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I'm currently trying to decide which Feedback knobs to buy for my MBSid & MB-6582 to be.
Bendables have great UK prices on ebay,
you can get 50 of these for only £8.49 + shipping :o
I'm thinking either red on black for the mb-6582, or plain black,
or their moog knobs are cheap as chips also, and come in 2 different diameters:
only £3.25 for 5!
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Circuit Electronics Circuit Bending has awesome prices in the UK also,
they say you will never pay over £1.50 for UK shipping, and £2.25 worldwide
- No matter what the quantity!
10 of these for just £2.79 + shipping.
7 Of these for £2.25 + shipping, and theyre soft touch.
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Hi Garry,
I can cut 1-offs too, but the panel above is a fair bit of work, which is why i want a (allbeit small) MOQ at the stated price.
I can, and do, cut 1-offs all the time.
Just make sure not to accept any returns from him,
with a username like that, god knows what could happen.....
;)
(and yes, i did go all to the trouble of downloading that episode and converting it!)
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(pics will come later)
POIDH! :P
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If you are in a hurry for windows the mb-6582 are still on stock and for the mb-seq please ask Narwhal.
I can has? :D
I wouldnt mind both actually, i can use the mb-seq one for my 2x40 MBSid Display.
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The images are in this quote of the finished box - HOWEVER.
THeres a possibly malicious script, so be careful.
I just got back from a short vacation yesterday afternoon. My new PIC arrived in the mail! After many long hours of testing and debugging I got the news I was hoping for....
Image removed due to possibly malicious content. Download at your own risk, it contains a strange script. - stryd_one
http://www.alphazone1.com/midibox/midibox-complete1.jpg
yes, my PIC works and my LCD is working :D
I'm now going to use some test programs to test my knobs and buttons and stuff. Then I can hopefully get the full midibox64 application going. While I was installing the PIC and cleaning up some other things I added bypass caps to my boards...
Here's a pic of what the box looks like now on the inside. I moved things around from the way I had it set up before to try to decrease the changes of any noise or interference (I really tried to get everything away from that transformer too).
Image removed due to possibly malicious content. Download at your own risk, it contains a strange script. - stryd_one
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hi
still available some encoder set?
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Surely one user has a few to many.
If you dont want a huge bunch it would be worth putting a wanted thread up in the fleamarket.
I think i might do the same for when i start builting the mb-6852.
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Knobs, Knobs where are you ???
You love the knobs! ;)
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Hello everybody,
Is anyone here using recent modules from smashTV????
I want to know how the connections between the CORE_R4D and SID_R3A modules are made...can you help me??
Yep.
I was a bit worried too because of PWM and MD being labeled as CLK and SC on the sid module,
but i just assumed they were and connected it up regardless.
The first cable i used caused garbage on the lcd but i got sid playback!
I used a better cable and then everything worked perfect.
So essentially this is how to connect it:
CORE SID
J10 J2
---- ----
MD ----> SC
SO ----> SO
MU ----> MU
RC ----> RC
CLK ----> CLK
SC ---> (not connected)
Vd ----> (not connected)
Vs ----> (not connected)
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Dont be affraid, Even if you damage the pads (which sucks) you can always conenct a piece of wire or something. Just cut one pin at a time. Youll be fine. Once you break it and fix it again, youll be that much better! I can talk as I have pulled more than one pad in my day...
If i do damage the pads i just realised that theres pads on both sides, so i could always solder standard resistors on the opposite side of the board.
And nebula thanks a lot for the walkthrough, ill try it later.
And thanks for the optrex display too! ;) Its working perfect and I really like it!
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it would be hard to get htat part off in one piece. Just get brute force on it and cut the black part off with wirecuttersthen you can heat up each whole and pull the pins out one at a time with plyers. You can always get another piece or even some regualr resistors to replace that.
Right?
Right on!
The only thing i'd be afraid of is damaging the pads but i guess i'll just have to be careful.
Thanks for the reply!
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Okay, so today i managed to upload the MBSid firmware to the CORE Module.
