jackchaos

Because you have the hardware working and you have the development environment working. As long as you still have flash ROM available, you can make it do whatever you want! That's the fun part.

You're officially in the 'fun phase' of development.

I agree, Nice work Julien. Does the Arpeggiator work?

Looks like everything is coming along nicely. Congrats! P.S. You can attach files directly to your posts here, and later remove them if necessary.

Julien Is it working with 1 Matrix 1000? Is the edit buffer working too? I'm looking forward to seeing the product of all your hard work on YouTube. At least a demo of the controller and 4 Matrix 1000's.

Julien Congrats on getting this far! Are any of the controls working... pots, leds, encoders? Its been a while since I looked at the source but taking a quick look... Apologies, the DIN/DOUT config could have been made cleaner. Yes you will have to edit both din.c and din.h to config pins. din.c: Has to be filled in (DIN_ConfigMap[32]) The dins need to be listed in order that correspond to their pin number in the array. And of course each entry must point to the the DOUT pin for its corresponding LED. din.h has a few of the pins in din.c #defined to improve code readability wherever its used. So make sure anything in din.h that starts off with #define DIN_ or #define DOUT_ pots.c: Rearrange the entries in PotConfigMap[] to correspond to their pin positions. Then edit the #define POT_OSC1_***, POT_FILTER***, etc. in pots.h to match their config in pots.c

Modularman First, let me apologize for the late response. I've set it up so I am notified when new reply's are created. Second, thanks for your interests and I wish you the best making your Chaos Matrix. As for your questions, MIDI merge: I got lazy with the MIDI merge issue and ended up buying an old MIDIMan merge box on eBay. You could just as well build your own merger using one of the projects on this site however. The Chaos Matrix will work fine without one, but the buffer synchronization features will not work without the merge. 2 Matrix's: That's a good question. I do not have 2 Matrix's to test this with, maybe you can test for me. Try sending a couple of sysex messages to the first unit in the chain, and test whether you get the response from the MIDI out on the second unit. Request Edit Buffer, you should receive 275 bytes back F0 10 06 04 04 00 F7 Then send a parameter change, DCO1 Frequency high: F0 10 06 06 00 3C F7 low: F0 10 06 06 00 10 F7 If both synths change OSC1 pitch, then the Chaos Matrix will work editing both in a 2 unit mode (12 voice) without any changes to the firmware. As for layering two different sounds on top of one another, the Chaos Matrix currently doesn't support this without changes. Please, keep us up-to-date on your progress. Regards, Patrick

julienvoirin The software is pretty much complete. I've attached the most recent version to the original post. I realized you're not building a Chaos Matrix but the source will make a useful reference for your own project.

TK, I am sincerely honored. Part 2 Part 3

Optionally you can have the filter cutoff knob send CCs instead of sysex. The sysex is necessary for programming and saving a patch. However the cc improves performance if you want to tweak while playing. When you enable this feature in the filter menu, the first unused matrix modulation bus is used to modulate filter cutoff with lever 3 (breath controller). The filter knob will then send breath controller CCs instead of sysex.

Posted a video demonstrating the Chaos Matrix. Link also provided on the original post.

I sent you an email to the address on your website.

How so? I need two MIDI inputs. One for a keyboard controller or sequencer, the other is for the Matrix 1000 (this is how I get edit buffer sync to work). The midi out goes back to the Matrix 1000.

Updated the photo on the OP with its new wooden enclosure. I'm getting very close to completing this project. I still have a few things to do. The cabinet was built with oak boards from Lowes. I used the howto here as a reference: http://www.synthesizers.com/diycabinet.html What's left? The electronics need to be mounted inside the wooden enclosure. Rear panel with MIDI & power jacks A MIDI merge has to be built, its necessary for the edit buffer sync feature. The encoder setup isn't perfect, I still get occasional skipping. A few minor software adjustments