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Does the original code compile ok? Can we see the code?

/me puts on his safety goggles :geek: Good luck with the build, and welcome to the forum :) The MB6582 is very well documented and it's a very rewarding build. You're gonna love it, i'm sure!

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Very, very nice :) The jsynthlib version was a bit 'weird' to work with here, so i look forward to play with this Ctrlr-based editor!! Now, i really hope that someone would do the same for MBSID. I would give it a try, but i'm positive that i wouldn't get very far :) not smrt enough!

The 'Union of cool ppl that uses their MBSID to gain true SID sound from their emulators... and goattracker' is very, very pleased to hear this :D I will inform all the members at our next meeting!

May be easier to look in the wiki for the PCB files. i'm pretty sure there were some pdf documents where you could check out the traces

Many of you might know me as the dude who builds stuff in cardboard boxes... well, i stepped up, and i am now manhandling plastic :D I was really sad that my MB6582 had to stand here uncovered, so i had to improvise a dustcover. I had some of this cheap plastic cloth lying around (sry, but i have no idea what the international term for this would be. Here in DK we call it 'presenning') I measured all sides of the box and made a simple template using paper and tape I used the template with a permanent filt tip pen to draw up the shape onto the plastic. When i cut it out, i made sure to leave enough plastic in the corners, so i could later clamp'em together. For the clamping i used an ordinary paper stapler ('heavier' staples would really have been nice). I was kinda liberal during the measuring because i was afraid to make it too small, so mine might seem a bit chubby :) it could easily have been a slimmer fit. I cut out a hole in the back to allow the cover to fit even if cables are attached All in all i'm very pleased with the result considering i spent about 20mins and $1.5 on it. And now i want to make covers for all my other boxes too :D It may not look that slick, but in the end i'm more interested in keeping my stuff safe. In the end, the important thing is that i left my former habit of using cardboard :P

Look here, in the very bottom http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=midibox_sid_faq&s[]=mbsid

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The LCD is still dim after you adjust the two trimpots?

If i'm not incorrect, then the STM32 is mainly used for the Midibox SEQv4

I'm guessing that you want to build the Midibox64? It takes pots, but it only needs a PIC-based core. What you do with the pots are completely up to you :) you can assign whatever to whichever pot using the lovely configuration software (look here, under 'configuration' http://www.ucapps.de/midibox64.html) On a sidenote, the box itself can be built just how you want it too. Let's say you needed 11 pots and 7 switches = no problem at all. Inhere, the sky is the limit ;)

To make it all go inside the keyboard will ofcourse take some room in there, but also on the front of the keyboard, if you plan to have pots/encoders, switches and stuff. I'm not familiar wit Tom Scarff, but his PIC hw/sw most likely is not compatible with Midibox platform, so you might end up yanking everything out, only to stuff inside something else (cooler as it may be, ofcourse, since we're now talking Midibox :)) If I were you: - I'd try to keep my lovely (rare?) Commodore keyboard as intact as possible. Since it lacks some fundamental features like velocity anyways, you'll quickly grow tired of it (imagine you suddenly wants to use it for VSTs/other synths also. An on/off piano won't lend a lot of expression or personal interpretation). - I'd love a new keyboard, with all the modern features such a beast will provide. But my preferences might be far from yours :) In your heart, the answer you must search for, young Luke. Therein the truth you will find!

You can easily have velocity control the volume :) or make it control the amp env sustain, which is one of the techniques used when composing SID tunes on a C64. In fact, velocity can be used to control almost any parameter.. vibrato, PWM or whatever, as Midibox SID v2 will treat velocity data just like any other modulation source And now, back on topic :D If you want to make the absolute best use of your keyboard, then make sure you get one that handles sysex and NRPN, because the CC scheme only works for the lead engine. Now, if you get a keyboard that supports NRPN, then you can easily control ANY parameter in your SammichSID in ANY of the engines :) Over at ucapps.de you can find the manual for Midibox SID v2, and in the back you will find looong lists of all the synth parameters and their respective NRPN numbers. You then assign these NRPN numbers to the controls on your keyboard, and voila :) you're rocking! Sysex are of less importance, but allows you to do a lot of other cool things. Most important are the NRPNs if you want to control Drum engine, Multi engine or Bassline engine besides the Lead engine. Lead engine is the only one also supporting CC numbers, so if your keyboard only supports CCs, then all you can control will be Lead engine.

