lifeinabox

I have a midibox project that I know I will never get around to finishing. I have a core board that has been populated, a sid board that has been populated, minus the SID, as well as an 8x2 and 16x2 character display and a rotary encoder. If you are interested in this, or would like more information please email me at: lifeinabox at gmail dot com Thank you - kBud

I will be trying out these suggestions as soon as i have time hopefully today, thank you for all of your great suggestions I will let you know. - kBud

I am using the caps and crystal that were recommended on smashtv's mouser parts list. This is a very strange happenning. Once, as i said, i got it to start upwith the correct message, then the message became confused note on/off messages, cc changes and other such things. It got faster and faster until it reached a sort of peak speed. When i checked midi-ox for details of what was happening i noticed that there was an incoming bpm being measured that peaked at 375 BMP!! It was quite the flow of midi code. There are six points together on the core, the two each for the two caps and the crystal. If i touch those six with my finger the flood of midiout messages stops, then if i let go it gives the correct message then soon after it goes back to the flood, very strange. I think it is a great thing what you guys are doing and i am sorry that this nube has been messing things up for you, i just want a sid synth soooo bad. 8 months and still trying - kBud

I think that I might be having trouble with the crystal of the caps that bring it to ground. The right sysex will show up if i short the caps to ground and then let go, i don't know why???? - kBud ???

So i got midi ox to reveive the correct Bootstrap Loader message but for only a minute and then it started random note changes and cc changes again? - kBud :-\

Well it's erased now so I have no choice but to start from scratch, unfortunately. I wish i had better sense to just get another bootstrap pic rather than a jdm module. - kBud

OK So I tried to re burn my pic three times and now it keeps giving off an F8 -- -- -- --- Timing clock every 2 seconds or so and then soon after it starts to "freak out" and send random program change and note on and note off data. I checked all of the voltage readings on the jdm and the core and they were fine. Has anyone else encountered this? - kBud

Sorry guys, just a bad tech week. I am going to try to reload the pic with bootstrap loader on my friends pc. If I can get that done then i will tell you what is going on with it. The problem i had before with the Mac was that while loading it there was no error and then after loading it on there there was no midi response nothing coming out after power up, nothing coming from the sid. I will see where tonight gets me. you guys are great. - kBud

When I received the pic it had the bootstrap loader. I checked it and it was giving off the correct messages. Then there was an error during the midi sysex upload while following the Mac instructions for sysex librarian. Then I couldnt get an messages at all. So thats when I started asking questions in a previous thread. I was having problems with both my SID and the core so i was trying to get one that would work to troubleshoot the other. Everyone just says upload with MIDI and it will be fine, but in the case that it isn't no one seems to be able to offer any help. - kBud

I know I am not the only person who has had mios upload problems with a mac, is there anyone out there with a pc that could run these tests on their pc in the new england area or by mail?? I am totally desparate at this point. - kBud

It doesn't actualy make sense that a pic couldn't be programmed completely. I mean, I bought the jdm last week for the specific purpose of bypassing the midi problems I had been having. It would only make sense that you could do this, though as seen in my post i don't know how. - kBud

Well, the reason that I got the burner is because I was having trouble uploading the other stuff via midi so is it possible to upload all of it through the pic? - kBud

So, It seems that I have to burn the Bootstrap loader, the mios 1.7 and the SID application, but I just wanted to make sure those were the only things that I needed to burn to the pic (there were so many files it seemed I needed more). I am (eventually) running a single chip SID with a 6581 plugged into it, a 16 x 2 lcd with 1 encoder, 4 select buttons and 1 menu button oh and a bankstick. Is there anything else I need to burn to the pic? Thanks for your help - kBud

I live in Boston, Ma and I am to the point where i would gladly ship out any part of it if peopel would be willing to check it out. - kBud

I have rechecked the connections a dozen times, I was receiving the correct midi messages before the mios upload and in the mios upload is where it got off. I am also using a Mac so the sure-fire program suggested in the midi help is not usable. I have very little experience with sysex upload stuff and I just have no leg to stand on with troubleshooting. I have nothing that I am 100% sure that is correct to base further steps on except that I am now sure that my sid isnt dead. - kBud

Ok I did the whole checking the IC voltages long ago, I am just using setup A without the LCD and control panel. I got Bootstrap loader pre burned on my pic, then i was geting the correct messages through midi, then i tried to load the mios and Sid app through SysEx Librarian. Then Nothing no midi on startup no sound no nothing. I dont have an lcd because one that i got a deal on was bunk when it got to me and wasn't what the person said it was and didnt want to go through wasting more money on this currently lifeless project. - kBud

??? No Sound, and now no midi messages. Anyone willing to sell me a tested preprogrammed pic with what I need, or program mine so I can rule that out? I don't think it is a power supply problem, (but it may be)? I don't know if my sid is dead (Probably not all 3)? i dont know if the PIC is programmed wrong, but i think it is? And I don't know if the hardware is ok? Any good tests for dead SIDs, bad PICs or anything else? For someone relatively new at this it is a bit too many layers of troubleshooting to be working out at the same time. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. - KBud Midibox Sid Mios 1.7 main.syx 1.6final Midisport 2x2 midi interface Mac osx.3