TK. Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 This beautiful MIDIbox SID V2 has been built by Kevin aka. SubatomicDon't miss his construction blog: http://www.subatomicglue.com/sidl0g/ :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenclements Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Beautiful... I'll take it~!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 It looks fantastic. It's got that old-school vibe to it, like it's a tribute to TK's original MB-SID case, but with the V2 mods to the CS and in sexy red and black. It's good to see someone build their own CS the hard way with veroboard and lots of wire, totally original and incredibly cool.You've earned supreme respect from me for wiring up a control surface to match the default MB-6582 switch/LED matrix! That wiring was hard enough to do with "virtual" wires on a PCB - doing it with real wires must have taken a lot of patience and careful planning. In case people were wondering, that is a prototype of the new MB-6582 base PCBs about to go into full production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 hey guys, thanks for the kind words! this project was very fun, and now that it's done, damn, i can really see firsthand how cool the mbsid is in sound and function (awesome work TK)! thanks to everyone who has helped me along that way, and TK rules for conceiving of the mbSID, and wilba for simplifying the design into the mb6582, awesome!...That wiring was hard enough to do with "virtual" wires on a PCB - doing it with real wires must have taken a lot of patience and careful planning.Here's my "careful planning" for the wiring: http://www.subatomicglue.com/sidl0g/IMG_3595.JPGMy first thought was to pass through all busses (JD8/JD7/JD6/JD5) to each CS module' date=' but I found that only a few wires from each bus was actually needed for most of the cs modules, so it helped to simplify and plan out, especially since I didn't quite have room on a couple of the modules for so many pins. regardless, planning this out ahead of time on paper proved to be a great reference when i actually did the work! I was able to plan the above diagram using Wilba's DIN and DOUT wiring diagrams and thus it matches Wilba's firmware almost verbatim, I only had to change a couple lines in the .asm and recompile for the PgUp/PgDown buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Congratulation! It was a great Build! And the Colorshema is pefect!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sineSurfer Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 yeah Kevin, it looks great and is good to see your box finished ;)...now show the heart breaker pictures, you know you want to heehee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Congrats, subatomic! Nice build, I just love the orangish LCD, reminds me off my XP-30 ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seppoman Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Fantastic box, I love it :) also the blue lines on the panel go together very well with all the red lights. Where did you get the panel made?S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Where did you get the panel made?hey seppoman' date=' I have this awesome friend with a CNC, he made 2 copies, one for me and one for him. hopefully someday, my box will have a twin. :-) I designed the color scheme using photoshop with art pulled from google, screengrabs from frontpanel designer, photos of the albs.de knobs, crystalfontz images, and other clipart i pulled from various places. i tried about 20 different colorschemes before settling on this mockup. Previsualization is very useful! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 This beautiful MIDIbox SID V2 Yep!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goblinz Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Looks good. Took me a whie to realise it wasa c64 case. The underlit knos work well, I'm doing the same so will find your blog useful! G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Took me a whie to realise it wasa c64 case.They always scrub up nicely with a good re-paint huh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hey Sub, this looking great! Where are those DIN jacks with metal ring coming from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swindus Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Very nice! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reboot Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 hard work and very nice!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hey Sub, this looking great! Where are those DIN jacks with metal ring coming from.I'm using this MIDI jack in the mbSID: Digikey CP-1235-ND (CUI SD-50LS). It fit perfectly into the c64's 2 port holes on the back (i.e. no cutting the c64 case!!)Here's the one I used on the 9090, it's somewhat similar: Mouser 164-2522 (Deltron 651-0500) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 That's a tasteful part if I ever saw one. Thx Sub! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goblinz Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Just taken another look at this, it looks like Kevin has stolen Darth Vaders MB-SID ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R64 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Mate that is just beautiful. Nice work! You must be really proud of that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 It's been blogged... ;Dhttp://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/06/midibox-sid.htmlhttp://www.retrothing.com/2008/06/stunning-homebu.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seekwhensir Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Does my ISP or DNS server suck? Or has Subatomic's site been down for over a week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Does my ISP or DNS server suck?No, off-site documentation sucks. </broken record>The site's down :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opkod Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 one thing that could be great for the design, is to use a cartdridge to fit the memory chip. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.