nickw

I had thought about this, but most mixers have all the electronics mixed up with the switches and and faders on pcbs to cut down the space and make fabrication more reliable, but making them a nightmare for us to reuse easily -I do wish they would think about that when making something. I did get this on ebay for a quid though and am currently working on midifying it. Regular searches for vision mixers threw it up. It should be fairly easy -it is just the control part of the original system and its so big (about 5 foot long) most the switches pots and t bars are wired onto pcbs that only connect to them, then run ribbon cable to pcbs that work with that, so I mainly just have to decode the layout and routing of that and replace the main logic board with midibox stuff. It won't fit in my backpack though! 2b_12_sb.JPG

If I understand what you are trying to do correctly there is already a way to do it in live really easily without custom code in midibox. You can map midi events to trigger each track of the current selection within live, so that the same midi event will trigger the tracks clip in the currently selected scene. Activate midi mapping in live and look at the bottom of the clip boxes, a new line will have appeared that allows you to allocate relative triggers - move up and down a scene, and trigger each tracks clip for the current scene. HTH Nick

of this page (whoops) www.totalrobots.com/access_files/wcm.htm

or you might want to try something like this (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Motorised joysticks were mentioned earlier in this thread. I don't know if this is old news, but ALPS has them listed at http://www3.alps.co.jp/cgi-bin/WebObjects/catalog.woa/wa/keyWordSearch?key=rkjxf&keywordMode=and&language=english&country=ge&top_mode=2003&Search.x=0&Search.y=0 or if this link is dodgy search their site for rkjxf Happy New Year

do you have a address for holt ? Cheers Nick

Ifyou don't want to change them from sensor to pot during performance (ie: set it up then use it) you could use jack sockets with break contacts. With no plug inserted the signal comes from the pot, with plug inserted signal comes from the sensor.

Hi I'm on a Mac. I had to get the MIOS bootstrap loaded from a pc (I tried a usb - serial device on the mac running virtual pc but I suspect it didn't have a high enough voltage to actually burn the chip. Once the MIOS is loaded you can send the sysex files over MIDI using SYSEX Librarian from www.snoize.com/SysExLibrarian/ there are full versions in the downloads that can simply be downloaded onto the chip (the .syx file) , but you can alter them in MPLAB in virtual pc and then load them if you want to tweak it. Cheers Nickw

Hi I'm on a Mac. I had to get the MIOS bootstrap loaded from a pc (I tried a usb - serial device on the mac running virtual pc but I suspect it didn't have a high enough voltage to actually burn the chip. Once the MIOS is loaded you can send the sysex files over MIDI using SYSEX Librarian from www.snoize.com/SysExLibrarian/ there are full versions in the downloads that can simply be downloaded onto the chip (the .syx file) , but you can alter them in MPLAB in virtual pc and then load them if you want to tweak it. Cheers Nickw

the guy who made notron is getting something else off the ground www.grexultra.com although there are complaints that stuff has not shipped so you may want to hold off till stuff is shipping and there is some feedback on forums, it looks like this or the next thing he is planning may do the kind of things you are looking for.

This will do just what you want www.piengineering.com/custom/xkmatrix.php

Hi I've got a number of josticks (thanks to drifter for some) and they don't use the full wipe of the pot. I'm thinking about trying to write some code to cover this, but am aware that this maybe a hurdle that someone else has already crossed. I can' find anything in the stuff already available (although point me at it if I have missed it) or it having been discussed. I'm thinking something like the reverse of the MB64_POT_ScaleValue routine, you set the min and max readings you can get from your input and it scales them across the full range. Cheers NickW

I'll take you up on that. I'm putting and order in now. Cheers Nick