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Hiya Stryd_One I think Ive done something like that wrong as I can see that the midi in is working and the LTC lights up ok, but the midi out isnt working, and also the midi out light isnt showing anything either. Checked and the midi wires are on ok in the right order, when Ive used the LTC board before I dont recall doing anything special to set it up, what have I missed and does it sound like the cause of my problem? Im getting no midi out from the core, no midi out or thru from the LTC, only in. If thats not the problem, whats the most likey next thing? I do recall seeing the midi out work and the out light go on when testing with the Midi IO 128 test application. Maybe something got bumped since then?? Just curious... could this project be further enchanced to have program memory and sync to midi clock? ** Update - I uploaded the code on mac osx with the sysex file as I still cant get mios studio running on mac osx with plumstone, ive read everyones comments on how to do it but its not working still, most of the mentioned downloads for the java update are for 10.4 only and im 10.3. I guess with sysex it could work without the midi out?? Cheers, John

Hiya! Ill let you know my results as soon as I get my midi out working! It could be made smaller I think by using encoders if you needed it to. Theres nothing in the sequencer that will do the delays like this will. In fact I think building it into the same case would be a great idea and having one IIC dedicated to the delay out or switched between it and another output. Ive added an LTC into mine for a second midi out for further layering of sounds from another source using the same delays. On the down side it doesn't seem to have program memory so its a "jamming" tool only from what I can see. All the best, John

Thanks M8! Worked a charm. All the buttons etc are working fine now ;D My only real problem now is that the midi out wont work. Maybe its the wiring. The LTC lights up on midi in, but nothing on the out ever flashes, nor do the signals make it out of the box on out1 or out2. So close to finally testing this thing out!!! All the best, John

Hey M8, Thanks for the response, I dont think I was clear enough. I need some way to know what button 1 is ie: SR Pin Name 1 1 BPM up 1 2 BPM down 1 3 Channel config up 1 4 Channel config down etc etc (obvioulsy these ones arent right).. Have I missed an area in the config files showing which pins go to which functions? Any suggestions would be cool :) Thanks, John

Im a bit lost as to where to actually connect up the buttons to now.. Is there anything like: http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp/mbhp_dinx4_16enc.pdf But for the buttons to connect to the DIN on this project, or at least somewhere that they are listed in the code?? I couldnt see anything logically telling me that button x is on SR x pin x. Can someone help please? Thanks! John

Hi All, Just incase anyone was interested I thought I'd post a couple of pics of the MMD so far. Not sure if its going to work, but it powers up and the screen comes on. Still have to cut the holes for the midi out and thru and wire up all the front panel buttons to the DIN board. All the best, John

Hiya, Im havingsome trouble with opening MIOS Studio. At the moment im using a G3 PPC OSX 10.3.9 with plumstone installed as per their instructions. When I load it the MIOS Studio title screen comes up but goes no further. Anyone seen this before? I should also mention I am running the stealth midi driver so I can use my roland serial midi outputs and inputs. Thanks, John

Personally I really like the idea of having a nice little mixer built into the project with digital control of the outputs. I would say however that the MBHP seems to strive towards two goals related to this (hope im not speaking out of line here, just my observation) which are 1) it must be easy to solder for a person with entry level skills 2) the chips must be very easy to get world wide. I'm not too sure how easy these are to get, but Im guessing that there not as easy to get as other chips (only as Ive never seen one but i'm a bit of a newbie), and from the PGA package shown in the PDF i'm also guessing that they wouldn't be easy to solder for a newbie? Other projects in the MBHP which have had hard to find parts have not worked out so well like the chips for the Aout which then takes a lot of time to try to find the chips, and even more time to develop easy to get alternatives like the Aout LC. Perhaps i'm totally wrong, maybe this chip can come in an easier to solder configuration? Maybe it is easy to get? Also maybe as it wouldn't be on the acutal sid board its a cool extra for people willing to build a board... If its viable would someone here have the skills and time to make up the PCB? All the best, John

