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m00dawg

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  1. On issue I have with the Big option is that you end up being limited in terms of how to put such a board in various form factors since you'd want to leverage that touchscreen I'm sure and that could dictate how you would approach building something in a limiting way. Can the touchscreen be separated by any means? Because that would be pretty nifty.
  2. Ah yeah good point on the jacks - I do the same thing. All panel mount connectors should be screwable to the panel - it makes things so much easier! Good point though - if you're mounting it behind the jack board, you might be able to keep them together with glue or zip-ties. Looks like you have space to put a few screws in. For situations where it gets moved around a lot (like for live shows), the screws would be better peace of mind I suspect. Though, yeah since you can mount it behind the jacks, it's probably more optional.
  3. Looks very cool! My only suggestion would be mounting holes perhaps?
  4. I seem to recall there was a way to do Thru on the FM, though I haven't yet had the need to use it. I think you may have to make a modification to MIDI Out for it to work though? It's been a long while so I don't remember readily. One option you have is to build something that includes a MIDI router (e.g. MBSEQ, MIDIO128, MBNG) and have it handle your MIDI interfaces and routing. Not quite what you're after, but might be something to consider if you can't get Thru working on MBFM directly.
  5. I've encountered a bit of a problem I haven't figured out how to solve when scouring the docs. Basically I have a song where I use a Multi patch and set things up so that MIDI channel 1 is the bass (left SID) and channel 2 is an arp (right SID). Doing this requires I setup an Ensemble patch. No problem there. The problem comes when I need to switch the ensembles, say, during a live show. I usually make patch changes in my DAW and want to eventually replace that with a MIDIO128. In either case, I can't find a CC or SysEx to actually change the ensemble. I seem to recall the SID panel for CTRLR can do it, so it seems like there is a SysEx solution, though it wasn't clear to me when reading the SysEx implementation. Any ideas?
  6. It looks quite pretty! I'm personally not a fan of blue LEDs for interfaces and, in fact, there have been a few epic discussions on these forums about them. Both in terms of practicality and in terms of posing an increased risk for long term vision problems. Not trying to sway anyone one way or another. I just personally stick to red, orange, or green for most things that are at least in direct line of sight.
  7. Aha ok that's what I thought. Mounting on top would be pretty easy, but I'm not sure how to flush mount (without metal supports as you mention). Anything is surely better than simply zip-tieing the Sammiches to a rack shelf, which is what I'm going now :smile: I think for our live rack, going for a full aluminum panel would be the most hardy since it does get moved around often. But that also makes me (very mildly) concerned about through hole components getting messed with. But I suppose that's going to happen no matter how I mount the thing in a rack (though mounting the base boards flat might be better than vertically).
  8. That is what I was leaning towards. I can fit up to 3 things in 3U mounted face-up which isn't bad. Can you elaborate on how you might go about merging the panels? That seems like an excellent idea, but not sure exactly how to do that? A new panel isn't terrible necessarily - about $150 from FPE I suspect basing it off estimates from the 3U rackmount SID I still want to make (one day). Before I can make it, though, I have to decide what the 3rd synth/module would be is the only catch. It would either be a MI Shruthi or a panel for my MIDIO128 I suspect.
  9. Yep, the headers are all there so just need to design the boards and panel for it. The more I think about it more mounting the Sammich face up in the rack (basically bolting it to the panel mostly as-is) could be interesting. I can fit both the SID and FM in 3U space and have some leftover room for other things (like an interface to an MIDIO128 I'm working on). But then I have to get a 3U panel cut, which isn't cheap. Plus there's the need to re-route power, MIDI and audio jacks to a supporting board for that to work well. I can't decide on which option is better at this point.
  10. Curious before I go looking too far into this myself, but has anyone tried stuffing the sammichSID and sammichFM in a rack? Originally, I was going to make a 1U striped down interface with just an LCD and maybe a knob or buttons. But after seeing some of the rackmount mods for the Mutable Instruments gear, it seems like they Sammich stuff can be panel mounted in similar fashion. Has anyone attempted such things with the Sammiches?
