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  1. MetaEvent help

    in MIOS programming (Assembler)

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    Hello everyone,

    I'm having a hard time figureing out how to make metaevents work how I need them to. I would like to know how to send two cc's at once from an encoder or a button, and also how to send an nrpn stream. I have looked at all the examples I can find, but I just dont understand assembler. If someone could help me out with some code I would really appriciate it.

    Thanks,

    Luke

  5. Button groups

    in MIDIbox HUIs

    Posted

    Been searching around and think I found my answer but just wanted to make sure.

    Is it possible to associate buttons with the encoder groups? Like if i have 32 physical buttons, do I get 32 more virtuals like the encoders?

    Thanks,

    Luke

  7. Midi time out with no midi

    in Testing/Troubleshooting

    Posted

    For the shutting down and powering back on very fast: That´s pretty normal. The cap stores a little energy over a short time, so if you power back on within a range of let´s say 2-4,5 Volt, everything is messed up (especially the LCD controller) - so no problem about that.

    Ok great, I wont get too concerned about this.

    For the Midi problem: Did you use a LTC? You did not use the MAX-IC, right? Looks like your Midi In somehow gets to the Midi Out. For testing out the Core (only) unplug the Optocoupler (small 8-pin IC) and look if it works then (just keep the LCD connected - the LCD has nothing to do with the MIDI stuff).

    I did not use the LTC. I will try remvoing the Optocoupler and try that out tonight. The funny thing is that it was working very nicely, and then bam seems to have broke. Thank you very much for the help.

    Luke

  8. Midi time out with no midi

    in Testing/Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Hello everyone,

    Well I got my midibox64e up and running and it was working great. I did a reconfiguration of the hardware controls and plugged it in last night, and attempted to upload the midio128 program to test out all the controllers. The core crashed about half way through and gave me the "Midi time out, whassup" error, so I tried to reinstall the program, and no luck now right after it displays the firmware, it goes straight to the midi time out error. I unhooked everything from the core, except the lcd and I get the same thing. Sometimes if I power down and then power up quickly, i get an endless stream of very fast moving characters, or just a corrputed looking screen. I dont understand, cause it was working great. I rechecked all the connections and everything looks great. I am going to try and burn a differet pic to see if its just corrupted software. Anyone else seen this before? All help is appriciated! Oh, I made this core from one of smash's kits so Im sure all the parts are correct, and I searched and read all the posts with the error code in them, but none seem to have the same problem as i do.

    Thanks,

    Luke

  16. Frontpanel Express and Hammond enclosures

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Well, I emailed them, and they told me that if I send them the enclosure, they will cut it for me, and that it doesnt have to be a flat panel. Same way you would if you were using their material, do your design, and submit it to them through Frontpanel designer. Unfortunatly, I think my controller needs more space between the knobs, so Im not quite sure its gonna fit in a hammond now. Im still working on it, so Ill let you know how it goes. Thanks for the tip, Ill email the guy.

    Thanks,

    Luke

  18. Frontpanel Express and Hammond enclosures

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Hello everyone,

    I found a hammond enclosure, that is perfect for my midibox, but reading the forums, I had read that FPE will only cut flat panels. Well I contacted them yesterday and they told me that they can in fact cut my panel into a pre-made Hammond enclosure. So I will let you all know what the results are when I get it back. And it turns out that the enclosure will cost me about the same as the aluminium panel would have cost from FPE. For those who don't know Frontpanel Express is the US counterpart to Shaffer. They use Frontpanel Designer aswell.  It will probably be a while, cause the enclosure I need is'nt stocked by anyone and its like a month lead time.

    Luke

  19. Linked cores

    in MIDIbox HUIs

    Posted

    Yes I did, that led me to this question.  What I want is to build my current controller that I have planned, then eventually add a MBLC to my setup, but I just thought it would be nice to integrate them together via the midibox link. Im just still unsure as to whether you have to write a custom program or if you can just run the established applications in different combinations.

    Thanks for the help,

    Luke

  22. LC question

    in MIDIbox HUIs

    Posted

    Is it possible to build an lc (kinda)clone, only utilizing the control portion of the controller? Like the jog wheele and stuff, but just kinda add that on to a midibox 64e? I have my 64e designed, and its just what I want, but Live will be integrating Mackie control soon, and I would like to add the ability to navigate and stuff from the controller, but i dont want the motorfaders, and I need more rotaries.

    Thanks,

    Luke

  24. Snapshot question / Button state.

    in MIDIbox HUIs

    Posted

    Hi Thorsten,

    Thanks for the quick response.

    MB64E can "only" receive the parameters of the currently selected bank. Means: 128 encoder values and 64 button (LED) values.

    Each bank is divided into groups. With 32 rotaries you have four groups, which can be selected with "Special Function Buttons" (see sfb table)

    So these 128 encoders and the 64 butons are always being updated, even the encoders that are not "active"?

    [*]in the last time it very often turned out that people don't really need the high flexibility of MB64E, but just want to use their MIDIbox to interact with a host application. This means that normaly encoders only have to send 7-bit or 14-bit events, the buttons should send Note events. If the appr. CC#s and Notes are statically defined (e.g. Encoders always send/receive CC or NRPN, Buttons always send Note On/Off), an alternative application could be realized which only supports predefined events, but can handle with up to 640 encoder parameters and 1024 LED values at the same time!

    If I am understanding correctly, this would be perfect for me. I would have way more available parameters than I could ever need in a relatively small MidiBox.  I ussually only ever send cc values. I hope very much that you could find the time to do this, I would love to assist, but I just dont have the skills.

    Thanks again!

    Luke

  25. Snapshot question / Button state.

    in MIDIbox HUIs

    Posted

    Ok sorry if this is an old question.

    I am building a controller for Ableton. It will use 1 core to the max pretty much, 32 rotaries, 64 buttons, and some leds. The question is, say i have some stuff going in live, and some of the leds are activated and indicating the state of a button in live. If I go to my next snapshot and make some changes, push buttons ect. when I come back to the original snapshot, will my button state come back? Like will the lights on the midibox represent the positions in live? What if I manually change a button in live with the mouse, will the midibox reflect that change?

    Thanks,

    Luke

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