Troll?? Well, i wasn't on about different OSes or anything, hence the 'in general', but i understand that a few of you wants to take this towards the OS war :) I'm happy for you that you found a nice OS to work on, regardless of which! But i'm not talking crap about either Unix, iOS, OSX, Linux or any other OS at all. You do ;) Calling Windows crappy, bad gui and what not - And to me, that's trolling! I can't see how windows would suck, just because it has tons of features and can be configured to suit everyones personal needs?? Let's take some other software as example - is 'MS Paint' better than Photoshop, since Photoshop has so many features, menus and gui settings? I just pointed out that Windows is not that scary as many ppl wants it to be. And that everything is a few clicks away, easy peasy :) But i can say this much: - the 4-5 clicks are pretty much the same in both XP, Vista and 7. And they have nothing to do with the security center (which in 7 is called 'action center' btw). - If you miss the menu bar, try pressing 'Alt' button while you have a window open. - All your windows settings can even be easily saved, and transfered to another windows machine in a jiff. All ready to create again. No need for 30mins of settings-hunting. This works also from Vista to 7 (called an 'upgrade'). A bit trickier from XP to 7 though (called a 'migration'). Again, i can agree i was trolling if i was dissing OSX, Linux or whatever - I didn't! I just said that Windows is really not that hard. On top of that, i can't see why it's bad for you that I like Windows? If you work best on another system, then you just avoid Windows, but there is no need to call it crappy, just because you can't make it behave - It's all in the manual, like with any other piece of software.

Control Panel -> Windows Update -> Change Settings Select 'Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them' It's 4 mouseclicks, 5 if you count the click on the 'start' button - to me, it's not an overwhealming task, no :ninja: skills needed, but i can't speak for everyone ofcourse. But it kinda proves my point that if ppl had better understanding about computers in general, they wouldn't get into :frantics: that often

Nice stuff :D makes me think of Richard D. James. Especially i like the use of those female vocals (or atleast it sounds like female vocals to me :yes: )

Ok, i may be far off here, because i only used J5 for a few LEDs, but i was looking at the mbsid setup asm file, and it says Then i took a look in the MBSID manual, where there is a chapter on the front panel. Scrolling down to 'Complete Control Surface --- OSC section', there you can see that the 5 knobs are named #1 to #5, and the description says: Then, i looked at the chapter about Lead Engine. Scrolling down to 'KNoBs menu' (there are a similar paragraph in the chapters for Bassline, Drums and Multi too): In that same chapter it says everything needed to know about the parameters involed, how to adjust them to taste and evrything else. I hope that you get your knobs working, so you can start tweak some nice sounds and enjoy your MBSID fully :D But as i said in the start of the post, i did not play with this stuff myself, so i cross my fingers for your success. PS. how did you connect these pots to J5? Which lugs on the pots goes to which pins on J5?

Yes, it's a 'Terratec Mic2' :D Sure was cheap compared to Presonus stuff. Not the heftiest brand, but it really rocks for me

I didn't try it out just yet, but i'm almost sure that mbfm can also be layered by assigning more instruments to the same midi channel. I Gotta give it a go to see how it turns out.

Mine is the same, but it's just a cheap copy... i'm so happy with the 8 I/Os too. I can easily get by using software eq... maybe that's bad, dunno. Works fantastic for me.

Sure... but they are computer controlled :D

Aw, please.... come on! In fact a wellknown musicsoftware developer just had a huge webserver breakdown because of a recent update. 80% of the followers began bitching about Windows platform... until the dev himself responded that the webserver actually is running Linux!!111 My guess is, that if ppl had better understanding about computers, they wouldn't get into problems that often.. and that's a general statement, regardless of OS, hardware, everything. I can't build a house f.ex... but that doesn't mean that i should think 'bricks are bad' :D Anyways, this thread is about recording equipment, and i use computers for recording all the time. In fact a lot of huge studios uses computers too, to make multimilliondollar hits. Tons of worldtouring international artists has half the stage full of computer rigs - I'm sure they would use hardware-only if it yielded better results :) Sorry for derailing the debate :flowers: back to soundcards and mixers

Hehe, ironically enough i've used several types of computersystems for musicmaking in the last 15 years or so, and i never had any of those problems happen to me - not even on Windows ....btw, you really turn off your computer??? I wish i could do that too :D