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  1. 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

  4. 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:

  20. Audio signal flow: Synth/FX/Filter chain management

    in Miscellaneous

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    I made a DIY patchbay with cables soldered directly to sockets and plugged into my synths. I then soldered cables to the switching (normalling) contacts on the sockets and plugged those into my mixer.

    This way I have an uninterrupted signal going into the mixer, but if I want to "insert" an effect it is easily accessible and breaks the normalled connection. The returns go into more sockets on the patchbay.

    But what about a stereo instrument (Voyager, Andromeda) going into a mono effect?

    To accomplish this I added an extra DPDT switch, which provides a stereo signal on one throw and a passively mixed (2x 10k resistors) on the other. You do get 4 dB attenuation, but this can be compensated for on the effect or the instrument's master volume.

  22. sammich sid - backlight flickering

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted

    I'm pretty sure man. The ones Wilba linked all look like they could fit a transformer inside. Your one doesn't. Seriously, pick it up, if it feels like nothing much more than a piece of plastic it's almost certainly a switching supply. A linear (transformer-based) supply will have some weight to it.

    Another clue is multi-voltage. Switching supplies can often use a wide input voltage (100-240 VAC) whereas linear usually will need a jumper/switch changed if this is even possible.

    One more clue is price. Transformers are usually more expensive than S/PSUs. I'm sure it's worth it for your little Sammich.

    :)

  23. sammich sid - backlight flickering

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted

    hey,

    thank you for the numerous replies!

    i bought the following psu from conrad electronics http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/518313/

    500 mA

    12 V/DC

    regulated

    (cant read anything about switchmode or schaltnetztei in the manual so i would say its no switchmode psu)

    i connected it but the display still behaves the same way.. the flickering is totally random.. now mostly off :(

    is there anything else i can check?

    thanks

    rbv2

    No, that still looks like a switchmode one to me. You can tell because a transformer-based design will be heavy and square :ahappy: unless they use a toroid, in which case it will be heavy, flat and round. Keep searching would be my advice. Hopefully you can return some of these!

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