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  1. So I've been in a super chippy tune mood lately and I ran across an AMAZEing tune from a Finnish composer guy who goes by the name "Tempest". Check it out: AAhhggghhhh...it's SO funky and amazing! This guy won some chiptune competition with this one back in 2000. Well, it seemed that RnB/HipHop producer Timbaland thought it was pretty amazing too. Enough that he completely ripped the song off for a track he did for Nelly Furtado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlz4fRzxBsQ It's the EXACT same song. There was a huge copyright case and BS that Tempest refuses to even talk about with anyone: http://www.fairlight.fi/tempest/acidjazzed_evening/ I mean, it seems to me that maybe he didn't even really try to make any kind of monetary settlement...I don't know it just seems that way to me for some reason. Honestly, I'm curious if people from other countries in Europe, it seems like they're not into the whole suing the hell out of anyone for any reason thing. I'd put my money that Tempest just said, "Whatever dude, don't do it again." and left it at that.
  2. Yea, I downloaded this super HVSC megapack of .sid files and was browsing through the hundreds of artists they have documented over the years. Finding Thorsten in there was...well I wasn't expecting it, heh. It makes sense, of course. These are some of his tracks from 1990, it says. Anyways, I was like, "HEY, I know that guy!" It was a kind of treat, I guess. Just thought I'd share. :)
  3. OK so I figured out what I was doing wrong. Somewhere along the way I was convinced (for what reason, I can't remember) that the diodes were connected to the core with wires, so I mounted the diodes on a seperate piece of perfboard and ran the wires there. When I was looking for some pictures to show me something about the CAN bus I ran across some pics of Wisefire mounting caps directly to the bottom of the pcb. This being my first project and all, I didn't even realize I could do that. I figured that mounting it on bottom would mess things up for some reason. Anyways, mounting the diodes directly to the bottom of the pcb fixed the problem. (It makes perfect sense now that I think about it.) I'm really sorry for wasting everyones time, however the suggestions helped me look in the right direction to figure out what I was doing wrong.
  4. Does anyone know where I could find some pictures that describe the process of connecting the CAN bus? I've spent at least 10 hours working on this problem and I haven't gone anywhere with it. It's really frustrating, like I was on the verge of frying the whole damn thing with my laser eyeballs. Good thing I got up and left before it got that far. But seriously, this whole process is the last wall between me and and a fully functioning 4xSID/4xchannel MBSID and I just can't wrap my head around it apparently. It seems that only one other channel can be recognized; when three cores are connected like the schematic shows, only one other channel shows up on the menu (1*-*). But, say if I disconnect it all and reconnect, it sometimes picks up the other one (1-**). It's completely random and makes no sense. I'm thinking maybe I'm using the wrong kind of wire for the CAN bus line or something(what has anyone else used for a 3 or more core connection?). I'm using two ribbon cable wires with two ends soldered together(successfully got one slave working, now I'm working on two) for my CAN wire and connected the D3s together(which are all shorted to D2 with the diode, and the 1K resistor at the first core) and it gives me the issues mentioned above. I honestly don't know what that would look like or if I'm doing that already or not. If I could see a pic of what a properly done CAN bus looks like, then I'll know what I'm trying to shoot for here. (Visual learning tendencies and electronics don't mix!) Thanks, Karac
  5. No, but there's not another resistor at the end on the pdf schematic.
  6. I really can't figure out what the problem is. I've spent hours and hours troubleshooting and I'm stuck. This is how my literal connections are(I didn't include the J11...they're connected correctly). http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid/mbsid_v2_communication.pdf With this I get a 1-** on the menu. Then I try to extend it to the third core like this: I get a 1*** with "CAN bus error" when trying to select the other SIDs. So I suspect that maybe the third core is mucked up somehow, so I try this: With this I get a 1*-* on the menu. Are these connections correct? I've put 99% of my MBSID together, complete with control surface and everything. All that's left is to figure out how to get all four cores recognized and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong to save my life.
  7. So is a copper wire standard for the can bus to work or something? I'm using the same ribbon wire I've used to connect everything else for the can bus connection and I can't get it to recognize anything more than the second core. When I try to extend it, it gives me a Can bus error.
  8. I've got my first core, sid, and control panel working just fine. Now I'm trying to figure out the whole slave core thing. I've got my first slave PIC ID set to 01 and now I'm just trying to figure the hardware part. Due to me not knowing anything about electronics before I started this MBSID I have a hard time seeing what things should look like when looking at schematics. Particularly I can't figure out the CAN Bus part of this: http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid/mbsid_v2_communication.pdf I'm confused at what exactly I'm supposed to do with the diodes and the resistor. Are these separate parts from the core or do I use the ones on the core itself a certain way? Once again, due to my lack of experience I can't easily look at schematics and see what things should look like in my head just yet. In my noob attempt at this, I made the connections on the bottom of the circuit board, using the 1N4148 and one of the 1K resistors already on the board. Upon completing the connections with the diode, the MB wouldn't power on. So that was obviously wrong. Thanks, Karac
  9. OK so I got it working now. Bought a new DIN and CORE from Smash and set up everything with those. At first, even with the new boards, it was giving me the same problems. I was about to jump out of my 3rd story window, but tried redownloading the SID V2 files from the downloads page, thinking it HAD to be some quirky software problem, and reinstalled the 8580.hex file from the fresh new downloaded folder and it started working. I'm so confused. ??? Oh well, at least it's working now. Thanks everyone for helping out. Big ups to Smash for being so extremely supportive. I think I'll go lie down now...
  10. Man, no wonder it was giving me such a hard time. Has Thorsten said anything about plans to update the JSynth driver or anything?
  11. whoa, whoa, I think you're making things more complicated than they really are. ;) This should make it more simple, it's on the downloads page: http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_syxloader_18f.html It's a really easy to use sysex loader and the vintage presets from the presets folder can be sent to your bank, no problem. Just open up the vintage patch file through this loader program and send. I assumed maybe you were wanting more presets than than the vintage presets. Yea me too. If you're just wanting to load up those vintage patches the sysex loader is the easiest route.
  12. http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid/preset_patches_20060820.zip here ya go. However these won't work with v2 so you have to convert them. If you look in the "tools" folder in the "midibox_sid_v2_0_rc17", or similarly named, folder you'll find a v1_to_v2.pl file. You can use that script to convert these patches to v2 and upload. Outside of the vintage presets found in the preset folder, the link up above has the only other presets I've found around here. Good luck figuring out how to use that pearl script. I was going to figure it out soon as my order gets in from Smash(bless his awesome little heart) and fix my ridiculous DIN problem. Hope this helped.
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