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It wouldn't be so easy to just order some encoders from SmashTV in the US so I will use standard buttons. Where are they located in your design TK? I can just see 4 coloured buttons per track. best regards rambinator

Do I need to implement these buttons in my design? what is their functionallity. There are the normal select-buttons to select a track. I'm using the encoders from voti as v-pots. I don't know of any encoders I could by which also have a button functionallity.

by original i meant: where are these buttons located on the logic-control from mackie?

oK thanks a lot! The one from smashtv I didn't know. Thats just what I searched for. I didn't know that all of them on thorstens pic where mounted with the ring up... I know how to read schmematics, but I was too lazy to compare the schematics to the board layout, and I couldn't read the directions from the eagle components view because I don't know how the symbol for standing diodes has to be interpreted. I allready read someone asking for a picture like this some time ago (didn't find it again) so I thought it wouldnt be a problem to ask for it.... thanks rambinator

Hi! I want to solder the mf-board now. Can anyone send me a picture where I can see the directions of all the diodes? The one one the site is a little bit too small... Thanks in advance, rambinator

Hi! At the moment I am designing the case for my midibox lc. I stumbled across the question where to put the v-pot/select buttons. Is it correct, that these are the buttons of the original box that are activated by pushing down the v-pot? what are they used for in the sequencers? Something else: Is the scrub button next to the wheel not included in the midibox-lc? and finally: What does the MBLC Hold Layer button do? Can anyone help me? Thnx, rambinator

HI! I would like to order: 8 x RSAON11M9, N-Type Motorfader 8 x FK13x25 silverchrom. I'm located in Germany greetings! rambinator

Hi everybody! I'm looking for a program that does the following: Open a midi-file with a piano track and diaplay the notes on a virtual piano by highlighting the keys. Step by step to the next chord/note by detecting if the corresponding notes are pressed on a midi-device (I have a yamaha clavinova to practice on) or stepping forward via keystroke. I'm trying to play some pieces by richard wagner and the chords an grips are quite complex (usually 5 b's). I'm a quite advanced piano player but my skills reading notes are not that good, I always played from memory when I had piano lessons. If such a prog doesn't exist yet, does anyone recomend a freeware class-library for c++ for midi-handling, so that I can start coding this? greets! rambinator

Das ist ja cool! Da wird sich dieser ebay-typ aber ärgern. Ich finde da bei conrad blos nich die passenden leitenden knöpfe. habt ihr die gesehen? gruß rambinator

so.... ich bins wieder :) sorry wenn ich hier monologe führe! Es scheint so daß die meinsten softsynths bei der übermittlung der werte auf msb reagieren und dann einfach werte von 0 - 127 annehmen. keine ahnung was ich da vorher für ein komisches problem hatte, wahrscheinlich irgendwas falsch eingestellt. Also für alle, die nen joystick als modulator für irgendwas nutzen wollen: es funktioniert mit rejoice + midi-yoke + c2nrp... wäre nur alles etwas einfacher wenn die hersteller eine liste der nrps angeben würden... bis denne! rambinator p.s: Danke tk! Ich hab mir schon sowas in der art gedacht, dann werd ich mal durchprobieren, was sich alles ohne probleme steuern läßt und eine liste erstellen.

was ich bis jetzt rausgefunden habe: ich kann in der controller spur des sequencers den parameternamen auswählen und dann einen verlauf in die spur zeichnen. wenn ich dann den ausgang der spur in midi-ox beobachte, sehe ich, welche nrpn nummer das ist. soweit so gut.... jetzt kann ich den joystick anschließen und die bewegung mit dem programm rejoice einem midi-cc zuordnen, z.b. pitchbend. dann verbinde ich den ausgang von rejoice über midi-yoke mit dem eingang von c2nrp, einem programm zum umwandeln von normalen controllerdaten in nrps. Das funktioniert auch irgendwie, aber nich so wie ich es gerne hätte. wenn ich z.b. nrpn 9 steuern will, sendet das progamm richtigerweise B0 63 00 B0 62 09 sobald ich den joystick bewege. Danach müßte dann ja der wert gesendet werden. In c2nrp kann ich für den controller den ich definiert habe entweder last significant byte oder most significant byte wählen. keine ahnung warum der das haben will, das macht ja für den zu sendenden wert keinen sinn. Ergebnis ist folgendes: B0 63 00 B0 62 09 BO... <- hier kommen dann entweder zahlen aus dem bereich 8000-16000 (msb) oder 0-8000(lsb) (midi-ox zeigt dann ..data entry msb oder data entry lsb an) folglich kann ich nie die ganze wertemenge durlaufen, was dann bei parametern wie filter-cutoff ziemlich ärgerlich ist, wenn man quasi die drehknöpfe immer nur zur hälfte bewegen kann. weiß jemand was ich da falsch mache?

