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Putting audio cards in a MIDIBox?


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I'm putting an audiocard into the one I'm building. It doesn't interface with mbhp in any way - just a shared power supply. The idea is just so that I only have to cart 1 box about instead of 2. I managed to get a B stock Firewire audiophile - only had 3 months warranty on it but what the heck - I'm ripping it apart anyway. Sure beats the risk of lugging my MOTU about  :)

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I asked:

What audio cards  ???

Moebius:

They just put an audio card in the midibox. Simple as that.

Hey moebius,

For me a "card" is something with PIC/ISA bus. That's why i was asking....

gbeth wrote:

who is doing this and where can I look at an example?

For example bcbox integrates a M-Audio firewire interface:

http://69.56.171.55/~midibox/forum/index.php?topic=4490.msg30572#msg30572

But only the MIDI part is connected to the MidiBox core, the audio part is standalone...

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Sorry, misunderstood.

I thought it was a sound card directly connected to a midibox....

i have been working with windowsXP embedded, joining my midiboxes with dedicated windowsXP system, attempting to increase response. the only multimedia drivers are sound/display related. No cdrom drivers, no games, no office applications.  Just java/OS/hardware interface to midibox. Response time is good.  Works really good with my midiboxMOOGModular worksurface.

but..... it would be nice to be able to hook sound cards into a midibox (don't really think the pic is fast enough)

gb

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but..... it would be nice to be able to hook sound cards into a midibox (don't really think the pic is fast enough)

No, PIC is way too slow...

Just compare:

PIC works with 10MHz (40MHz internal).

PCI-Bus (for Sundcards) works at 33MHz.

I know only one project to use a ISA-Networkcard with PIC... no soundcards.

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I know this is off topic but.. it sounds like you have been involved with the JAL ethernet project. ;D

JAL/ethernet works for me and my robotics projects :)

gb

No, I`m not involved. I just saw the JAL project on the net and a friend of mine uses it for some home automation stuff.

.... Isn't the audiophile a PCI card? I still don't quite get what is going on....

If you read the text carefully, you will notice that bcbox uses a "M-Audio Firewire Audiophile"

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FirewireAudiophile-main.html

This is no PCI card. It`s hooked up to your computer via Firewire.

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Hmm..

I remember there was talk about using midibox to control Yamaha soundcard daughter board (DB50XG, probably) a loong time ago.. I don't what happened to that.

Bye, Moebius

You don't need a midibox for this. Just connect the DB50XG to MIDI with a simple circuit:

http://www.compuzik.de/Download/DB50XG_Exp.zip (German - from the c't magazine)

And here the pinout of the DB50XG connector: http://atari.nvg.org/db50xg/

Raphael

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