DavidBanner

Hey Tim, as the coffee kicked in while in my car I knew I'd should have put a revision number on there and it would come back to bite me in the ass... I was refering to the DIN R3 boards, just checked the liked and the pins have changed on R5... ignore me, I'll slink back into my cave like studio and continue on with the soldering and headscratching...

I'm pretty sure you know this, but I was linking 2 DINs yesterday and noticed - if you are using Smash's boards the J2-J1 link is not 1 to 1 if you are using a DIL plug.

Can someone please point me in the right direction, I'm having trouble finding any decent info. Here's what I need to do: In Ableton 6, I need to get Midi Feedback when I press a button that's midi mapped. This is so I can turn LEDs on and off. If I use something like the Mackie Control script it's definately possible to do everything I need to, but there is way too much other midi data flying about to make any sense of to do a direct hack. The files for the Mackie control etc are not human readable - any clues how they make 'em? I need to know how to build a custom Midi Remote Script myself, I don't think the "User Defined" using UserConfiguration.txt one is gonna do it (or will it?), because I need to get to stuff like buttons in VST plug ins (all do-able, but how?)

yup - that caused me a bit of head scratching for a while :)

i wouldn't worry too much. I travel with lots of strange bits of kit all the time. Vinyl is the worst possible thing to carry - the xray won't penitrate it, so they will often have a look, but somewhere like Heathrow where they seem DJs all day every day it's all good. The US I get to empty every record out sometimes, in Bahrain I've had the records confiscated so they can go through and check themselves, including LISTENING to asses any potential "unwanted content".... The Xray machines have atomic number displays which mean they can tell what a potential explosive device and what's a midibox. one of the madest things I had to do was get a whole load of devices with very strong EM radiation profiles airfreighted. It got classified as "Dangerous Goods" and I had to clear it through customs 1st - I rang the dept and the first thing the guy asked me was "what is it? guns, explosives, weapons??" lol, it got a lot easier once we established it was a bunch of electronics.

just a comment - and please don't take this the wrong way (esp if you STILL haven't slept). But I think you are mad: a) trying to solder with that little sleep, You make mistakes, you get clumsy and it's no fun. I won't even go near drilling holes or cleaning up acid baths if I'm at the end of a day and tired. b) using a midibox live that is not properly battle tested The potential for disaster is way way too high. I won't even trust stuff I bought from a shop if I'm giging. I bought a new audio/midi interface to gig with, but even though I tested if for weeks in the studio b4 gigging, I still took my old one just in case when I did my recent South African tour - another lesson learnt (for once the easy way), because as it turned out I would have been screwed as the new interface was giving a way low out (fine in the studio, not so fine in a club with no sound tech around and all the other DJs are at 100% of everything on the mixer) - a 4db drop ain't doing you no favours on the dancefloor... I've played in clubs b4 where the power has cut repeatedly: darkness, then emegency lights, and then lights and sound back on after a couple of mins. THE WHOLE TIME this is happening - boos and cheers from the crowd, getting worse with each time. My fault? Nope! Do the crowd know/care? Nope! Is it any fun? Not much, no... Imagine how you are gonna feel if your set goes horribly wrong cause of something you are 100% resposible for. And of couse let's not forget the reaction of your fellow DJs - it's not exactly an unbitchy scene and the ammo you'd give any jealous/small minded ppl would be massive... Anyway, good luck with the box, I'll be following your progress with interest. Test, test, test and then blow the b'stards away in confidence you are armed with battle tested kit....

cheers for the tip Michael, I'm already on that - ink is in direct contact with the board... extra small photons eh? mmm, the tricky bastards, I was only making provisions for the large kind... ;) but as said b4, the problem is sorted - it was a moody batch of PhotoBoard, or possibly down to me not storing correctly - has been hanging around for a few months

very cunning!

ah-ha!! found the problem... it was down to a dodgy batch of photoboard - tried some new cheaper stuff from Mega and it's all cool and groovey now... As a side note to anyone thinking of starting out with UV - I'm having great success, but the best tip is to use the "Value" photoboard, it's cheaper, works better (in this case anyway or at least the same) and you can cut it with a stanley knife - I was having major dramas cutting the other stuff....

