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me first me first me haz cookie http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,10635.msg81953.html#msg81953

3 years to find out how to make hyperlink in this forum... not bad

Yay! It started, although i am setting up a web page i ll give out some details cause all info is in Spanish. "Proximos" is a music, art and experimentation event that CoopAgricolaDrone , the colective I am part of, organizes every year around May. Last year we had a small Linux workshop and related activities but this year we finally brought the gear in and decided to organize a couple of electronic workshop. Yesterday we got 6 Casio mk10 for the circuit bending workshop, and saturday we open the inscriptions for the SID4all workshop where i ll lead a few guys to build their own SID box. Unfortunately due to lack of time and money i had to cut off the project and buy only 2 kits so we ll start with just 2 SID but we ll take in more inscriptions and organize a second batch whenever we ll get back the money from the gov (ugh!). We are asking for 25 euro for participating to the SID4all workshop, and the admission to the circuit bending workshop is free and you get away with the tuned casio. This is the page, still working on it but there is some info .. www.proximos.eu Simone

..yawn see how tech level is totally irrelevant when you have a good presentation, give me a brain implantation and stfu

no that means you don t need any extra explanation right? any of these would work Simone

Hating is an emotion

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Welcome back Foona I am downloading your stuff, cowboy ;) how s life in Sverige? What are this analog toys you ve been fiddling lately? Kjenna! Simone

What about this: fisrt you amplify a bit the signal out of DINs and DOUTs, a bc547 will do then in the projector room you build a matrix: 8 projectors x 2 switch each = 16 pins, that could be accomplisehd with a 4DINx4DOUT matrix, that makes 8 cables plus GND or V+. You need 9 cables that is a shielded 8 cores cable, cat6 LAN cable for example? Can t remember right now, or 2x 4cores cable. Simone (would this work?)

both it helps, a lot, if the connection will be "on the air" i mean outside a metal box then i d say it s mandatory for so long distances, also remember that it could work nicely in your lab and then give jitter in another situation, better to be on the safe side. nop, AIN-CORE is only 5 cables. You can find coax with multicore

Whatever, i just find it childish ok sorry let s say "odd" to say "I have great ideas but i won t share them, whatever the reason is. At this point i would ask you, will you share you new MIDIBox based project? Cause if not i am not willing to help you, nor will be most of the community. I do believe that all of the MIDI controllers company have an eye on MIDIBox, so what? Again, whatever do what you please and be welcome. Simone

Digital lines should do but try to use quality cable and good connections, no bad soldering joints. The analog part is way more sensible so coax cable is mandatory and a proper power supply.

Hola bienvenido pienso habras pedido a Sasha el permiso para utilizar su layout (??) si no obligatorio seria de buen gusto. los rectangulos rojos que estan entre las perillas y los botones son LCDs ? Aunque puedas empezar con una MB64 o MB64e para ver como funciona una MIDIBox como te aconsejo Alogic, estos dos poryectos no tienen las funcionalidades necesarias para tu proyecto. Si domina C podrias empezar todo de cero y crear tu propio codigo, de otra forma vas a necesitar de una MBLC para el SMPTE ademas te proporcionaria auto mapping para varios parametros (faders, los botones de 4 direcciones mas ENTER, que los tienes redundante en tu proyecto), los botones de transport, y otras cosas que tendras que ver por tu mismo. A la MBLC le anadiria un MB64E por lo de los encoders. Espero seas tan bueno con soldador y codigo como lo eres con photoshop porque es un buen proyecto bastante ambicioso Simone

yep, but eventually the spy from the east has stolen my plans !

hola Edu dependiendo de tus conocimientos en C esto se puede obtener por un solo potenciometro utilizando ELSE-IF statements, si no lo alcanza por el momento de aconsejo de utilizar alguna aplicacion en tu ordenata: midipipe para OSX midiox para windows

you build 2 boxes ? Why are the buttons sending a control change and should receive a note message?

