces the aout_lc, not aout v1. also, any dout pin can be a gate, right? this is from the aout_ng thread:

saw this thread and this one for the aout pcb http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=4884.0 I understand these are old threads, but I would be very interested in bringing them back to life if others will join in... I realize the aout_ng is out soon, but I still want to build the hi res aout for controlling osc freq, etc.

woohoo!