timofonic

Hello. I would like to know if the XCore from XMOS can be an interesting platform for MIDI and music hardware projects, so know the advantages and disadvantages compared to other chips like FPGA and microcontrollers like PIC or Atmel AVR. A fast looking make it a nice platform for many applications, but I would like to know the opinion by people from the MIDIbox community (specially developers). Regards.

Me? I even can't code a line of basic. I want to learn computer programming soon, but I think it's very difficult to me and not sure when being able to do something really useful. You can ask Raph, a canadian geek that does DIY hardware stuff related to retrocomputing (and a few other stuff related to microcontrollers) and maintains MikMod. Maybe you can convince him for sending a proper patch to sidplay2 developers or making some kind of fork if they don't reply. I find the idea of playing SID tunes from C64 with MIDIbox very interesting, but I have no skills.

bump! So this will be merged into the official sidplay2? I see the development of sidplay2 is stopped since a year approximately and nobody wants to continue it in a more active way. Time for forking? What aobut using sidplay2 from Debian? It seems to have a few fixes: http://packages.debian.org/sid/sidplay I found this for mac guys: http://www.sidmusic.org/sidplay/mac/

Sorry I'm tired and forgot to specify. I mean an app that sends the sid file to the midibox SID for playing it with the real chip, not an emulator.

Hello TK, are there a portable (open source too) and multiplatform SID player out there? A simple command line app is enough, so others will can use it as a basis for implementing plugins for audio/media players and such. Regards.

Just a tiny suggestion: I don't use Macromedia/Adobe Flash and want to play the mp3 examples. I can read the html source code and get the links, but is annoying. It could be great if having a section with al links to the examples.

Thanks! ;) Sadly, I didn't found the sizes I need on those shops. Luckily I found an ebay selled from USA with a lot of sizes and able do request a custom ebay item with all stuff I want. I'm afraid about the shippment cost being too high so I'll ask him as he said me, in the worst case I may find another shop or sending the package to some friend. I found a seller from Germany that is certainly a shop. I'll ask him about informing me in english and if possible to have a custom item for me. http://stores.ebay.es/fa-ars EDIT: Bad news, the owner of the shop replied me with an unintiligible english (worser than mine) and saying like only having the sizes of the shops... It could be nice if someone translates that cryptic message, I only understand certain meaning of it...

Nobody can help me? I did think there are people from Germany on this forum...

Hello, I want buy certain electronic components and metallized shielding bags in different sizes with zip-lock and reusable. Here in Spain is impossible to buy those bags in quantities less than 100 for certain sizes. Can anyone say me about great electronics shops in Germany that sells online? Not problem if only in deutsch, I may use an online translator or some friend helping me with the page. Of course, I want to buy midibox boards. If some nameized seller of MIDIBOX PCBs can sell me those metallized shielding bags too, I can buy it from him. Best regards, timofonic

I have no idea about this but... Does that japanese guy coded the OS from scratch? It seems quite interesting :) Do you can read japanese then? Does that guy knows about MIDIbox? 8)

Does the CAN interface provide advantages against a MIDI interface? It will be used for interconnecting all the MIDIbox platform modules in the future? You can have a big rack of different MIDIbox modules and connected to a nice panel on your desk using that CAN stuff, so not worring about putting an extremelly giant box on your precious desk space. Are there a good list of CAN interface cards for PC? What ones are Linux-compatible? And BSD? I found the driver stuff seems a bit messy, too many projects and it seems none is standarised. I found the following URLs: http://canfestival.sourceforge.net http://www.comedi.org http://www.port.de/engl/canprod/sw_linux.html http://www.vscp.org http://www.ocera.org http://www.can-wiki.info http://caraca.sourceforge.net http://canpie.microcontrol.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/cantalope/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fttcan4rtai/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/hms30c7202/ http://cantrace.sourceforge.net http://ar.linux.it/software/index.html#ocan http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtcan/

But he is the wiki admin and then fix those pages...

Ok, you are right ;) I'll read uCApps page in a more detailled manner, choose a page to start with and doing the "wikifing experiment". Then I will publish it and say it on this forum thread for your opinion. What do you think? :)

I'm up for spanish translation. I can try to ask a friend for brazillian/portuguese too but not sure. I want to help in the english article. Do you give a permiss to use content from your wiki and putting it on Wikipedia? For this is needed to relicense it to GNU Free Documentation License. If you agree, you have three options: 1. Putting the content I need to use for the wikipedia article in a different license with the following license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License#How_to_use_this_License_for_your_documents 2. Relicense your entire site and wiki to GFDL... 3. You can do something like this: http://portal.wikinerds.org/gfdl-nsk-2005sep