MB is good for about anything.. go ahead!! (your idea smells beat repeater)

Thanks please stop PMing me asking for details about Lourdes ;) some other aspects of the dress, not MB related: as you can see she wears a kinda crown of tentacles, there are an iPhone and iPod attached on 2 of them with a movie of her mouth grinning and doing weird things as well as a vid of her eye. It s not so easy to see it but there is a rock (swing?) in the dress, she would sit on it, unlock the safety and jump all the way 6 meters high, on the other side of the swing we installed a 17 inches screen (together with over 40 kilos to balance her weight) connected to my laptop and a UPS source and we played the same video of her mouth

Believe it or not this is my latest MIDIBox I ve installed a 90A car battery in the dress (yes it goes on wheel), about 50 12 volts halogen lamps were installed in the "tentacles" of the dress, the lamps were divided in 24 groups, each group was wired to a power transistor 2n3055, each 2n3055 to a 2n2222 then into a DOUT pin. I used very basic C app that responded to MIDI notes sent by Ableton, i mixed the 3 minutes music for the show so i created a MIDI file/pattern to synch the lights with the music. To overcome the problem of having to start the MIDI file in Ableton at a given time (ie when the guys at the mixer started the music) i decided to go wireless with a Wiimote to start Ableton (via a little program called Osculator), another issue was to eventually adjust the lights to the music in case i didn t start it at the right time so i wrote a little PureData patch that let me use 2 buttons on the wiimote to speed up or down the tempo in Ableton. I also used PureData to prototype and "virtualize" the dress appearance before hand when it was not build yet, so i could start programming the lights. The sad note is that i got hold of lamps and transistor about 36 hours before the show so i had no the time to wire them up correctly, that is although the lights were synchronised all the nice left to right up-down movements were lost for a more "randomized" effect, i hope i can get hold of some vid soon. Special thanks to Stryd (C advise), Nils (material forwarding), Lucem and Philtaylor (DOUT-power transistor circuit)... and TK! oh well and Lourdes who carried around the over 300 Kg carnival dress without a itch. Simone ..you can actually see me dressed in black, short sleeves in the left side background, holding the wiimote ;)

yep i ve used the reactivision setup with Pure Data. There is a theremin patch somewhere inside the source code. I don t think that a normal camera is the way to go as long as you don t want to spend hundreds of euro in a pro-camera. The wiimote camera has an in-built hardware blob tracker (up to 4 blobs) refreshing at 100Hz, what i can t really understand is how to deal with camera/projector, i think i need to dig some GEM patches

Well i was digging a bit more in depth cause me and a friend are going to work on similar project. A wiimote will do a nice job for object tracking at 100Hz, and the capacity of tracking up to 4 blobs simultaneously will give you the possibility of tracking the rotation of a body/object for example you could track hands and feet. With a couple of these http://cgi.ebay.de/3W-Infrared-IR-LED-Bulb-for-Torch-Sony-Nightshot-NEW_W0QQitemZ360131496892QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_77?hash=item360131496892&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1229|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318 you would have enough for a room Since we get rid of the tracking via normal camera, a rather cheap camera could be used to get images of the bodies to be reproduced and manipulated, i wonder now what could happen because of the feedback loop created by the camera and the projector, i guess that the manipulation of the image should be enough to avoid unwanted artifacts.Any idea? Simone

I think that Enth has a bunch of them and is willing to sell them for a cheaper price, was that you Enth? I remember it was a Scandinavian for sure Simone sh err umpf ye 14 pieces, i see, anyway

Thanks, it probably doesn t add that much to you or to the conversation but for sure it takes my own time which i could spend somewhere else so please next time try something like "hey Simone you short answer doesn t really make sense to me please try to clarify your point" Now i see i ve misunderstood what you are trying to do, it was not clear in your first post, about the keys: you want to replace every key with a pushbutton, right? So basically this is not a MIDIBox project so this post should be in Miscellaneous Analog inputs can be used as digital inputs but not the other way round no you can t use them separately and no you can t use them for drums, the double switch system needs a real mechanical movement of the key while drum triggers and pads usually use piezos to detect the vibration of the strike That said you could try to create some custom pad that would reuse the key mechanism somehow.. There is also some code that calculates the time a button is pressed and transform it in velocity dig in the downloads correct, i would advise you to get a clearer idea of digital and analog input as well as MIDI note on/off and cc, that would help you a lot in this hack Simone oops and yes i would definitely follow SLP advise

Ciao Enrico non mi sono mai soffermato piu di tanto sul software del SID visto che con la mb6582 non ne ho mai avuto bisogno pero mi chiedo ahora in quale file si possono "mappare" le varie funzioni ad un determinato SR/pins Simone

It doesn t really make any sense to use a working MIDI keyboard keys to be retrofitted with a new controller...