SounDuke Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Hello everyone ;)I finished my MBSID and MB64, I'm planning to add a keyboard to them. Since I read the reply of TK to a post of a midiboxer who wanted to have buttons interfaced to DIN module capable of sending midi note on, I'm quite sure that because I don't possess experience with PIC assembler neither time to learn, this is going to be a hard work :DSo I thought of routing note on message to midi in of MBSID and MB64 from this midi encoder http://www.geocities.com/midiboutique/ (mkc-MG).I could build a matrix of buttons for the MBSID and connect it to a mkc-MG, then route the midi out of the encoder to midi in of midibox.The same for MB64, with another matrix and another mkc-MG but I'm using push buttons from arcade games for this one, to turn it into an impressive keyboard midi controller :DIt's an expensive way out (100 € for both encoders), but I need a keyboard for my midibox, do you know if there's a better and cheaper way to achieve my objective? I don't want to use casio or similar things because I need a more personalized keyboard (very small for MBSID and very big for MB64) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moebius Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Sounds doable.And 50e/board isn't really THAT bad price ;)Hmm.. I thought it was a discontinued long time ago, but http://www.cedos.com/e510_midi_chip.htm - Cedos has these E510 chips for sale.. can't find the price though. It would even have velocity sensivity ::)And how many buttons do you need for your MB64? You could EASILY configure buttons to send midi note commands using Vmidibox64: http://www.midibox.org/mios_tools/Bye, Moebius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SounDuke Posted April 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Thanks Moebius! As always good tips from you :DI don't know if common normally open pushbuttons are reliable for good velocity sensing :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moebius Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 I don't know if common normally open pushbuttons are reliable for good velocity sensing :D Yeah, you are right ;DSwitches need two poles, so velocity can be calculated from the time, what it takes to switch from one position to another.Bye, Moebius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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