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this is true if you supply a correct IBAN and SWIFT (aka BIC) code european banks are slowly adopting the same pricing for transfer but it may still be different from country to country.And of course this is valid only for Western Europe. !!! failing supplying a valid SWIFT will make you pay the whole international transfer fee. Simone

hey total was wrong already! great job Seppo, thanks Simone

hi some time ago i began a modification of the CORE especially thought for DIY home etching, that is with wider tracks, bigger pads and smaller holes... i messed around with Eagle and eventually never finished the project, nevermind i have a bunch of unfinished projects.. Now that i moved back to the countryside and i need a way to spend my nights i decided to take back this project but to redraw the whole thing in Kicad. Kicad is an "almost" (currently available for Windows and Linux and possibly for Mac as well if you can compile) cross platform tool for creating schematics, pcbs, Gerber files and much more. Why Kicad? cause it s free and open source, that was enough to push me to learn how to use it and it took just an evening to draw the entire core and learn the program, but i am smart you know.. Is Kicad better than Eagle? There are pros and cons but i think that now that i ve made the move i ll stick to it from now on. So here is the schematic of the Core (i have to admit i had some problems to get a decent render but this should be enough..) Please check it out and tell me if you can spot any error EDIT: Error 1: +5v and GND connection in the supply schematic missing Error 2: Q1 is 10 Mhz and not 20 Mhz Error 3: fixed reference of J2

[me=cimo]flirts with Ms Job but is officially married to Ms Torvald.Since he broke up with Ms Gate they can t talk to each other anymore.[/me]

he should have beaten up Bono instead

http://ucapps.de/mios/midibox64e_v2_2a.zip main.asm line 7 ;) using USB s power has always been tempting to me and i had some good results, i think that a DC-DC converter (stepup+stepdown) may help preventing voltage drops due to lack of power on unstable situations but surely won t help where there isn t just enough juice.. not me! nothing "official" enough atm just a lot of blurbing

sure, the issue comes only if you try to power let s say a CORE+LCD from USB.

buy a Mac and be on the safe side [me=cimo]hides under the desk....[/me] i did my own little research and yes i was wrong on saying that it was "out of specs", "offcially" it s not out of specs.. nevertheless riding around the net about USB power specs you ll see how everybody agrees that USB doesn t really go along with the words STANDARD and SPECIFICATION but unfortunately it goes along and very well with the word massively spread around... and we all know that the fact that all flies go to shit doesn t mean that shit is good.dot It is probably useless to keep on this discussion (or not?) and what is stated on the GM5 is eventually correct, it was not ERRATA at all, maybe it just needed some add-on like "hey guys in the real world you could encounter this and that problem".My wrong, my apologies TK. then we have to assume that: -Either a lot of PCs out there are pieces of crap -Or the definition of piece of crap is in the real world "an average PC" -or both ;) "Unstardardized" USB power management is so common that most of external USB HDD case have a double plug so that they can draw double power from the PC My 2.5HDD 120Gb 7200rpm with only one plug will run just on some machines. can you link me to this spec? afaik USB standard recognizes just high power and low power devices, nothing in between, i d like to know this once for all. Simone

.. i don t understand why you want to build a MIDIBox on a Marlboro ultralight box ???

hi with the original design you are off just 2 mm with the buttons right? now i am not sure if that s actually possible cause i never tried it myself but what about glueing a 2mm shim under the buttons? I am not sure if the pins are long enough, you can check it. even more crazy: get a throught hole plated proto board, mount the button/s on it, solder the buttons only in the top side then place the protoboard on top of another protoboard (i am assuming you are using proto boards for the CS but it could work also with normal boards+protoboards) with aligned holes, stick a 0,0005% tolerance cut resistor lead (Wilba s organizing a bulk order for these rare items) in the hole and give it plenty of solder. Simone

NO!

wicked, i ll make one for Sahira 2 different categories but this goes along with sasha s Ableton controller, nice work! Simone

alas! it was not me Simone

well well you re getting somewhere, read Stryd_one signature and you ll find heaven !

ok sorry i meant that USB 1.1 can t ALWAYS offer the same current as USB 2.0, this is especially true when used with older machines.I can t find proper documentation right now but i ll dig on it later on. This could be particularly useful to know on "my box worked perfectly until today.." situation, i do believe that a box with 2 COREs and a LCD wouldn t work on my old PIII machine with USB 1.1 interface. Simone

hilarious[me=cimo]slaps Wilba in the shoulder[/me]

In the new GM5 page it s stated that these specs are valid for USB 2.0 but not for USB 1.1

seconded, it was the only one i couldn t see till the end

search for Jimp aka bugfight 90 degrees dil header system on his mb6582 so far it s the smartest solution i ve seen Simone

ok i feel completely dumb now, but i can t find it myself, i was sure there was an option somewhere.. maybe it was just on serge vmidibox

in main.asm there should be a parameter to change the common channel :-\ nop there isn t, sorry, i was wrong. Maybe you can just import that function from MB64 code?

hi T220 can use more amperage so yes it MAY be a substitute, the only counterpart is the pinout and pins size. TO92 will just fit in the holes so it s your best choice but if you can t really source it then you may have to do a little pliers job and adapt the pins, consider also that probably the pins of the T220 won t fit the holes made for TO92 so you ll have to either enlarge the holes or get some 0.0005% cut resistor leads and easily solve the problem. Hope it helps Simone

Can you link us ?

Have you checked out MBLC ?

the deal is about more options and features for pots available to MB64, pots will work flawlessly in MB64E, read MB64 andMB64E pages to know about the differences