Max Romantschuk

Ooh, gonna have to follow this one... :) Been thinking about doing something like this... But probably in say 10 years or so when there's more powerful hardware at power levels closer to current netbooks. (Would't care for fans in a synth.) Also Nvidia's CUDA and/or Intel's Larrabee could open up a lot of possibilities. Also I'm holding out for an open source equivalent of Reaktor. ;) But I also demand pics! :)

With six billion people on the planet the probability of having a truly original idea is really tiny. Just ignore the commercial stuff and do your thing man! :) Or if you have money to spend, buy that thing, learn about it, build a better box yourself. ;)

Replying so I can follow the thread more easily. ;) Keep up the good work! :)

Yah, been doing that so far... ;)

So... Not dead yet. Haven't gotten bored, given up, any of that. Real Life hit me. Hard. I had a bit of a cold since Christmas, which got worse, and worse... By the time I went on a can't-miss-it business trip mid last week I came to the conclusion that I'd lost the battle, and spent the rest of the week on sick leave. Now I'm finally more or less OK, but there's a bunch of household-related stuff that's cropped up since xmas and has to be taken care of before I can get back to work on my project. It's all quite frustrating really, but that's what you get for starting a project like this having four kindergarten-aged kids. ;) Fortunately I love the little bastards enough not to take it out on them... :) So... With any luck I should be able to get back to work soon!

Well, seems s1:s point was that I could turn on notification by default for threads I post in. That way I'd get what I want in one place. Unfortunately that place seems to be email, and not a page listing like the "Show unread posts since last visit." -page. Can't have it all, I guess! ;)

Um... There is nothing inherently good or bad about pop music. It's just what it is, "popular". The goodness or badness are totally separate from that, and also subjective qualities. So don't feel bad for liking a pop track. ;)

This is a truly interesting tool. Make fun all you want, this could open up music making to lots of kids and others less skilled. Microsoft Research does a lot of insanely cool projects. It's truly too bad it's all Windows-only. Nothing surprising there though. EDIT: Typo: projects, not project. Photosynth for example.

So still a no... Because that's another separate screen to watch, unless I add a bookmark every time I reply to something. Darn.

Whenever I reply to a thread I can follow any further discussion through the "Show new replies to your posts." -page. But what if I wanted to follow a thread the same way without replying? The notify feature seems to send emails, but that's not what I'm after. So am I stuck replying to a thread whenever I want to keep track of it? Or have I missed some unnecessarily small and ambiguous icon somewhere? ;)

Nice build! I think the painting and stuff doesn't make it a less pro build, on the contrary I think it gives your unit a uniqueness of it's own. :)

Wikipedia seems to bundle them all up in a list of regional variants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding Black pudding seems to much like Finnish "mustamakkara", or black sausage, made from blood, oats, stuff like that. Good stuff. (It's too bad that the blood (and intestines) of slaughtered animals seems to go to waste in a lot of places. Why use up all that energy to raise an animal for slaughter and only use a fraction of the useful parts in the end..?)

Honda Fitta, sold somewhere in southern Europe. In Swedish, however, fitta is slang for cunt... ;) Also, I totally forgot about Finnish and/or Swedish spinach pancakes and blood pancakes. (I kid you not, great with lingonberry jam :) )

A short is the same as a connection, and connections have little resistance. You set your multimeter to measure resistance, say 1K Ohm, and whenever it says 0 there is a direct connection. What is a short and what isn't you have to deduce for yourself, but I'm guessing the resistance between the two offending pins is 0. What you want to look for is any place between the pins and the chip header the traces cross. If all else fails desolder the pin header and see if there is still a short.

Hehe. :) Unfortunately my DSP-related knowledge is limited to grasping the problems, but I'm rather useless at designing the solutions. (Tried to learn digital filter design once, the complex math was beyond what I was prepared to cram into my head... ;) ) But I agree that it's easy to make something more lofi, but it'd be a shame to have a sampling engine that produces too much clashing harmonies for it to be useful for melodic stuff.

Back on topic... Looked through the docs once more: http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_shx8.html "The MBHP_SHX8 module expands MBHP_AOUT to up to 64 CV outputs. It consists of 8 Sample&Hold chips which multiplex the analog outputs of the MAX525. Please note that this module requires special support from the application which is not possible in all cases." Copy-pasted this time... Less risk for my disease-ridden brain to fsck with me... :) EDIT: And I'm too late. ;)

Indeed. My fault entirely. Must be the fever... Stupid viruses. ;)

1st commandment of midiboxing: Read the confusing documentation. 2nd commandment of midiboxing: Read the now slightly less confusing documentation again. According to the MIOS introduction page: http://www.ucapps.de/mios.html'>http://www.ucapps.de/mios.html ...a single core can handle up to 64 analog outputs. I'm sure the exact module configurations can be found with a little more research. :) http://www.ucapps.de/ http://wiki.midibox.org/

Indeed. I have a firm belief that intelligent and creative people can become excellent chefs with experience, and I've always considered myself a bit of a chef in perpetual training... :) The whole pancate-semantics debate though. Tricky business. In Russia there's blinis, which are much like savoury crepes. In Finland there's letut (Finnish) or plättar (Swedish), which are "Swedish pancakes" according to my 1950's Betty Crockers cookbook. In my experience blinis, crepes, and Swedish pancakes are all non-rising. The Swedes (and Finns) make something called pannkaka / pannukakku, which does rise but is not fried in a pan but baked in an oven. American pancakes are, in my experience always made with a rising component. Older recepies employed yeast, but today it's practically always baking soda or baking powder. OK, out of trivia now. :)

You do know how to use a multimeter to look for shorts? But then again we already know where it is electrically, now you have to find it physically.

I've seen a lot of people treating their bodies much more poorly. They're called smokers... Does it matter if someone wants to do something stupid with a laser? Ever heard of scarification? What about piercing? And who really advocates censoring stupid things to subject yourself to on the Internet? People should be able to make informed decisions about things themselves. Sorry for the rant... :)

Bah humbug! You kids and your 16 bits of audio data... Boy when I was a kid we only had one and a half bits if we were lucky, and it was uphill both ways I tell you! ;) But really, 8 bits is plenty for lots of things. Halves the bandwidth. But greater challenges are not just simple playback of samples... When implementing a sampler one major concern is playing back samples reliably at different rates. Also how to deal properly with aliasing and keeping below the Nyquist frequency when playing back samples at a higher rate than they were recorded or that the DAC can produce. This is where the DSP hurdles come in. Then again, if we were to have a large memory to use then you can use multiple samples for a wavetable with individual samples for different frequency ranges, solving the whole aliasing issue. (Some older wavetable synths did this to my knowledge.)

I'll spell it out for you... The forum page links to the wiki page which says send an email and gives very clear instructions. Read those. Read em again if you don't get it. And again after that. And if that doesn't work ask again, but is says right on the wiki page to email Wilba... ;)

Well, if you're sure you'll fsck it up it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy... ;) Of course, some people are better suited for stuff like this than others. But I still think you'd be able to learn all you need if you really wanted to do this. But I'm guessing it's just not your thing. For me building stuff is just as fun as making music. Sometimes more fun than making music, in fact. :)

You guys give me no choice... ;) Just added myself to #8: http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,12747.0.html 3, a stereo pair + a Muphy's Law spare seems like a good option. Reading the MIDIbox SID docs it seems like that will allow me to make full use of the sound engine with reduced polyphony and/or multitimbrality? Oh, and by build blog so far was done when I had the very rare opportunity to work home alone. Normally it's four kids and pure chaos... Everything is on hold now until I shake this cold and can afford some late nights again. ;)