cshesse

Are you looking for one of these?

=========== SOLD =========== I'm selling this MB-6582: http://www.christopherhesse.com/post/3291347881/mb-6582-midibox-sid-v2 I don't really use it, but it seems to work fine when I tested it, except that some of the knobs are a little skippy when adjusting parameters. I'm selling this AS-IS, so if it has some problem, you may have to fix it. That said, besides the knob skippy-ness, I don't know of any problems with it. I've got a 120V C64 adapter, so if you are in Europe, I will save some shipping and not include it. Cost is $800 + shipping, which is less than it cost me for the parts. Also the lights are white, not blue like they look in the picture.

Thanks TK! sammichSID sold, MB-6582 possibly sold.

Thanks for the info Hawkeye, I thought this was the case, but he still approved the other sale requests, so I was waiting for a go ahead from him. For all you guys messaging me, I'm in the United States, and I paid $400 for parts for the sammichSID, and $1000 for parts for the MB-6582, so I'll consider any offers less than or equal to those amounts (plus shipping). If you're interested just make me an offer and I'll probably take the best offer after like a week.

I got a few PMs, you actually seem to have "left a comment on my profile" instead of a PM, which is interesting. TK still hasn't responded, and I believe I need his permission to sell these, even at-cost, so they're still in limbo.

Hi everyone! TK, may I please have permission to sell a MB-6582 and sammichSID? I built these awhile ago but never really used them.

I couldn't see my MIDI device until I installed Mandolane on Mac OS X 10.6. If this is always necessary, it would be awesome if it said to download Mandolane on http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid_manual_ed.html.

I had some noise with the C64 power supply, I had repaired it with a smaller capacitor than the default and the ripple voltage was audible. While waiting for a bigger capacitor, I took a 9V AC transformer power supply (31VA) and combined it with a 5V switching power supply (2.3A) that I had laying around and a 9-pin DIN connector and it worked fine.

The patch editor crashed on my mac and couldn't find my midibox on Windows, I had way less problems with MIDI OX and it actually worked when I used the SysExBox thing. For PatchTurkey or whatever nils made, I couldn't figure out how to actually get it to upload things.

Alright, for everyone arriving from Google, if you have Windows use http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_syxloader_18f.html Serge's SysEx Loader (SysExBox). It is easy to use and loads the patches without a problem. If you have Mac or Linux, I recommend booting Windows to use it.

Open Midi-Ox View->SysEx SysEx->Configure... Change both sizes from 256 to 60 Change delay after F7 to 1000 Save File->Send SysEx File... Select the .syx preset file included with the midibox sid .hex file in the presets sub directory. Well that would do it, from everything I have found, the file sends and all, but I don't see these presets anywhere so I don't really know why it's not working.

Thanks for the help! 1. Nice to know 2. Well it's too late now, but do they have white LEDs of that size that cost less than 50c each and are NOT ultrabright? Because I would have bought them if I saw them anywhere. 3. The PSU claims 7.5VA for the 5V rail and 9VA for the 9VAC rail, so I guess it could still be a faulty power supply, it's very intermittent though, it usually works when all the SIDs are plugged in and I've not moved the box for awhile. Maybe it takes some time for the 5V circuit to warm up? (seems weird) EDIT: it's a black C64 power supply, so I just took apart the 5V part and replaced the caps and resoldered the resistor and it seems to work now. Except that I didn't have a 4.7mF capacitor, so the leds are all wavy now.

Hi guys, I just almost finished building an mb-6582. I've got a couple of problems: 1) The sync LED doesn't turn on when I hit sync. Is it supposed to turn on? All the other LEDs seem to work, and when I hit the button, the LCD goes from the default screen to "Ens. Clock" so the button seems to work. EDIT: I tested the LED directly and it did turn on. 2) Some of the LEDs that are not supposed to be on are just barely on. I'm planning on reducing the brightness, so maybe this won't be a problem, but is that supposed to happen? I'm using some ultrabright LEDs with 1K resistors, planning on going to 3K because the lights are pretty bright. EDIT: I ended up with 68K resistors, which is nice and not bright, but also some of the LEDs don't seem to have even brightness, so I guess I'll have to keep it lower and brighter, unless there's some way to PWM the LEDs? 3) Well this isn't a question yet. My 4th pair of SIDs (from right to left) has a problem where the box doesn't turn on if I have the SIDs in there. Sounds like a short, but I haven't investigated where yet (I did notice 1V on the 5V/GND jumper, slowly increasing, none of the SIDs felt abnormally hot), and since I'm not sure if the socket somehow killed my SIDs, I want to be fairly certain before I put my only two spare SIDs in there. EDIT: I've now found this problem without the SIDs in, so it must be somewhere else on the board. I removed all the supporting chips (no SIDs or PICs) until the problem went away, then put them back, the problem did not return. I think it may be an intermittent issue with some of the supporting chips. Thanks, Chris