LCD & 4 menu buttons?

[rogic]

I did some price checking and this LCD 16x2 is going to cost us around 27 Euros.

If I decide not to make MIDIBOX with LCD and use firmware with default enabled COM option, what will happen to 4 menu buttons? Are they going to be useless?

[Captain_Hastings]

The price for the LCD seems really high... i got one (16x2 without backlight) for 15.50 euros in an electronics shop.

However, if you don't use the LCD, 3 of the 4 menu buttons will be useless (i guess you could keep the snapshot button).

cheers mate

[lemonhorse]

just BTW:

...sometimes it's helpful to work with the LCD-Display - or do you never need any bank (24256 eeprom) information? - or the state (values) of the MB64 Pots/MB64-Sequencer?

[rogic]

>...sometimes it's helpful to work with the LCD-Display -

>or do you never need any bank (24256 eeprom)

>information? - or the state (values) of the MB64

>Pots/MB64-Sequencer?

Hm... we actually need midibox just for DJing purposes, but it can be useful for other friends who are working with Reason. I don't know actually what are the all features of MIDIBox 64, so I can't tell...:-/ if we need it. Definately we are not going to build banksticks.

[TK.]

I could add an (software) option into the SysEx dump structure which disables the menu buttons and assigs them to MIDI controllers.

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[rogic]

That would be great, thanks