Hawkeye

Ok, good to know - so my plan is a) measure the voltage arriving at the display b) wait for Antix to report back c) if there was no power problem, choose between Crystalfontz or the other. Thx for your help! Peter

Thanks, dude ;-), really looking forward to hear about the LCD from Zyscom :) Btw. woah, the OLED on the new Dave Smith & Roger Linn Tempest looks mighty fine :)

Well, i guess mine is particularly bad, that´s why i complain - maybe i should just try any other - i have no problems with the backlit lcds on other gear... The MB6582 itself is not the problem, its response is instantaneous. If I had a highspeed-cam, I would film it, you would understand then ;-).

yo ;-) Changing channels/routings in the mbseq is not a hassle. I most often stack instruments for max polyphony, so the mb6582 only uses one channel. machinedrum is slave, of course, as is the pc :-). the machinedrum is very good for creating drum patterns with sampled instruments. the seq is really good for sequencing them. really, you want the seq to be master, it shines ;-). the machinedrum interfaces only use midi (very old school, which is likeable) - the octatrack probably also supports usb. Yes, I think there are enough routes. Please consider, that not all of your mentioned instruments may need a back-channel, and if they need it, they may need it only temporarily (like i described with the mb6582 which needs it only when using bi-directional tools, like rutgers fantastic librarian). Also, personally i prefer layering and maximum polyphony over multiple instruments/multitimbrality in a synth (that saves midi channels and routes). But ofc, that may vary individually. Bye, Peter

Hola, I want to tune up the MB6582 (received the transparent waldorf knobs from the bulk order which still need to be backlit - thanks again, phunk!) Now what really annoys me a lot is my 9$ el-cheapo chinese backlit LCD. It is so slow, when you switch the menu pages you can walk to the kitchen, boil yourself a nice espresso, come back and it has not fully switched (ghosting effect). I searched for a VFD (they are insanely quick, like old-school electron tube displays), but I failed, as it would not fit (the vacuum tube conflicted with some tactile switches, which Wilba deliberately placed there to cause a big truckload of pain for old Hawkeye). Now the question is - does anyone of you have/know an especially quick 20x4 LCD, one that does not ghost so much and long? How about OLEDs and PLEDs - even if they have a life expectancy shorter than my average goldfish i would consider them, if still available... any feedback is welcome :-) Thanks and have a good night, Peter

addendum, regarding your last question and to clarify things - there is no need to switch anything, for example a track on the seq just outputs to "out1". And any midi data coming from the pc, e.g. from virtual usb3 is also forwarded to "out1" - no conflicts here. Once again, TK build a perfect tool, which would really cost $$$ in the real world - i say this like this, because it is like a dream for me (and no i am not drunk by now ;-)).. Hope your infection gets better and have a good night, Peter

uh, many questions and i just switched over to having a beer after a long day ;-) so forgive me any imprecisions, please :) After long mixer search (had a discussion with Smithy on this forum last year, there is also a thread somewhere) and the obvious choice of analog (cheaper, more headroom, no double adc/dac conversion) vs digital (total recall, dac/adc conversions only once if you have an integrated firewire interface and if you control everything from your daw afterwards) and my daily routine use of computers (sometimes being fed up with them), i decided to go completely analog, old-school :) - no need for a pc for jamming. But, ofc. sometimes you want to record things, so this is the (cheap) setup: - old 2003 1604 vlz mackie, which offers 4 +2 busses, which are recorded (see below) - 8x8 sound interface (m-audio fasttrack ultra), 96khz-capable. I use this to record my digital synth (2 channels) and the 6 busses from the mackie. I currently use one bus pair as a "dry" bus - all synths, one bus pair as a "wet" bus (fx returns) and the master mix out bus pair for recording "live sessions". The mackie allows dynamic assignment of instruments to all busses, so you switch around from wet/dry/main out recording to recording any instruments, if you choose, you can push a few buttons and record six individual (mono) instruments on six channels, or three stereo instruments, which is enough for my recording requirements. Going out of the pc, is a digital line to a digital synth (sampling) and two (stereo) channels assigned to the mixer and using two of its 16 channels. Using the mixer fx-sends potentiometers, I can use any pc-based instrument (vst) and send it through old-school fx units (e.g. delay or distortion unit) and record it again. You need 4 pairs of nodes to setup 4 full-blown instruments (input and output to pc) continuously, but consider if you need it continously. I did setup only a pair for the machinedrum and a pair for the roland synth. When i need rutgers mb6582 manager, i create another routing temporarily. The mbseq busses are used internally - i have not investigated this further - for nice effects like self-altering tracks. TK has written a lot more in the handbook, which i need to read again ;-) - for your request it is sufficient for you to connect IN1..X to USB1..X and vice versa. Have a nice evening! Peter

