Gogledd Posted April 12, 2012 Report Posted April 12, 2012 (edited) Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to this and have absolutely no experience in coding (my personal DIY synth experience is all in analogue electronics so far), but... What I'm really looking for is a way to control the NEC D1867G soundchip via MIDI and a nicer way of programming it whilst in that state than the method built in. I've got a Casio VL-1 (and another Casio with an identical chip) that could be used. What I was looking for was a MIDI-controlled (for pitch anyway) module to be made out of them, permanently rigged to be in the 'ADSR' programmable synth mode. Rather than the push-button interface on them at the moment, it could use rotary switches or encoders (whatever works) to control the synth programming; this is what I'd really want out of it, basically making them into a standalone digital oscillator much like you see the standalone rackmount filters. The second chip could possibly be used for layering another sound on top via a simple mixer. What really inspired this was seeing a VL-1 that someone had assimilated with his analogue modular: http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/pics/VLT-in-1CC.jpg Please let me know if you think this (or something vaguely similar) would be possible with MIDIbox hardware and programming (I'm sure I could try hijacking a friend or two who can code!). Many thanks, - Dan. Edited April 12, 2012 by Gogledd Quote
nILS Posted April 12, 2012 Report Posted April 12, 2012 Welcome aboard, Gogledd :flowers: Short answer: yes. Long answer: Yes, pretty much anything is possible. You really wanna find some detailed info about it (datasheet, etc) or you'll have quite a long reverse engineering session ;) Quote
Gogledd Posted April 12, 2012 Author Report Posted April 12, 2012 Thanks! I guess a better question would be 'how do I go about this?' I've contacted Casio direct about a datasheet a few weeks ago but didn't get a response. It's going to have to be a reverse engineering job, I think. Quote
thymoakathisia Posted June 2, 2013 Report Posted June 2, 2013 Any luck with getting something close to a data sheet or pinoutnor something on the NEC D1867G? Quote
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