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Hi, got the boards today. Thank you for your work and efforts! regards, Mike

Hi, inspired by a post (in german) in the sequencer.de forum i've already planned to try something like this - when i have some spare-time. Actually planned is the use of signals from LFOs or other modular-CVs, but audio-triggers should be possible to. I do not plan to use a AIN module at all, but a little trigger-conditioner connected to a free DIN pin or J5. regards, Mike

Got my boards today. Thank you!!! Regards, Mike

Hi, i've also done a fitting lcd-window wich fits perfectly in the front-panel. Both made by Schaeffer. Cheers, Mike lcd-window mb6582.zip lcd-window mb6582.zip

Hey Sasha, very nice (and fast) build! Cheers, Mike

No, nothing else missed. Perhaps the one thing I missed, too: Space for stickers on the front to name the channels. It can be confusing with many connected slaves.

Nice design! But note, that with my code you'll need seperate (global) play- and pause-buttons (or need to modify the code).

Ah, i found it! Checking the J3 and J23, both SIDs work as expected. It was the audio-jack! The jack had no good connection to the pcb. Perhaps this is because i had first soldered other jacks and realized too late that these did not fit the back-panel. The unsoldering of these jack may have weaken the pcb-traces at this jack. I have bridged that with a short piece of wire from J23 to J22 and it works again. Many thanks to all of you who helped with your hints and ideas! Mike

:o Aaargh! Stop that! ::) That one PIC had problems from the beginning. No short. I stuffed another PIC in there, uploaded all the stuff and it worked like a charm. I changed the two PICs from core 1 and 2 yesterday, changed the ids, uploaded the app... but nothing changed, even both SIDs on the first core are working. I will check further this evening. Mike

Hey Stryd, i only do one thing at a time, i've put the faulty PIC aside to check it again later. So the only problem left is the one missing channel. I'm going to investigate (and hopefully fix) this further this evening. Tomorrow is the first public presentation of this little beast. Mike

Hi, i've tried it with the PIC again and again. But after uploading the sid-app its continuing with upload-requests. Anyway, i have a spare PIC now which runs fine. Someday i will try to reburn the PIC with the bootloader and investigate if it will work afterwards. But now i have a new problem: I'm getting no output from the second SID on core 2 anymore. I've swapped the SIDs and they are fine, same with the 74HC595. It had worked before, but the last two days i've only checked it mono and didn't notice that. Thank you again for all your help! Mike

Hi, Step 1: done - nothing changed Step 2: done - nothing changed Step 3: done - all fine Step 4: done - SUCCESS! Running fine! Thank you so much Wilba! Mike

I've reflown the solder-joints which connection the first PIC with the SIDs but no success. The strange thing with this proble is, that it does not happen all the time. Sometimes i power up the box and it works fine. But i have another issue where i dont know if its normal for the Midibox-sid or not (i think not): A scattering bassline. This happens more or less on all cores. With internal and external clock. Is this normal? I think slight differences in the length of notes might be normal for analog equipement, but so much? Mike

Ah, thank you Luke! I thought that could be an error, too. Mike

Hi, thank you for your response, here are some samples: Core 1: No Sequence running! Core 2: Same Bassline running fine Core 1: Drum-engine running with error All samples recorded contain only the left channel but the error is on both SIDs connected to the first core. Can't reproduce the garbled lead-sound at the moment. I can't do a video, sorry. But it is not so spectacular with the other bug, just all leds in the row and column of the sequences running are lighting up continously. Mike