  11. I thought he was referring to all the stuff in Milky's setup (presumably many of it being controlled via the LED rings)?
  12. :shocked: WHOA! Impressive would be an understatement. Well, sweet good to know it'll fit!
  13. Ah well, if I did that, I would likely just mount the panel directly to the rack without an enclosure. So basically the board would just hang off the panel and the panel would mount directly to the rack. Seems to make things like clearance so much easier and I haven't found 2U+ enclosures I have liked that are also reasonably priced here in the US. That plus I have about 2U of space where I can mount something like this to the mixer rails of our rack and, in doing so, wouldn't be able to use a normal enclosure anyway. I guess, what I should have asked was has anyone mounted this thing on a rack before? Seems like it is possible just curious if someone has gloriously paved the way already :smile:
  14. Wiki page lists the board as slightly less than 2U. I assume it wouldn't require anything fancy to modify your frontpanel design to make it rackmount?
  15. Thanks Pete! That does help a bit, yep! I'll need to wrap those functions around capturing the SysEx or CC sent from MIDI to invoke those (and, I suppose, filter those events out so they don't get forwarded back out).
  16. Can someone point in a direction for where I need to be looking in the MIDIO128 code to try and implement that feature? I poked around in seq.c and midio_sysex.c but I didn't get especially far. I suspect I may be needing to do something to/with SEQ_PlayStopButton() or scs_config.c, buttonHook()? My plan was to have MIDIO128 interpret MIDI transport commands (Play, Stop, FFwd, Rew) so I can remotely control it using using transport controls on my MIDI keyboard or a custom control surface. As a sort of aside, is there enough headroom to backport some CV functions to MIDIO128, say, if I toss out things I don't need? I'm really only using the MIDI playback and routing functions of MIDIO128. If it could handle some basic CV (say just following MIDI CCs) I could save on space and costs by needing only one CORE.
  17. Adding WiFi support might not be a bad option, but replacing wired Ethernet altogether would not be my preference. WiFi has higher latency and lower reliability such that some applications would benefit from a wired connection in my opinion. That said, given RTP-MIDI is now a thing, it seems like there may be multiple connection options in the next CORE is my guess.
  18. Wow that's quite impressive! Nice work!
  19. Nice finally! Good stuff! Sounds really rich - must be the voices because my sammichFM doesn't normally sound like that. Nice job!
  20. Haha TK, awesome! Total tangent but another idea for this - is it possible to make a USB to RTP bridge using KissBox stuffs? Being able to use USB powered devices /without/ needing a full blown computer would be great for our live performances. MIDIO128 is my plan for largely removing the DAW, but means I have to use DIN MIDI devices. I can deal, but it limits some control surfaces and things. I know the next gen CORE won't have USB host mode, but if another device did that could talk to CORE, that'd be awesome!
  21. My $0.02 there is that, for my MIDIO128 needs, more MIDI ports = mo betta ;) Not having to ever use MIDI Thru just makes things easier.
  22. Yeah I saw that too, but I wasn't sure practically what that means in terms of MidiBox. Will, say, MIDIO128 compensate when playing back MIDI data and forwarding it on? If so, that's awesome! The only other issue is live playing, where those tricks wouldn't be available (according to the wiki page)? I mean, live playing something is already imperfectly human so minor latency isn't a huge deal necessarily. Still curious how that compares to DIN MIDI (or USB). I would expect it to be very good if it didn't share a network with anything else and decent switching hardware was used.
  23. Aha! Yes now we're on the same page! Sorry didn't mean to steer the boat the wrong way :smile: Definitely referring to some sort of add-on. Curious how latency would compare in a live setting if one was just using a dedicated network for everything.
  24. Haha maybe it's me missing the boat, but isn't the point of the add-on card we're talking about to offload all the heavy lifting from MIOS? Seemed like TK's last response confirmed SEQ4 will work with the add-on? I guess if the conversation has shifted away from using a 3rd party card that might be different but from TK's explanation of it, at least on LPC_CORE it will use the SPI (SD Card) interface?
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