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thanks everyone! Looks like you're in the right area.. while the regulator is fine on the SID module, i found out that my power supply intermittently supplies 8.5v instead of 5v!! I'm using a commodore diskdrive AC adapter which supplies both 12v and 5v.. looks like it's fried. I can't blame it, it's been through a lot all these years :D edit: andd when they tell you "no user serviceable parts inside" they mean it. The whole thing is encased in resin, well off to craigslist and ebay :D

I will give that a shot, it might be my regulator on my SID module.. however whats weird is that it'll freak out, then come back and work for hours, then freak out, then come back and work for hours.. I have a heat sink somewhere around here I can try to attach too I think

Hi all! Long time no talk.. I haven't forgotten about everything and everyone here though. I've moved to doing most my development on AVRs due to the GCC port availability. I *finally* after multiple years have finished my midibox SID. It took 2 SID chips, 3 recasings, 2 resolderings, but I finally have a unit that for the most part functions.. the SID was my first DIY synth and through making it and remaking it, it provided me the basis to go on an make a number of microcontroller-based AVR projects from scratch as well as build a x0xb0x :). Anyways, my SID does this weirdo thing. Peridically, maybe after 10 minutes use, it will sound "grounded out", and the contrast on the LCD will freak out so it appears that both lines are completely solid on the LCD. If I leave the unit on it will go away after awhile - it used to take a long time like a half hour but recently the glitches are shorter, like 20 seconds. If I turn it off and on it doesn't immediately fix it. Could this be a faulty/tempermental SID chip? I'm looking for someone to say "yup, I had that problem, faulty SID".. if no one does I know how to troubleshoot most everything else but I'd rather not have to start seperating my modules again to hunt for the problematic module. Thanks! Tom

Thanks for those references!! Time to go master that app :D

hahaha! Why didn't I think of that? My gf and I were playing with that on my mac a couple weeks ago :D Are you sure the mp3 doesn't have the speakjet though? it has a very different robot voice at the start counting down. Also: do you have a link on the syntax of that mac voice commands? I only knew the "say" commandline command.

oops! Sorry, shouldn't be trying to do this at work.. http://www.myspace.com/boysnoizemusic After listening some more I'm almost positive that a track on his album uses the speakjet, listen here: http://www.woopwoopwoop.com/boysnoize-arcade_robot.mp3 (its a promo so I don't think I'll get in trouble :) ) However I think he might also have some other way of doing a more hi-fi robot voice (like the promo voice that repeats throughout the track), possibly microsoft SAM -> bitcrusher or something similiar.

Somewhat OT: Anyone think that the speakjet's what Boys Noize uses? http://www.myspace.com/boysnoizemusic, not sure what tracks he has on his myspace (and can't check, no flash at work), but most of them feature the robot sounds. & down, for example.

Hey Michael, I'll hold onto mine for a bit.. I'll probably add a bit more to the simulator as I'm using it. Cheers, Tom

Thanks a lot AC, I'm now using the ACSync code extracted from the rest of the ACSensorizor stuff. I also got ACSim working in linux (required minor changes). Right now am I right that the wiki is the only place to get the ACSim code? I'll do a diff between my version and the version that's on there before putting it online, although I guess at least the wiki software tracks changes..

ooh! nice AC, thanks a lot! I just got the dev environment set up on my work computer and was going to start from scratch again from clockbox 1, but if you have all the sync issues dealt with that's half the battle :D

time to fix this and write some code at work :D

so wait, you're saying that each 4-pad quadrant cannot have 2 different velocities at the same time? wow.. that's rubbish! Almost scandal-worthy!

not enough :(. I have a TODO that can waste more of my time to parse than I have to devote to my projects in the first place.

If you limited yourself to 8 pots per core you could wire it up without the need for any AIN modules since J5 can be directly connected to 8 pots. I couldn't find the link to details on ucapps so someone will have to verify this for me.

Agreed that bitshifting is the best way to set your fields compared to hex constants. Looking closer, you're right. I was thinking the macro would get expanded into the code but reading the declaration closer it'll all get processed in the preprocessor and just the new hex value will be put in your code.