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  1. Midifying Saxaphone

    in Design Concepts

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    hi reincarnate.

    Tnx for the post. Have put the project on the backburner a bit due to a lack of programing knoledge!! If you look at my blog you'll see what I have so far. Very close to what you've sugested! 1x core with DIN module and 10 swithes (5 for right hand and 4 for left hand + 1 octave for LH). Am looking for someone localy (or online...) that could give some guidance on the programing. As I realise the guys on here are all busy with their own projects and can't realy teach programing. I got some program going with with my limited knowledge and had some sucsess but you can only get so far on limited knowledge before you need seriuos help...

    Will let you know however when I get any further.

    Best regards

  2. Midifying Saxaphone

    in Design Concepts

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    Great idea! goodluck with it tho smile.gif

    here something a little similar you may/may not have stumbled across > http://synthophone.info/indexh.htm

    It looks and sounds great (if you've got a few k laying around).

    If this comes off the ground i hope the MIDIbox charm can make it affordable. Will be watching very intently for developments ;)

    Also the website Shuriken linked too is fair amazing. the "Son of Stealth" sounds very versatile by way of sensory input. Some really great ideas there.

    Had a look at that site. Looks stunning. I was only trying something VERY basic. But you know how it goes, one thing leads to another and before you know you've spend much more time and money on the project than what you've anticipated!! But thats part of the fun I suppose..... Will try and keep up to date on my blog.

    Regards

  3. Midifying Saxaphone

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    You should have a look at this website: The Electronic Sound-House

    This guy has made a wind controller himself. He has all the schematics online. But i can tell you now it's not an easy task.

    Very good site, tnx! Total information overload!! Will have to sleep on it and re think my strategy in the morning! Still think the MBHP is brilliant as a base for the whole project. That guy just confirmed a lot of my ideas especially for the "wind" part of the controller. He's obviously done a lot of research on the subject. So why re-invent the wheel. Are definitely going to incorporate some of those ideas!

    Regards

  4. Midifying Saxaphone

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Or for simple note on/off use an EPROM. Each button from the Sax tied to the EPROM inputs. EPROM outputs to Digital In board. When, for example, buttons 1 and 2 are pressed, the contents of this address will be at the output which you could use to drive the DIn board.

    Downside is no velocity.

    S

    Hi guys,

    Tnx for the great ideas. I like the EPROM idea as it's easier and I'm not too bright with programing (I'm already in trouble for posting in the wrong forum....see what I mean :) ) would like the functionality of velocity though. So back to learning programing I suppose.

    The sax have 21 keys (DIN) with 2 analog inputs - 1 for velocity and 1 for pitch bending (bite sensor, could be resistance foam or something similar)

    Will have a look at the Audio Commander application as well tnx Julien!

    Regards

  6. Midifying Saxaphone

    in Design Concepts

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    Hi guys. Don't know if this is the correct forum but here goes. I got this idea of midifying a saxaphone ( something like EWI). I stumbled accros the uCapps website and that was me hooked. Now I'm a total newbie when it comes to MIDI so please bear with me....

    Q1: Has anybody done this with MIDIbox already? (Or something similar)

    Q2: Which would be the best application to use as a base to work from.

    I've already built the MBHP core with a 18F452,1x DIN module and 2x20 display. Downloaded MIDIO128 app (which I thought would be a good point to start??)which seems to be working fine. Getting the midi events displayed and also output to the MDI Out port.

    Which brings me to Q3: On a sax you do not have one key dedicated to one note ie. several keys make up one note. Do I have to revert to hardware logic or can that be done with programing.

    I'm also using MIOS Studio2 but somehow what I see in the MIDIO128 Tool setup does not correspond to what happens when I give didgital inputs in DIN pins. It actually corresponds to what is written in the code midi_evnt.inc (whhich make sense. So how is the MIDIO128 Tool in MIOS Studio used.

    Sorry for all the blabber and lots of questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also tnx to TK and all the other BRILLIANT minds who makes all this available to noobs like me.

    I'll attach some pic's of the project at a later stage.

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