Ok then, ive gone out on a limb and made a panel design for people to comment on as to if it would be enough to control all aspects of the MMD. Does anyone know what the 8 encoders would control and if they are needed to be added? This design is using all buttons only so all the holes are for momentary switches. I would have liked to add LED's too but im not sure as to what they may indicate other than that a button was pressed. It is also for a 20x2 LCD, Would this configuation do? Any suggestions? Cheers, John PS: This design was measured up for this enclosure (can be ordered easily in Australia and maybe elsewhere) http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=HB6130&CATID=5&keywords=&SPECIAL=&form=CAT&ProdCodeOnly=&Keyword1=&Keyword2=&pageNumber=&priceMin=&priceMax=&SUBCATID=644 MMD_Prototype.zip

Hi all, Is it possible to use an AinX4 board with the 64E? I want to make a fairly decent (full) 64E and also want to be able to add the http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_ext.html LFO extension as a control source. Would this be too difficult? Im also looking for a source of the ICL8038 chips for the LFO extension if anyone has any to buy or trade. Im going to build one of AC's sensorizer boxes too, so maybe I should just plug the LFO extenion into it instead of the MB64E? Any ideas? Cheers, John

Has anyone got any suggestions on the panel layout for this one? Ive got all the hardware ready to go but im not too keen on drilling into a box yet until I have an idea of the layout, which isnt clear to me from the software. What I need to know is if there are particular menu controls (ie buttons for screen, menu encoder etc) and if there are logical groupings of the 30 buttons, and if the 8 encoders would replace or compliment the 30 buttons. Anyone built one? If so got any suggestions, pictures, FPD files? Thanks, John

Personally Id prefer it to be squeezed in after Note/CC/Len, but only as I don't care if I loose my patches (if its done soon as I have a live show booked v soon with it :) after that I will care if my patches wont work again) but if other people wouldn't like it there then I could deal with it at the end of the list, but it seems more logical to have it after Note/CC/Len. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Tonight I get to try out the update for the first time!! Woohoo!!

Any offers at all before it goes on eBay? I would consider a lower price if that is why nobody has said anything??

Im looking to get my hands on 2, 4, 6, or 8 ICL8038 chips as used in the midibox LFO extension and also 2-4 sharp GP distance sensors as used in Cimo and Audio Commanders sensor projects. If anyone has either for sale or swap please let me know.

I like the look of your panel layout! Just a hopefully helpful suggestion... Im not certain but are your group buttons set out right? It has labels for 16 groups and 4 tracks but you get 16 tracks and 4 groups, maybe im missing your intention here, but thought id say something just incase as panels are expensive to do twice :)

Still havent been able to use the new build!! Cant wait!! Im sorry to say, I use that one as well :) Any room for a new one? Obviously the drum mode and chords modes couldnt go...

First things first, WOOOHOO!! Thanks TK! Especially for the improvements to the song mode. I havent been able to try it yet, but I will as soon as I can. I know you can do it that way, but I need to then go look up the IIC used in the menu of each track, make note of them all then go mute each one. What I was hoping for was to be able to solo everything from IIC1 (for example) from a menu, for midi recording in a multiport situation as it would be much easier and quicker that way. Awesome, this will make 1:1 copies of each track ie all settings copied?? Personally im the opposite, Ive got a lot of synths and not much in the way of audio FX. Id be REALLY keen to see as much in the way of midiFX as possible built into this beast! Is anyone else interested in this?? Im currently trying to build the MBHP Midi Delay just to add some, but im sure that this and much more could be a part of the sequencer??? I see where you are coming from, personally I have never used the loopback channels, never thought I had the need... You hit the nail on the head with what I wanted from the progression mode (except I thought changing keys over time would also be cool). Is there a way to make a menu to make the usage more straight forward? I will try to use the loopback channel to see what results I can get. Since there is no manual yet, could you explain what can be recorded into the loopback channel? Is it just the cc's? Whats the deal with the NRPN stuff there in the cc implementation? Do you need to do something special to use it? The feature I liked was the one where you could "turn" the whole pattern left or right in real time, is it still in there somewhere? Also, I recall a long time ago saying I would like note cc cc (fixed vel) as a track event assignment, and you saidit was there, but I looked again and didnt see it, what number is it? Sorry, am I blind? Ill say it again, WOOHOOWWW!!! I cant wait to try it!! Sounds like phrase mode is going to be very cool live... Ive got a gig coming up soon which I really needed something like this for, so thanks!!!!!!!!!! I havent been able to try yet so perhaps it will be obvious but does this mean that song 1 references patterns 1-4 which when pattern 1 plays it will dump the mixermap associated with it in the song, then when you get to pattern 2 a new mixer map will be dumped (so volumes, program changes, initial cc's etc can be dumped during playback different for each pattern or song??) Wow, I cant wait to get in front of my sequencer!!!!! Thanks so much TK!!!!!!!!! John

