new MB project and tutorial

[noofny]

Hi, I've started to publish the tutorial of a MB project I'm working on and was wondering if it's ok to publish the link here. Apart from enjoying the project, my intention was to give something back to the community, so I'm taking plenty of photos and documenting in as much detail as I can with my spare time. Anyway the link is here;

http://noofny.blogspot.com

I couldn't find where the best place was to publish the link - hope the tutorial may help or inspire someone.

-Mike (noofny)

[puddingbrumsel]

Congrats!! Very well done. Superb tutorial!

[noofny]

Hey thanks a lot :-)

[stryd_one]

It's certainly OK - nay, encouraged, to post the link here. It's a really good blog, will be great for new members to read that one :)

It's just a real shame you didn't document it on the wiki :( Offsite documentation goes missing, cannot be updated, gets out of date and confuses people, etc etc etc....

[noofny]

Cool. Don't worry - when I finish it I intend to copy the tutorial to the WIKI, just didn't want to have to post to 2 sites whilst I'm putting it together. It'll be a good backup too if the blog goes down.

8)

[Goblinz]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing :)

It's always nice to see people making their own housing from scratch.... A bit of effort, but so much worth it.

[cimo]

What i call organization!

Rule #1 i might have to dig a bit into that .. the dreamy part, gotta read MIOS license first.

I am very interested in how you are assembling the frame, keep us informed.

Simone

[noofny]

Thanks Goblinz, yeah it's added a little more action to the project that's for sure!

Cimo - Cheers also - yeah I wouldn't dream of doing anything until I get TK's & the community's approval...will be doing a bit more on the frame this weekend so hopefully get more posted in the next couple of days.

[asafnetzer]

Thanks for sharing, this looks great

[noofny]

I added an RSS feed to the blog so you can subscribe to it now, also added some download links for layout files. Got a fair bit done today but holding off posting until tomorrow when more is done.

We had the most amazing electrical storm in the middle of me doing a bunch of soldering today - a couple of lightning hits came down very close so I stopped, unplugged the computers, modem, TV, etc, then continued soldering. Gotta have priorities.

[noofny]

Posted some progress - channel strips and some overall pics.

Been a busy weekend!

8)

[stryd_one]

Been a busy weekend!

Sure has! rock on man...

[nILS]

Nice! Keep the updates coming :-)

[m00dawg]

Very nice indeed! That's quite a mixer too!

[lylehaze]

The project is a real landmark,

The documentation is most excellent.

A real double-grand slam!

LyleHaze

[noofny]

Hey cheers for the comments! I've been working on the software and RGB LED matrix the last few weeks so haven't updated in a while - but once the LED's arrive from China in a week or 2 i'll have the final phase done and will post updates and move the doco into our wiki.

[noofny]

took some vids...still not done but getting close...

http://noofny.blogspot.com/2009/02/update.html

[stryd_one]

Coming along nicely!

[SilverZero]

I bookmarked your tutorial for a go-to reference when my parts arrive. Thanks for all the effort!

[noofny]

Cool...got the clip matrix (finally) finished!

http://noofny.blogspot.com/2009/02/bling-matrix.html

I tells ya, this is the hard part for sure! All worth it though  8)

[Guest]

hey! pretty impressing and inspiring.

i am trying to understand the remote script you wrote and allthough i am a noob when it comes to programming i was able to understand most of the script.

what i didn´t understand is how you handle the knobs. i found the line "def Handlepot" and "def HandleChannelButton" etc. there are some entries for the buttons, which i can handle and change for experiments. but there are no entries for the pots. i tried to make some, but nothing seemed to work.

i tried something like this:

def HandlePot(self, trackIndex, controllerIndex, potValue):

        if (self._LOG_HANDLER_EVENTS):

            self.logger.log("HandlePot > TRACK=" + str(trackIndex) + " CONTROLLER=" + str(controllerIndex)  + " VALUE=" + str(potValue))

     

        if (potValue > 0):

            if (trackIndex == 0):

                if (controllerindex == 10):

                    self.SetDeviceParameter(self.GetDeviceByName(trackIndex, "Beat Repeat"), "Offset")

        else:

            self._appInstance.show_message("HandlePot > TRACK=" + str(trackIndex) + " CONTROLLER=" + str(controllerIndex)  + " VALUE=" + str(potValue))

i am willing to learn, so maybe you can push me into directions.

thanks

greetings

john

[noofny]

john,

sorry about the longdelay - have moved house and been offline for a while. in my midibox sofftware i kind of hard-code the pot values to various control change events. you wont see any handling of these specifically in my liveapi script because I used the UI to 'learn' these pots. Later down the track I'll probably move this into the api script so it's easier to understand.

Hope this helps.

[Guest]

thanks noofny for the reply,

and, yes it helps. i thought, you somehow automapped the pots in the script like you did with the "Device On" function of the three channel buttons. that is what i tried to to, but haven´t been succesful yet. so, i guess i keep working on that and following your great work.

greetings

john

[noofny]

She's almost done now...got the face plate fitted...very exciting times!

http://noofny.blogspot.com/2009/05/almost-done.html

Once I clean the doco up I'll post a page on the wiki.

[ssp]

see that... thats sexy that is! and yep im jelous!