Jaicen

Excellent news, well, sort of... Personally i'd much rather wait, I can't get on with that artwork at all, it looks terribly amateurish, nowhere near as professional looking as Wilba's. Are you/we going to be compensated by FPE in any way for the delay??

My payment should have gone through as a card payment, but if it hasn't then let me know. Any chance you could post a list of confirmed and paid orders??

Actually, I do expect the panel to be accurate to the vector render, that's the whole point!! They can obviously produce fine pitched lines, so I find it strange. The more I look at it, the more it bothers me. I guess the panels were cheap enough that it would be churlish to complain, but even so it's not what we ordered.

Yeah, first thing I spotted was those labels. They're not at all like the pre-order artwork, any idea what's going on there? I don't want to sound like i'm complaining, but it really doesn't look anywhere near as good, and I must admit it's taken some of the shine off the excitement (but only a little).

Right, think i'd better go take a look at this analogue toolbox thingy then! It was just an idea I had on my way to work and I got a bit excited by the idea. Basically, i'll be getting a CZ101 at some point, and I want to use that for mono lead and basslines. With the addition of an analogue filter, I think it'll be killer! EDIT: That's 4000 posts Stryd, nice work!!

I'm wondering, is it possible to construct a CV interface to control an external filter, that incorporates an envelope triggered via MIDI?? Possibly also with an LFO?? I'm assuming since MBSID incorporates software envelopes, they could be re-used for this purpose??

Erghh, i've not been invoiced! Have I been left off?

Yes, it would be possible. Any old roland GK pickup could be adapted for use in this system I guess. I was just trying to keep things simple and achievable.

As I said, if the controller was given highest not priority in MONO mode, then single frets would be no problem at all. Having six mini frets sounds to me like it somewhat overcomplicating things, and is not really necessary. I'm not sure that you'd be able to play it polyphonically anyway, since your fingers may conduct, inducing glitching.

Personally, I was thinking that you'd use one connection per fret. From a hardware perspective, it would be somewhat difficult to achieve that sort of split fret design.

Brilliant! Once you get some software working, i'll prototype up some hardware using say, 5 frets and six strings. I figure the matrix will be the trickiest to get working, so that would be where to start.

Jeez that sounds like :o !! .......Makes me afraid.

May I be the first to ask: WTF are you on.... (and can I have some please)?

Would anybody be interested in an idea of got for a guitar based MIDI controller? I'm thinking of a mono-synth, built into a guitar with the frets and strings forming the controller. Each of the frets will be wired to a DINx4, and will form a matrix with the six insulated strings. The controller would then have highest note priority. I'm thinking that a single DIN and core could be used to form the basis of the controller. Each of the strings would be connected to a pin on the DIN , and each of say 22 frets would be connected to their own pin. The core software would then be able to see which string was being connected to which fret number, and trigger the corresponding MIDI note. The clever bit would be the gate detector, which requires the use of an analogue input to the core. This would look for a signal from a guitar pickup (normal pickup). When the signal is above a certain voltage, that triggers a note-on signal, and when it falls below this threshold, it triggers a note off. Obviously it would be trivial for this to allow for pitch bend when a note is played before the previous note has decayed. I guess the gate control could be disabled so that when a note is fretted, it will sound without the need for a string to be played. So, what do you guys think of my idea?? I would like to apply it to a SID synth, built into a guitar, now that would be cool! I'd be willing to test build a the hardware (I am an amateur luthier), but software is a non-starter for me.

Thanks for reminding me of that TK. Unfortunately, it looks like not much progress has been made lately, otherwise it's exactly what i'm looking for :(

Sorry to be resurrecting an old thread, but has anyone made any progress on this?

That's good to know, and that's why i've bought my SID's from you rather than hunting down E*ay specials ;) I don't suppose any of the chips have working oscs but dead filters? Maybe we could use them with analogue filters? I know i'd take one if so.

Woah, Wilba really has gone mad if you've tested all those prior to shipping. Mine are the ones third row down, fourth chip in, before anyone gets any funny ideas :P

Yeah I think that's correct. I don't know if you've ever had to scale and tune a pair of VCO's (as in a Moog Prodigy), but it's a real ballache, certainly not something you could do live. I might still go for it, but I'd prefer something with nice stable digital oscillators for real reliability anyway. I really like the look of that MFB, i'm sure it would be possible with the MBHP, but alas... hehe

Actually, having just had a proper look at the site, I don't think that the Soundlab will be suitable for my needs. I want to be able to use it for heavy bass sounds and piercing leads, but it's only stable over around three octaves, which means that I could only use it over a limited range. Add to that the fact that to build one will cost at least as much as an SH09, I think I might be better off just saving up and getting one of those. In the meantime I guess I'll just build an MBSID with partial control surface. EDIT: Anybody got one of these: http://www.thomann.de/gb/mfb_synth_lite_ii.htm?partner_id=25293 Looks promising..

Funny you should mention this, because I actually have been looking into building one. The sound samples sound decent enough for what I need, and it's all on one PCB, which is even better. Plus, you can power them via a pair of batteries for ultimate portability. I think one of those with a keyboard scanner will fit the bill quite nicely.

In order of preference, i'd go for: Transparent Red Opaque Red Clear or white All Black

The low volume could be due to many factors. Have you hooked up a cable to the AV outputs to see if the signal loss is caused by a dodgy modulator?

Thanks for the vote of confidence Stryd! I am planning to build a couple of MBSID's, not least of which will be 2x SID6581 and a 8xSID Wilbabeast. Unfortunately, I don't have time to work on that for the next few weeks, and i've got a couple of gigs coming up on October. I don't think i'll get anything finished ready for then though :( With regards to doing it in analogue; obviously that would be the way to go, if not for the scarcity of things like tempco resistors that push the price up. I don't think I could build an SH09 clone for less than the £200-250 it costs to buy one. I'm looking to spend WAAAAY less than half that, especially with the Wilbabeast project in the works. Analogue stuff is also prone to drifting, which is not what you want when you've got a gig to do! Another reason I'd avoid analogue is the sheer complexity, when you consider what is necessary to produce two VCO's and a sub-osc, compared to what can be produced by say a core. I'm not looking for pristine waveforms, digital aliasing and distortion are just dandy in my view ;) Incidentally, I was bidding on a Monowave kit, but the price got a little too much for me. Now that is the sort of thing that makes me weak at the knees ::)

Awesome! How are they sounding?? Are you going to upload some tasty beats for us all to drool over??