Question regarding front panel

[unrise_lyrical]

Hey all,

been a while since I have been on here. I am finally getting around to building a simple MBSid :) I am using a cigar box to house the project, so I dont have massive amounts of real estate for running a complete face setup. I was wondering if anyone could tell me the following. I am planning on running the basic minimal setup as covered in the User manual, but Id also like to have pot control over things like the Filter and LFO. Other things like the mod matrix and stuff I have already decided I wont be implementing in the front panel. Is it possible to only have one or two of the sections (like Filter & LFO) set up, and the others without dedicated controls?

Cheers

Andrew

[Wilba]

Yes, you can have a subset of the full control surface. For example, you could use just two rotary encoders for Filter Cutoff and Filter Resonance, or encoders plus switches, or encoders plus switches plus LEDs. You would only need to change the setup_*.asm file to configure which DIN/DOUT pins you are using. Since all parameters are editable via the menu, it's OK to have some or all of the Osc/Env/LFO/Filter sections missing, or even some parts within a section. i.e. perhaps you just want two knobs to tweak the currently selected LFO rate/depth.

Also consider an alternative idea... there is a "Knobs" layer which lets you control 5 custom parameters, which are setup to control one or more patch parameters. Perhaps adding a few rotary encoders to control just this Knobs layer would be more flexible than having them fixed to control Filter or LFO parameters - you could change what they control in each patch, and also control the range, etc. This is preferred when jamming with the bassline engine.

You used the term "pot control"... MB-SID does not use pots for the sections, it uses rotary encoders. You can connect a pot but that's for controlling "custom" parameters that you define per patch.

[unrise_lyrical]

ahh ok, cheers, im guessing these should be linear encoders? 10k? or is it different to the midibox64? Is it possible to get these without detents?

[nILS]

If you're talking about 10k and linear you mean pots and not encoders. If you mean pots, you prolly won't find any detented ones (there's rare cases of center-detent-pots). And if you really mean pots then yes 10k and linear is good.

If you're talking about encoders then yes, they come with and without detents and it's also possible to "undetend" detented encoders.