I tried the fatter tracks but still big problems, I'm on a 10:1 ratio of failed boards to "good" pcbs (which even then I have to fix some broken tracks). any suggestions would be very much appreciated....

hehe, I've seen those around for years. There are still a couple of clubs in London with them in the DJ box, Turnmills has one, but not the fancy one with the faders, just 8 or 16 touch sensors (can't remember which) I've never trusted anything about them, and you make a good point with touch panels and mains voltage. I knew someone who lost a finger because they dropped a cigarette behind a lighting desk, reached in to grab it and it was live. Months in hospital with 3 fingers attached to his stomach via skin grafts, then they amputated one. lighting desks and cowboy electricians don't mix...

I bought a small UV lightbox off ebay a while ago and last night was the 1st time I got a chance to fire it up and test it. Keeping in mind I've never used the UV PCB method, can someone please give me some advice. It's one of these http://rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/rswww/searchBrowseAction.do?D=uv%20pcb&Nr=AND%28avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN%29&Ntk=I18NAll&Nty=1&Ntt=uv%20pcb&Dx=mode%20matchpartial&Ntx=mode%20matchpartial&N=0&name=SiteStandard&forwardingPage=line&R=0555279&callingPage=/jsp/search/search.jsp&BV_SessionID=@@@@0984123078.1174819839@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccaddkhijjihkcefeceeldgondhgf.0&cacheID=uknetscape from RS / Maplin / Mega with 2 x 8 watt tubes. The artwork transfers fine in some places on the PCB, but towards the edges the tracks thin and disapear. I checked the location of the tubes and it seems like the artwork directly over the tube is the best and the stuff at the middle edge between the 2 tubes suffers (PCB is 1/3 of the width of the exposure area). So I put this down to an underexposure issue, but: Mega recommend a 3:30 exposure time. I've tried everything from 2:30 - 5 mins at 30 sec intervals. I got the best result at 3:30, but the 1st time I tried it at 3:30 it was rubbish. My guess at the moment is that the tubes are past their useful life - what say you, the good people of uCapps? I'm using the Seno applicators to develop & strip - any tips using those would be great too! Is it me or is it possible to rub off the exposed photoresist with the developer applicator? Or is this an idication of under/overexposure? I've noticed that the manual says diffusion occurs at the edges of the artwork, so I've fattened up all my tracks, esp at the edges and I'll do another batch today to see what gives...

Euphonix desks are the bomb! correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't current touchscreen technology limit you to 1 action at a time (i.e. 1 finger on the screen at once)? That's what's put me off, I need to be able to be doing several things at once, so it would seem hardward is still the way fwd...

oh well, on the bonus side they might start doing a few bits and pieces with the logo on it that might come in handy for the SIDers

seems the brand was bought by a US music firm... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4145965.stm

Veteran technology firm Commodore has launched a new generation of high-end gaming computers at the Cebit trade fair in Germany. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6454113.stm

it's all good, all you need to do is bounce and mixdown somewhere big - block book a few days - week and do an album at once...

sure can!

The Sonalkis plugs are the bomb! I haven't heard a digital Neve yet either, but I hear good things from friends...

You can never have enough outs!! I'm running 70 - 100 channels (sometimes more) on a large percentage of the tracks I'm doing when I mix down... don't! that kills me too!! The chain: Protools -> Euphonix Desk -> Manley -> IPOD!!! can anyone see the odd one out??

arrrghhhh!!! how dare you take the name of the Ring Modulator in vain!! You are lucky I don't issue a fatwar or smite you or something... if you don't get what a ring modulator is good for then put it on EVERYTHING till you work out what it's the "killer tool at the right time" for.... because let's face it - the only way you are gonna work out what a Ring Modulator is good for, for you is to experiment!

ppl are more than friendly round here... it's weird, maybe I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that uCapps has collected a lot of very cool and nice people - which is very strange in and of itself, as let's face it most ppl you meet are basically selfish twats. And on the internet it's life accelerated and magnified; people love to flame and act out their frustrations in an anonymous environment. btw: kris, last posts have been way more readable; is stryds suggestion working?

Rodents

yay, glad to hear it! my pleasure...

lol, how did I miss this thread up till now.... I'm definately a fan of the Natsume Sisters!