Hey M8, Sorry for the long delay! excuse the bad pun :) Im not sure on what I want to do, looking for some suggestions from someone who knows more about it or has used it. Basically I cant imagine how the interface would normally work ie is there a menu encoder, buttons under the screen like in the sid, would/could you use the 30 buttons and 8 encoders or whatever (and would that make sense??). How would it be laid out on a panel ie would 3 rows of 10 buttons and a screen be a good layout or are the buttons grouped by function etc?? I really want to buildone of these and ive got all the hardware ready, but I dont want to build a case etc not knowing how it would work..... Obviously looking at the code hasnt revealed inspiration for a layout for me...Suggestions??? Cheers, John

Looking forward to seeing what goodies you have for us TK :) THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortuantly the "latest" os for this machine is 7.5.3 which is a great os, but came well before java was invented.. No MIOS studio. In fact its only real use is to be able to record the notes coming from 1 IIC port at a time and play them back, but thats pretty important to me! I dont understand (but im sure theres a good reason for it) why song chaining cant be done, if a song can reference a new pattern as a part of it, cant the last change be to reference a new song instead? Like song mode on all TRx0x sequencers?? In any case, perhaps some of the other ideas might work out for people??

Hehehe!! Only as as a data recorder, nothing more, in fact its logic on an old 25mhz Apple 540c laptop with 12mb of ram, so its not really a sequencer :) If the song chain function was implemented then maybe I wouldnt even need it. All the best, John

After using the seq quite a bit more I propose the following as handy features for consideration if other people would also use them and TK or others were willing to implement them... The ability to solo each IIC output for multi port recording of midi events easily in an external sequencer The ability to copy all parameters in a track when using the copy feature in the utility menu ie inc all menu item selections as well as notes and layers A midi multi tap delay effect and maybe other midi FX as well as the current chords and progression type effects - id love to see the progression mode expanded somehow to allow for other uses where progression could also change after 1,2,4,8,16 bar cyles etc - maybe too complex?? Re introduction of the "Shift" feature (I remeber seeing that this was still possible but I cant recall where?? Especially as now F1 opens the utility menu) A way to chain songs even if it is very simple (sorry had to ask 1 more time :) its important to me. ) A way to load up and dump a mixermap automatically when you load up a certain pattern (if this wouldnt disrupt anything else??). Does anyone else think that any of this would be helpful for them too? Would these be technically possible? All the best, John

I have a 4x sid and dont want the space/mess of 4 volume pots, so 1 encoder would be better for me. Can the resolution of the volume be increased from 4 bit?

Hi All, Ive got a green/blue (not black) Korg MS2000-R for sale which is in good condition except for a small rack rash (I can throw in some large black plastic washers to cover this for your rack). It comes with a 240v PSU, manual and Im pretty sure I have the original box somewhere too. If anyone is interested let me know and I will provide photos of the unit. Im looking for about $600 AU for the unit which I think is a great price. If anyone doesnt know what it is have a look here: http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=MS2000R (once again mine is not the black one, its the blue green one, the difference is only in colour). It has a very cool step sequencer buit in, can act as a vocoder over an external input, has a built in keyboard to play the sounds, as well as a virtual patch section to allow the routing of the modulation signals internally. This unit is actually VERY useful as a midi control surface as all the knobs send midi already, and the keys send notes. Id prefer Australian customers so as to keep the shipping costs down, and I would also prefer insurance on the shipping just incase anything happens to it on the way, I dont want to be responsible, or for you to be unsatisfied :) I will provide shipping info to serious buyers only. I can also throw in a bunch of programs for it on a CD including the programs from the black version as well as some of my own if the buyer is interested. Thanks for looking, John

Artesia, I hope that its just Analogbrotha being all caught up over the holidays as many of us can be! Ive known Analogbrotha (over email) for ages and I think he is alright, Im sure he will do the right thing when he responds. Also he is way out in the far north of canada so your package will take a while im sure :) Let us know how you go. Also anyone looking for C64 housings or mainboards (SIDless), esp in Australia, I have some of each and also a C64 disk drive PSU which I could part with for some $. Cheers, John