Hallo! Muß die Frage, die ich hab mal auf deutsch stellen... weil ich keine Ahnung hab ob ich das was falsch verstanden hab. Also ich möchte diverse Softsynths mit einem hardwarecontroller steuern (im moment mit nem joystick to midi programm, später mit einer midibox, wenn ich meine lc fertig hab). wenige softsynths bieten ja über standard cc's eine automation der wichtigen filterparameter und ähnlichem. wenn ich jetzt in einem sequencer in der entsprechenden midispur mir die controller anzeigen lasse, dann sehe ich wenn ich nrpn auswähle die ganze riesen liste der parameternamen. sehe ich das richtig, daß ich diese alle grudsätzlich mit einem controller auf diesem midikanal steuern kann (wenn ich auf dem gleichen kanal auf dem mein midi-keyboard sendet mit einem software merger und midi-yoke ein nrpn steuersignal einfüge)? wenn das geht, wie finde ich dann heraus welches nrpn welche parameter steuert? ich seh ja nur die namen. in den antleitungen der synths habe ich das bisher nich gefunden. da stehen immer nur so ein paar standard cc's die man zuordnen kann. Ich hoffe irgendjemand versteht was ich meine, ich weiß nich ob ich das alles richtig beschrieben hab. Wäre für Hilfe dankbar. gruß rambinator

well, I found the thread about psus in the german forum, sorry for this post. I think I will try the one thorsten said could work (from pollin DSA-0283A). reichelt doesn't have anything in this pricerange. would be much easier because i usually don't order somethin for 4€. maybe i find something similar at conrad.de

Hi! As the fortron psu doesn't seem to be available from pollin.de anymore I'm searching for an alternative available in germany. would this one from pollin work: ASTEC AA20720? or do I need something as expensive as a phihong schaltnetzteil from reichelt? greets rambinator

Cakewalk released their maintainance-update 4.02 for sonar which includes the controlsurface-plugin for C4. Maybe somebody who who has sonar fullversion can find out something about this. maybe the protocol is similar to LC. At least one could find out what the host is sending as query... cheers rambinator

Great! It works!!! There's always something you aren't aware of :) best regards rambinator

Uhh I think I din't! Tanks a lot I will have a look at it tonight.

Hi! I now have setup my daw and want to start testing my midibox. So far I have only connected ltc and two displays to the core. LC application starts up correctly and "emulation ready" is displayed on the lcd. when I connect the box to the daw via rs232 with yamaha cbx midi to com and start sonar 4 demo with mackie conrol selected the midi in led of the ltc starts flashing. but nothing else happens (no tracknames are displayed on the lcd...). Is this normal or is there something wrong? cheers rambinator

Good luck! And keep us informed. It seems to cost the same as the LCU.

you're right. so anyone going to buy one of these babies for educational purposes? ;D

that would be really interesting, but I doubt that mackie will do the same mistake again and release specs of the protocol helping other companies and hobbyists to build cheap clones. with the c4 they claim a perfect integration in logic 7 and sonar (coming soon). I think the only way to do anything would be to reverse engineer those interface plug-ins, but I don't know if this would be possible at all. would be cool if you knew a guy at twelve-tone or another company supporting c4. maybe someone more experienced can say something about this topic. cheers rambinator

what do you mean? i also thought about the paia-kit. do you mean you there are note the correct parts in the kit? compared to the manual that is available from their site?

one reason why i didn't investigate any further in this subject is that i don't know what one can expect from these "simple" theremin-schematics available on the net, concerning octave range sensitivity etc. i know there are also professional kits available but they are quite pricey... anyone there with experience with a circuit like the one posted by moog?

Hi! I was thinking about this midi-theremin idea quite often after I found out that bob moog doesn't build them anymore... but I've never gone beyond thinking about it :) So please tell me if you find out anything regarding this subject. cheers, rambinator

damn it, i just got a 200€ order from reichelt and i didn't see these boards in the catalogue... now i see them. I have to order some other items anyway. can anyone recomend a psu for midibox lc with motorfaders which is available from reichelt?