analogue_mo

Hello everybody, thanks for the replies......... Hmmmm.....well, the thing about devilfish is that I dont want my TB flying around Europe by airmail....I can't believe the amount of people that acctualy send their TB's by airmail to foreign countries....sorry, but my heart tells me DON'T DO IT!!!! Another thing is....I really want to keep it as it is, I kind of look at it like a Vintage Picasso, you wouldn't repaint a Picasso it in order to better fit our Time and Space....would you???? >:( The TB is what is and I find it perfect that way, it wasn't easy at all to get it, specially in my country.....still (again with the Picasso example), I wouldn't mind putting this little picasso in a new frame, this wouldn't hurt at all....... what I'm about to write might even sound weird, but I really don't want for my friends to be allways hassling with my TB, cause most of them don't have experience with studio equipment, and can't really understand its value(not money value, the other one =P from the heart)....still, they just love the sound that comes out from it, and since I love it to, It's hard for me to refuse such a pleasure to anyone!.............. So, if there was a way that I could lock my TB inside a vault and have it controlled from another external machine (so that I wouldn't even touch it) this would be greeeat =) cause I just want to keep my TB forever and ever, and ever............ well, but anyways, regarding the sync question, after wondering around the forum I realised that the better solution is for me to build a little midi-to-sync/sync-to-midi external module.....at least this should be my starting point! Then I can just try to control the TB from one of the midiboxes that I already own in order to start understanding what does what...... And yess , I'm allways interested in learning some more, even if it costs me more money now(I will be able to save some in repair bills in the future) and (as you've probably realised by now)I really hate to have other people going trough my sh&#"......sorry my french :P My perspective on the world really changed since the day that I put my first midibox running, It gave me the (very wrong) impression that with time and lots of dedication I could become a MOOG myself =P (yeah!sure.....) anyways, thank you all, specially TK for this amazing DREAM FACTORY that you've been building, it really changed my life and the way I see music! FREE THE WORLD!LET MY PEOPLE MIDIFIE =) with GREAT LOVE...... ANALOGUE_MO

Hello and thanks for the reply.... my idea was to use something like the midibox 808 or seq_v3 to control the TB303........................this would be easly achieved if it wasn't for a little detail........303 has NO MIDI!!! :o only SYNC connection(roland's pre-midi atempt of rulling the world!)..... I dont really know what goes on inside this connection type, but since the 303 its pure monophonic analogue breeded, I've assumed that's something that CV could take care of....anyway the reason why I've posted this message was to find someone who could tell me: Yesss, I've made it happen and it rockks! Also because 303 user interface is kind of tpoor....... I really don't believe that nobody tried this before, but if this is the case, than I'll put more effort into my homework =P (This is not lazyness, I'm already building 2 projects as we speak/read??? so my hands are kind of full)... If I make it happen, I'll share my knowledge with all of you knowledge sharing people =) MIIDIIIBOOOXXX RULES! greetings from Outter space analogue_MO

Helllo everybody..... I want to know if its possible to control the TB 303 using a midibox?...... If it is, what PIC/modules would I need??? Thanks........Mo

Hello everybody, Altough I don't consider myself as a newbie anymore (I'm building my 2nd MB =) ), this is my first post in the forum... I'm building a simple customized midi controller for a MAX5 application that I've been developing. Its kind of a FX processor with 9 FX to choose from, and it features the possibility of recording and playng a 6 second sound sample. I'm using the midibox64 project as the source for this controller: -core stuffed with PIC18f452 -1 DIN (2xShift Registers) -1 DOUT (2xShift Registers) each FX has its own button and LED(9)....the buttons are set to onOnly mode and I've changed their behaviour so that when one FX button is pushed it gets illuminated while all other FX button LEDS go off. This was done according to an article that I found a while ago here in the forum (sorry!I dont have the link anymore....) The way to achieve this was to modifie "src/mb64_buttons.inc"....... Here´s the code for sharing purposes (so that this help request can help others as well): MB64_BUTTON_OnOnly ;; when on: send button value defined in dump ;; when off: send nothing BRA_IFSET TMP1, 0, ACCESS, MB64_BUTTON_NotifyChangeEnd SET_BSR MB64_BUTTON_VALUES_SR0 setf MB64_BUTTON_VALUES_SR0 SET_BSR MB64_BUTTON_VALUES_SR0+1 setf MB64_BUTTON_VALUES_SR0+1 rcall MB64_BUTTON_Hlp_SaveStat rgoto MB64_BUTTON_Send I'm also using one button to record and one to play the recorded sample, when the user pushes REC the app starts recording for 6 seconds. now MY QUESTION IS: Is it possible to maintain the REC button LED litten while the apllication records, and turn it off when the apllication stops recording? this way the user will be able to identify the recording action of the app... In order to do this I've set the recording button to Toggle, this way, when the user pushes the button it gets litten and the midibox sends a NoteON to the app so that it starts recording....then after the 6 second Record buffer is filled it stops recording and sends a NoteOff message to the midibox (same value as the previous received noteON message).....the thing is that this noteOFF message doesnt turn OFF the rec button LED......... according to other forum articles, I probably would be able to achieve this by using one extra ShiftR for the REC button and one extra ShiftR for the LED of the REC button, this way all other buttons behaviours would stay unchanged.... then I would have to configure my "LED Map" table in mk_syx.ini like: [LED_MAP] LED_SR1 = 1 # (Button ID #1-#8) "<---used for FX selection(OnOnly buttons)" LED_SR2 = 2 # (Button ID #9-#16) "<---used for FX selection(OnOnly buttons)" LED_SR3 = 18 # (MIDI Status received for Button ID #17-#24) ...................... explanation: LED_SR3 is the extra SR for the REC button, Button ID #17-#24 is the group that represents the extra SR used for the REC button LED finally I would have to change the APP so that when it receives a NoteON message (telling it to begin recording) it would have to reply a NoteOn message to the midibox to turn ON the REC btn LED, and a NoteOff message when recording buffer is filled(after 6 seconds of recording). Altough I'm pretty sure that this would work, I want to know if I can set this specific behaviour to TOGGLE button types only, as I changed the behaviour of the ONONLY buttons before...... here are the links for the articles that I've been dwelling with in the last coupple of weeks, but unfortunelly with no success.... http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,6157.15.html http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,9504.0.html http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,5034.0.html http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,10970.0.html http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,6733.0.html http://www.ucapps.de/mios_c_set_dout.html Sorry for the complete status report but I figured that Is better to be specific and save time in the future(I´m not very good with explanations, thats why this is my first post). So, after all the hardcore explaining here´s the short version: Is there anyway in midibox64 that I can set the TOGGLE button LEDS exclusive reaction based on received midi events??? Thanks to TK and all supporters for making my mad scientist childhood fantasy a reality, my room will never be the same but who cares??? ;D Best regards................Mo