Hello, I'm a big fan of MIDIBOX and hoping to soon having the enough money for mounting a MIDIBOX SID. I'm addict to the wiki stuff and I have some experience on different wikis. I occasionally do some stuff on wikipedia and knowing the dokuwiki and tikiwiki syntax. I like to creating new articles and editing existing ones, my english is a bit poor but I try to write better on the wiki than forums or IRC/IM. I think uccaps.de information must be on a wiki, this will help a lot the editing of the information by other people and improving it. Of course TK can review those changes too. An idea could be merging wiki.midibox.org with uccaps.de into one page because practically all content from ucapps is about midibox. The actual page could be redirected to the wiki. TK: What do you think? I want to help in the wiki stuff, it seems it needs a bit maintaining on certain stuff and I ask permission and your opinion before doing something. I don't want to annoy with stuff you can consider wrong by some reason I don't know. If you agree, I will help all possible on this effort and helping to maintain the wiki.

http://www.tototek.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=281 I did that too and it works ;)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3462908789880309791 Please look at that video, you will get impressed! :D Definetly, the Wii controller can became the definitive control device for real-time MIDI instruments and more! :)

You missunderstandme completely! I just only said is one of the possible uses, I mean the wii controller can emulate a theremin-like thing. The possibilities of the wii controller are nearly infinite, please look videos about wii music.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Music http://media.wii.ign.com/media/827/827335/vids_1.html It can even simulating drums and there was a demostration by proffesional musicians. The wii controller is really very impressive!

Maybe is not exactly bluetooth, but some low-latency derivated. The device is the most precise thing I seen, it seems to be done with some kind of black magic by Nintendo, too good to be true. I didn't see latency on the presentations, it runs perfect!!! :o I'm sure the Wii controller will be reverse engineered and electronic geeks over the world will use it for their DIY projects!!! ;)

Sorry for refloating, but I have some ideas... I'm sure some people from here know about Wii, the new super-innovative (and obscure in specs) videogame device from Nintendo, mostly because of the controller. The controller has full spatial X Y Z detection, so it seems very interesting for a lot of uses like gaming, simulating real objects interaction and a lot more. Nintendo used gyroscopes and technology from Analog Devices for their revolutionary controller, and this kind of device can have *A LOT* interesting uses in the music world. Because the controller will probably be bluetooth 2.0, with a few of reverse engineering it will can be used for non-Wii purposes. Think of controlling a MIDIBOX with the Wii-controller in a matter of hyper-theremin in steroids, converting MIDIBOX on a real-time device for orchestal purposes or a great interface for creating weird and creative stuff, easier usage. Imagine controlling MIDI stuff in a like a orchest director, like a theremin user and an infinite number of possibilities! Because Wii stuff will be mass produced, those Wii controllers will probably be very cheap. I consider this very accesible for most users and I'm sure there are cheap bluetooth 2.0 stuff for use on DIY projects ;) Wii is still not released, but I think is something to consider for the future. What do you think, guys? ;)

Hello, I'm not sure if others said this idea, but here I go: I see the MIDIBOX project has many possibilities and is underrated and underused. I think it must use some manners for incentiving the creation of audio content with MIDIBOX. I think of a MIDIBOX compo, here are the rules I think for it: - A year of lifetime, in the end of the year the 50 best compositions will get some very interesting gifts (so sponsors is very needed for this). The minimun number of compositions for the compo are 1000 compositions, if that number is not reached, the compositions will be merged to the next year compo. - Only MIDIBOX synths can be used, not filters using computers programs or any kind of non-MIDIBOX synths (hardware of software). Midified stuff probably will be rejected. Original MIDI files and needed stuff (like sysex patchs) for reproducing them on other MIDIBOXes must be sended. - There will be a category for each synth. Music using various synths at once will be on a category named "misc". - Each category will win the same stuff. After that, there will be a "best of all" awards for the best projects of all categories, with a lot more important (in terms of price or interest and oriented for MIDIBOX users) gift. - All projects must have a Creative Commons license and must allow to being sampled and modified, in a GPL or BSD form (this must be considered, but those projects must be some kind of inspiration for future projects, so they must be copyleft and allowing modification and sampling). - The number of participations is unlimited. What do you think about this idea? First is needed some sponsors for the project, like some geeky universities, experimental music groups and studies... Best regards, timofonic

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/flinger/ I hope some of that can be useful! ;)

Wireless = more latency Remember latency is the main enemy for MIDI users :)

Ok, sorry :-[

But what about putting a pendrive or some small USB card reader where you have all your MIDI files and other stuff (SysEx stuff...) on your MIDIBOX synth? A computer for that can be overkill and for this is not needed USB 2.0, USB 1.1 at low speeds is enough.