A while back i completed the DINx4 module, but i soldered the very last resistor network back to front!
As you can see marked in the pic it was RP8: (i lost my n95 recently so no real pic :()
D'OH!
My desoldering skills suck so i couldnt manage to remove it i'm afraid. (cannot remember if i tried with braid however)
My question is,
will removing IC4 and leaving J6 open, be adequate enough for the other 3 DINs to be functional and unaffected?
Any help would be greatly apprecaited. Thanks.
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Is an Elco an electrolytic capacitor?
It took me ages to figure that out, if its even right that is!
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Okay, so i tried uploading the setup_8580 hex file to core using the same port for IN and OUT - Port 1.
It failed, it never received the upload request.
So then i switched the cable going from CORE OUT <-> Interface IN, to Port 2,
so that it had its own dedicated port, and low and behold...
It Worked! :D
I was shocked since the MPU-401 failed, to do anything.
I wonder if people have more success using 2 seperate ports like i have. ???
I am absolutely delighted to get this far,
thanks to everyone involved!
Now on to make that sid module!
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Silly me! I had the release Ports button clicked, as you can tell from the broken lines in the pic! :P
D'OH!
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I just discovered this post on Matrixsynth about a possible method for repairing dodgy 80017a boards. Essentially you soak it in acetone (nail polish remover) until the epoxy comes off. That's it :o
You gotta love that guy's LED ladder filter!
Moog should totally have used LED's instead, to give it that "warm" look!
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Also I had a pre-sleep dream the other day about connect some sort of speakjet module to the d-sub. Would that be possible or am I just dreaming?
If you have enough juice left to power a core, and speak jet module, and enough space to mount them some way into the mb-6582 then id say its possible.
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Hi guys.
This is how my audio interface's midi ports register in the Midi Device router of MIOS Studio:
The device has 2 midi I/Os, 2 x IN, 2 x OUT.
As you can see i cannot select an IN or OUT port individually, just the group they belong too.
Because of this (i believe), the core has even failed recieving LCD messages.
I did get the LCD test to work with the MPU-401 port of my older computer,
(which i now must get back from a friend!), but i didnt manage to upload the Sid V2 firmware.
I have double checked my cabling, and i have tried using a seperate group for midi IN and midi OUT, as well as using the same group for each.
Shall i add the Emu 1616 to the blacklist?
Regards,
Adrian.
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Hey man, if you could get a video recorded of the midibox session it would be great!
I know i know, (always with the videos!)
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The more people on here making CNC panels the better imo!
I mean theres no need to feel guilty if others are planning on making them in the future,
for instance Doug is living in the U.S and you're living in the UK.
That can help with shipping cost and times for people living in Europe.
it would just be like having the choice of buying from Smash TV or Mike's Midi Shop.
I cannot see how something this beneficial to the community could be scorned at. ;)
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Unfortunately I can't get mios studio to work on my xp box now, naturally. Has anyone figured out a vista interface? So now I can't do the interconnection test or test-tone program...
Have you the latest version of Java installed?
Just a simple thing that could be overlooked.
Mios Studio should run on vista also,
the only problem i could see there is maybe an unsupported midi driver or something. You may have no problems at all.
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Btw theres a nice shortened down version of that magazine with just the relevant Rob Hubbard article here:
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I was considering doing a java app to convert patches,
something that would recognise a lead, or bass melody, or drums for example, based on the range of notes that same patch was played for each note.
A class that could be imported into the existing Midibox V2 Java Editor, under a different tab.
It might be a bit difficult doing all that with hexadecimal code though.
On the gui side, buttons marked Lead 1, Lead 2, etc would pop up,
as it read the sid file, and it would be cool to be able to play back that selected patch with the sidplay engine, if that was possible, (or just sent it to MbSid via midi).
You could then click an import button which would import the selected patch, into the rest of the V2 Editor,
with all knobs in the relevant positions, so you could save the patch.
All dreams for now only!
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semen....i mean seamen
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