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  2. Optrex display problems MBSEQ V4

    in Testing/Troubleshooting

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    Soooooooooo... one of my expensive pretty optrex display seems to died. More specifically the backlight seems dead. It is on my MB-SEQ V4, so I switched the two displays around and it isn't the core. Has anyone had problems with these dieing? Are there common causes? I don't want to spend another $40 to have another one die too. I also just noticed that the other display's backlight is dimmer on the left half of the display...

    I'm going to sit down and test the 5v pins on the LCD jumpers on the core32 later, but maybe someone has thoughts or knowledge about why this would happen... other than the displays simply failing of there own accord...

    Cheers,

    Alex

    Hi, if you managed to short the backlight to ground, that would definitely do some damage. Is it something which happened while you were working on it? Or was it of its own accord?

  3. Noobie - Want to build SEQ v4

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    If Wilba or Smash are asked nicely, it should be possible to obtain one, I guess :-)

    I should have everything in hand to do this right within the next few weeks, then I will begin working my way through the list.

    I'll do my best to answer all the questions about specifics with the "it's ready" messages I send out at that time.

    Best regards

    Tim

  4. Recording Equipment

    in Miscellaneous

    Posted

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    I have the exact desk :). But drummer as well, so I sub mix through a Mackie 3204 (4 sub groups) and the 8 busses on the Soundcraft go to an RME FF800 (there's two extra ADCs when you wanna get real' freaky). Very happy with the results!

    * Much easier to set up foldback/monitor channels on an analog desk. *

  5. Dtronics is doing some pretty cool stuff

    in Miscellaneous

    Posted

    Not the same thing. PG-200 is a non-MIDI device used to program the Roland JX-3P, MKS-30, and GR-700. There have been murmurings around this community of a desire to clone it for a while, but not much ever came of it. It's been discontinued for about 25 years, and old used units fetch about $400.

    Right, thanks for that :)

  7. A commercial SID synth that look damn familiar (seen on MESSE)

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted · Edited by latigid on

    http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/04/07/musikmesse-2011-news-another-fine-messe/

    First up, for those who believe that the authentic 8-bit sound of “Chuckie Egg†will never be bettered, the ASId 64 is a new synthesizer using as its sound source recovered chips from Commodore 64s (sic). Due to the understandably limited availability of the components, the model will initially be restricted to 100 units, although Mode Machines are also talking to analogue grave-robbers Technology Transplant with a view to cloning the original circuitry. And for Mode Machines’ next trick, the consciousness-altering LSD (Little Sound Device) offers 3-oscillator digital synthesis from a box little bigger than a cigarette packet that features 4 rotary knobs and,er, that’s it. It delivers either monophonic sound or can be chained for your polyphonic pleasure.

    Have also emailed Matrix:

    Hello Matrix

    Not sure if you are aware of this, but the company "Mode Machines" has just demo'd a synth at MESSE which blatantly rips of the MIDIBox MB-6582 SID synth. The unit is also listed for sale on their website:

    http://www.touched-by-sound.com/de/Keyboards-34779-Mode_Machines_aSID64.html

    It is the ASID-SIXTY FOUR and much of the discussion can be found at:

    I hope you would agree that plagiarism of this nature is wholly unacceptable, even moreso as the project is a community-based open-sourced one.

    Any posts on your blog drawing attention to this issue would be appreciated.

    Thanks

    Andy (latigid on)

    Edit:

    http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2011/04/mode-machines-acid-64-in-violation-of.html

  10. Only 4/4 or more?

    in MIDIbox SEQ

    Posted

    I believe you can set the pattern length from any number of steps up to 256 (SEQ V4).

    So if you set it to a multiple of three, 3/4 or 6/8; 5 for 5/4 or 10/4 etc.

    It's possible to have different lengths per track, so cool rhythms are available.

    Can haz PCB naow? :wink:

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