yo! i leave the machinedrum outs and ins connected to a midi in and midi out pair of the seq, and set up a (permanent) routing to the pc to virtual midi usb 4 port (both directions), so that any midi signals sent from the machinedrum appear on that usb4 port, and any data sent on that usb4 port is forwarded to the machinedrum. So, if the computer is not powered up, i don´t have to change anything.. but when a pc is connected, it can control and record the machinedrum, if necessary (this is most useful for the elektron soundbank manager tool). The same goes for all midibox synths, many of them have nice (java) guis to control the banks and program patches. this works perfectly - in my eyes there is no reason for another midi interface, ´cause routing everything through the seq only has advantages: - you can set up any midi routing you like between keyboards and keyboard-less-synths, forward midi notes to the pc, forward pc playback to any midi device. e.g. i forward my roland keyboard midi out via mbseq midi in 2 to virtual midi usb port 3, where it can be recorded in ableton (appears as a separate midi device). not that i do that too often nowadays (read below). The recorded track can then be played back the other way round (if you have set up a routing in the seq). - the seq v4 can have up to 6 outs (4x midi iic) and 3 ins which can be multiplied by midibox midi mergers or commercially available midi mergers. i very often leave the pc turned off nowadays, since the seq is ready. you can do almost everything there... and until windows is booted up and the daw is started really any kind of spontaneous inspiration is long gone ;-). As your daw crashes, i have a certain feeling you might follow that route ;-) enjoy & greetz, hawkeye

Hmm. no answers here yet, so just how I use things with a pc... - made the mbseq my midi-master-clock device (i way have a heck of a lot more faith in tks-midi-timing on a realtime os than abletons-midi-timing on a heavily interrupted-os, my windows laptop likes to take little naps for no other reason than to annoy me ;-)) - connect all synths and midi gear to the seq - if you are out of "midi in" ports on the seq, you can always use midibox midi mergers to double up a port (and use different midi channels to identifiy the source devices). - just regard the pc/mac as another piece of midi equipment (recorder, playback, synthesizer) on your seq setup, that is connected via the usb port (for minimal latency) - use the usb virtual midi ports in the seq for direct pc->midi unit routings, e.g. i connected my machinedrum physically to a seq midi in/out pair and virtually to usb midi port 4 (in and out) and can use elektrons samplebank manager easily - as if the machinedrum would be directly connected to a midi interface pair on the pc

yo, cool background track! mbfm-powered? very nice!

regarding the sids - they are noisy folks, i guess the best solution would be to pull ´em all out - complete silence :) *scnr* :-)

Instead of working I have made another one, now playing with the EuF filterbox, which is a great toy and still needs to be properly connected to that MBSeq V4 AOUT-NG ;-) That´s the last live session for some time, have a lot of work on the table, and don´t want to flood the forums - thanks everyone for the great comments and constructive critics on yesterdays session, I hope to get better slowly ;-). The SEQ is THE ultimate tool for live-playing, really, really great, a value not buyable by money and by far not achievable in a software solution, thanks TK.! See ya! Peter

yes, ask for 550€ and post it in the "sale requests" section, and i am quite sure you will sell it within a few weeks :)

don´t loose too many kgs - the mood will go down as well :)

hey, thanks for all comments! kris, i really appreciate your feedback - it somehow confused me badly when the lfo was messed up and the disharmonics went for too long - at that point i knew that i could not reconstruct the beginning (which i also liked), could not save it but continue somehow, nevermind, just released it, just as ed catmull said ;-) - still learning to control the uncontrollable :) thx for watching and have a good time! peter

great stuff ;-) i really enjoyed the video!

450€ is a very good offer indeed - i guess i have paid ca 700€ for mine... 8 sids included... i hope that someone from the forum buys it, or even better, that you change your mind ;-)

The MB6582 rocks the house ;-) Sorry for not being active very much in the last time - had some massive stress @ work, which had to be resolved :-).

yay :frantics: thx!

Hi Param1, I am using Win7 64bit, a MB6582 and an M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra Midi Interface and it works fine for me, no problem changing on the cutoff within the editor. Otoh, I had severe trouble with a different MIDI Interface (akai mpd32, their midi implementation sucks ;-)) Might be also a cable problem (e.g. too long/too noisy midi cable), although that sounds esoteric ;-). Bye, Peter

looks great! Hawkeye (<- back from holidays)

Hey, thanks for referencing the tut and enjoy building your mb-6582 - it still rocks every day and i hope TK still needs some time before mbsid v3 is released and Wilba makes a mb6582-v2 (Wilba, if you ever do this, i would love to see an integrated version with "external" filters and VCAs - a real virus killer ;-)) Ah, sorry for ot... Regarding the to-be-cut-nylon washers - these were the only ones i had available, if you have smaller ones, of course you do not need to cut them. (Mine were overlapping some solder pads). You may not need to use washers at all, the design with ~ 20 screws will hold very well, no need to tighten them much. What i still would recommend is to use an LCD with a quicker update rate - mine is horrible - still looking for alternatives like oled/pled/vfd, but found nothing much yet. Have fun! Bye, Hawkeye