Doug Wellington

Seems to me the biggest thing would be connecting a 960-like user interface to the current MB-SEQ or MB-808 firmware with the AOUT for output. Then we could customize the way the software reacts to that interface... There are a lot of sequencers to emulate. Have you also checked out the Milton http://www.buzzclick-music.com/about_milton.html or the Klee http://electro-music.com/forum/forum-155.html? Doug

It IS huge. :) If you want to get an idea of the sound, check out the band King's X. Doug Pinnick was a big influence on me. I find it really sad that a lot of the "Christian" listeners to King's X stopped supporting them after Doug "came out". (Is that what Jesus would have done?) And of course check out Cheap Trick - if it weren't for Tom Petersson, there probably wouldn't be a 12 string bass... Tuning is actually not too bad - Hamer did a nice job on the neck, so it's quite stable... Doug

I bought the FPD DXF export filter some time ago. If you need one or two designs exported, please PM me...

The web page for the MB-808 itself is http://www.eight-oh-eight.org and you can see some of my own notes about it at http://www.analognotes.com/mb808 There aren't any kits available right now, but we will probably make another run of boards later this year. In the mean time, I am finishing the panels and cases, and hope to finish the design of the MB-9090 and MBmatrixSEQ soon.

I can't seem to get to the SwinSID web page - anybody else having the same problem? Is there another website with the info? Thanks...

Very cool! Some day if I have time, I will build one of those... When I got back into music a couple years ago after a long break, the first thing I built was a Blacet Miniwave. Then I immediately started building MOTM modules. (Jumped right to the hard stuff...) ;D I had heard of MIDIbox, but didn't really dive in until I got an MB-808 kit... Oh yeah, if you're interested in that kind of thing, check out the x0xb0x and the Introspectiv 9090...

P.S. Are you interested in modular analog stuff? There are a bunch of board/kit makers out there... Check out Elby, Ken Stone and Ray Wilson for some fun things, and if you're at all interested in building your own modular from inexpensive kits, definitely check out Blacet Research! You can find links to all of them at my web page... Doug http://www.analognotes.com

Just because it's non-commercial doesn't mean it's cheap...! I've been able to buy a lot of stuff on ebay that costs less than I could ever make it for... Now, if you're into DIY regardless of cost, check out http://www.prodigy-pro.com/forum/ for some very interesting projects. Are you signed up for the SDIY email list? Do you read http://www.electro-music.com/forum/ ? EDIT: oh yeah, how about http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/ ?

Have you been touched by his noodly appendage? Doug ("Pasta Lover" on the FSM Discussion forum)

After I'm divorced and it doesn't take the role of "wedding ring" any more... ;D

Heehee, don't get me started! ;D I think the problem is that individuals wait around for someone else to tell them what to do, what is cool, etc, etc. (Especially here in The States, where people spend money they don't have, on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.) Everything we need to be happy is right before our very eyes, yet we choose to ignore it, looking for something external that will take our minds off of our miserable existences. Many know the path, few are willing to walk it. Wake up people! This has been a test of the emergency enlightenment system. In case of true enlightenment, you will give up material possessions and be happy where you are with whatever you have in the moment. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...

Nice! I saw Steve playing in a corner at NAMM last year. Almost nobody noticed the poor guy. :( I was happy though - I basically got a solo concert to myself for about 20 minutes... 8) I don't have a six stringer yet - some day I still hope to get a Pedulla Hexabuzz - in the mean time I'm "suffering" with a Yamaha TRB-5 and a Fender Jazz fretless... ;D My 12 string is the old Hamer short scale bass (not the Chaparral) - amazing how hard it was to find a picture online, but try this one: I have that same model, but mine's black. One of these days I'll get a picture of mine up on the 'net... Doug

Me too!!!

Yeah... :o 8) I had a chance to see Victor Wooten close up when he gave a couple seminars at a local store. He even went down to a local jazz spot and sat in one night. Awesome stuff - I almost felt like throwing my basses away after that... :D Funny story - I won't tell the whole thing, but when I got married last time my wife got a ring and I got a 12 string bass..!

There's a back panel?? ??? :o Heehee, ok, just kidding... Yes, this is for both the top and rear panels... ;D Doug

There are enough requests on the wiki that I'm going to go ahead and get quotes for the panels. I hope to have a price and schedule by the end of the month... Doug

I thought that was "religion..." ;)

There are lots of options! ;D I have the Spartan 3E board: http://fpga.synth.net/evalboards/spartan3e.shtml and the Blackfin STAMP: http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0%2C2877%2CBF537%25252DSTAMP%2C00.html The Spartan is about the same cost as the Altera - $150. FPGA boards are very very flexible, but that's also their weakness - you have to implement everything yourself. The STAMP board doesn't provide the AD/DA, but it's a lot easier to write code for it... Doug

There is no CPU... The guys on the Qix list are using the ColdFire M5251C3 evaluation board for control via SPI... (Of course, the only price I've seen on the ColdFire eval board is over $900, so there goes your cheap development platform...) :o ::) Doug All the more reason to stick with the Blackfin! ;D

Holy Crap!!! I LOVED that band!!! Stanley is part of the reason I became a bass player...

;D OK, I started to add some links to learning material on my site - check out the Beginner's Guide to DSP at Analog Devices, and then check out (free!) The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing. There are LOTS of resources on the net for audio algorithms. For instance (especially if you're a Mac user), check out http://www.sonicbirth.com, plus all the cool stuff they're doing at places like Princeton University - http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software. Check out the Synthesis Toolkit project (from McGill, Princeton and Stanford Universities) for C and C++ code - I'm planning to use some of that with the Blackfin and/or SHARC chips... Doug http://www.analognotes.com/digitalnotes

Cool, glad you like it. I've added more stuff since my last post and I still have a lot more to add... That looks interesting, especially the Anadigm stuff. (And their corporate HQ is only about an hour and a half away from here!) I'll have to make time to work with some of those tools... Doug http://www.analognotes.com/digitalnotes

OK, I threw together some stuff on one of my web pages. Check out: http://www.analognotes.com/digitalnotes I'll add more as I get a chance. Let me know if you have any suggestions... Doug

Check out http://www.qix.synth.net for a Chameleon replacement that uses the Motorola 56k DSP. Oh wait, it's now called the "Freescale Symphony audio processor"... (And the old 68k chip is now called "ColdFire" - woooo...!) Marketing... Gotta love it! ::) While the 56k family has certainly been around for a long time, I'm disappointed in the Symphony SoundBite development board because of the limited RAM (can't build long delays or reverbs), so I'm sticking with the Blackfin for the moment. The Blackfin is quite interesting, especially the STAMP board - for $220 you get a complete development kit running Linux with all the usual GNU tools and 64MB of RAM - enough for some serious fun! http://blackfin.uclinux.org I also really like that it's got ethernet and a web server - I use "curl" to send control messages to it over the net. 8) It's also worth checking out the C2000 and DaVinci stuff from TI... http://www.ti.com/dsp Doug

When we get closer to placing the order, I will shop the design around to my usual vendors, including the place they were originally done. I do NOT plan to have them do any screening, and based upon their deburring work, I don't think I'd let them do the anodize either. If they do get my business, I'll want to do the inspection and deburring myself before I send the panels to be anodized... As for the silkscreen, two colors are easy to do, and I might even be willing to entertain the idea of letting each of you choose which two colors you want from the colors that I have... ;D Doug