Cabling and application upload questions

[defred]

Hello all, I'm now in the cabling session of my box, and of course I have several questions about it. This post is a sum up of all my current problems and question so its rather a large one. :-/

My box has a single AIN module, I guessed I need to connect it to the core like this :

AIN Vs-> Core Vs

AIN Vd-> Core Vd

AIN A0-> Core A0

AIN A1-> Core A1

AIN A2-> Core A2

AIN A3-> Core A3

and left the Core A4, A5, A6, A7 with nothing on it, is that correct ? No problem with the three other pins that don't change wether you have 1 or 2 AIN.

In a flash of extreme smartness I figured that potentiometer are "sided", I mean there is a mini and maxi postion, so in order to avoid inverted pots (do we care ?) what is the correct wiring of it ? I measured the pots resistance and mounted them so they are in the right way, but as I'm starting soldering power supply to it I don't know where to put the 5v and where to put the Grnd ? I know this is a newbie annoying quesion, but I couldn't guess with my documentation.

Next some bankstick issue, I want to add 2 build-in banksticks to have 16 bank capacity, looking at the "8 bankstick diagram" I figure I could connect my two chip as if they were the two first of the chain (A=0 and A=1) is that correct ?

Now some software application questions :

I've downloaded the "midibox64_v2_1" applications files, get "perl" and the "mplab ide".

By default some buttons are dedicated to menu navigation, as I have no LCD I want to use these buttons for other purposes (i.e. bank change) is there a special modification to make in the original asm file ?

Same about the bankstick CS option, if I have 2 bankstick connected I thought I need to have -1 option, is that right ?

Well that's all (and enough) for now. Forcoming thanks for your help !!!

defred, totally dedicated to the box before total dedication to music.

[TK.]

Hi,

you should always tie the open analog pins to ground, thats saver

Pots: see this picture http://www.midibox.org/users/tor_arne/midibox64_walkthrough/pots.jpg

BankSticks: yes, A=0 and A=1 are correct, and DEFAULT_BANKSTICK_CS should be set to -1

Application: you can disable the menu navigation buttons by setting the DEFAULT_DIN_MENU_* values to unused (or invalid) pin numbers like 0x80, 0x81, ...

Best Regards, Thorsten.