kris

hello there not been here for ages as usual its totally changed well not changed but evolved and moved on lots since last visit , as you would expect anyway im going to get my all in one midibox 64 computer set up running again to which end im thinking of upgrading the motherboard, cpu (dead motherboard at the moment) id like to run one of the intel i3,i5,i7 lo power versions, im wondering if anybody has experience of these and could recommend i micro atx motherbuard chip combination that would be compatable with running as a hackintosh regards kris

thanks for that regards kris

hello there everybody has to start some where have you got a soldering iron can you solder?? i would suggest this is the real starting point regards kris ps sorry if your a bit more advanced than this

thanks for the reply thats stopped it okay does that mean its just aproblem with midi ox, as ive never had this problem before regards kris

hello there i have a most peculiar problem that really has me confused, i completed my all in one midi-box and after the usual trouble shooting etc all seemed to be fine. The other day i even got it interacting the way i wanted with reason and abelton,after being in heaven and playing with it for about 4-5hrs it started producing random midi signals so i thought it was something to do with ain interconnections again, after in inspecting the wiring i couldnt see anything wrong. so i thought to re-install the midi-box app this i did with mios studio2 when using this after installation there where no random midi signals (problem solved i thought)but when i go back into midi-ox at first there are no random signals but as soo as you touch a pot this signal just repeats continually (which ever pot you touch is the one that repeats continually)this is just in midi-ox and not mios studio it also works fine in reason and abelton obviously i could just use it as is but its a bit worrying any ideas to what is is would be gratefully received regards kris ps i tried reinstalling midi-ox

thanks for the clarification im dyslexic so it can be difficult for me to get information from written material sometimes regards kris

hey thanks for the response, ive read this folder and i dont understand (id be the first to admit im a bit slow sometimes)do you mean use the midi learn function??? as reason doesnt have any midi out!!! regards kris

hello there the problem im having is when i assign say the first slider to an audio track in live its okay, but all of those 8 sliders on the midi box are then assigned to that one slider in live. (i hope ive made that clear) i know i can alter this by altering the midibox64 app or is it the sysex values i dont know how as i havent had to do it before so a link to the imformation i need to read would be amazing regards kris

hello there here are some pictures of my midibox all in one remake, i first made this a few years ago but ive recentlty finshed a new mixer layout for it at the same time i upgraded the computer components and put a 17inch touch screen into it. ive changed the software that i use and am currently trying to get it to work with ableton live and reason5 rewired i am having problems with this so any advice would be gratefully received regards kris

fortunately janis i didnt have to as this was suggested for the problem of the second board not working which was fixed with ssp's suggestion thanks tho still not found the solution for the one button not working, now the only thing i can think of is different dinx4 board but i dont have one to hand. so i think i just make it one of the outof the way buttons that doesnt work and live with it regards kris

youd think so but ive checked the connectivity quite a number of times now, including running a different wire from the button to the board no change in the situation. The only thing i can think of now is if one of the resistors is faulty ( could this produce this fault??) unfortunately i dont have a replacement to try at the moment as usual any ideas of where to go from here appreciated regards kris

thanks for the idea unfortunately ive already replaced the button with one i tested with no change to the situation regards kris

thanks very much ssp thats exactly what i had done so now thats done yippee, but i have one button that is not working. ive tested the connection to the din board okay ive checked the ground connection okay ive replaced with another button no difference i swapped two chips around on the board no difference again any ideas appreciated regards kris

hello there ive managed to cure the random signals on my new midi-box64 but now ive got a problem with some of the din inputs. half are working and half are not, the 4 chips on the first board work and the 4 chips on the second board dont. ive swapped chips from one board to the other all the chips work. ive checked connections and wires from buttons to board all okay ive checked connection from first din to the second din board, its okay ive checked theres a voltage to the second board 4.99v now ive run out of ideas so any creative input would be appreciated regards kris

thanks for that faulty pot replaced, the end of random signals but now ive found not all the buttons are working i think its in banks of eight so im thinking maybe the 74hc165's im going back to check all the connections and wiring and then maybe ill swap the chips around, but that will have to wait until later so ill get back to you on that thanks very much for all the help happy solstice kris whoops spoke to soon just turned it back on and the random signals are back again oh well it will have to wait until later

thanks for the reply the midi signal im getting is b1 4a 20-30 the last figures are cycling very fast unfortunately i havent got a wiring diagram, but ive kept the wire as short as possible and wired as starlike as possible (ill try and get a clear photo) ill run the test app ain64_din128_dout128_v2c.later when ive got time today one idea ive had is that ive got two jog shuttles(din) that i know there is no code for in the midi-box64 app(my idea was to get the hardware working then sort out some code for them) could these be causing the problem?????? regards kris

ive been checking my midi-box again, i really dont think its any dodgy pots ive checked them and they seem okay and they are from the same batch as ive used before. for the 4051 ive left out i have definately clamped the inputs to ground(vs) on the ain board and on the core on one of the 4051's im only using seven analogue inputs so for the unused ive clamped it to ground on the ain module but not on the core, is this correct????? so i really have run out of ideas now so any input would be appreciated regards kris

sorry i didnt make it clear ive clamped all the unused inputs to ground on the ain module and on the core, thanks for the idea about faulty pots regards kris

hello im now debugging my new midi64 controlller but im getting lots of random midi signals ive checked and rechecked quite a few times now the unused analog inputs from the 4051 ive left out on the ain board and the core. so now ive run out of ideas what it could be so any ideas of what to look at next would be appreciated regards kris

thanks very much i can get it from the link you supplied The PIC16F version of the loader can be downloaded from serge.midibox.org. this is the link i was trying to download it from, i hope i have inserted it right its on this page http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_syxloader.html regards kris

thanks very much for the response i appreciate it, but unfortunatetly the link to download serges sysex loader 16f version isnt working. The 18f version is available but not the older one. regards kris

oh well obviously not regards kris

Hello there does anybody have a copy of vmidibox64 16f, or will vmidibox64_18f_v1_0b load a sysex file to my dinasaur of a midibox loaded with a 16f877 mb64 v.03 best regards kris

thanks very much for the quick reply thats exactly the information i needed ill worry about the programming when ive built it regards kris

Hello ive finally got round to finishing the new mixer layout for my all in one midibox (see pics) im stuck as i dont know how to connect the jog shuttles heres the data sheethttp://www3.alps.com/WebObjects/catalog.woa/E/PDF/Switch/Encoder/SRGP/SRGP.PDF ive been reading this and wild weasels build log for his dennon controller, but i just cant make sense of it. There are eight connectors on each jog shuttle 1 2 3 c1 4 j2 c2 j1 on normal buttons (din) theres one ground pin and one send pin ,so if these jog shuttle act like four buttons in mios which pins are the ground and which pins are the send? any help would be appreciated as its become frustrating so near yet so far regards kris P1010028.JPG P1010050.JPG P1010028.JPG P1010050.JPG