dcer10 Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hi All,I was just thinking how great it would be if there was a combination of HW and SW to be able to have a bankstick reader for the PC, connected up with USB or serial which would allow you to put in your fav bankstick in whatever form you use it ie mine connects up with a 9pin dsub and to be able to extract its contents and do something useful with them. It would be great to access and visually manipulate midibox stored data on a PC, without the limitation of it needing to fit within midi...Examples would be able to convert midibox sequencer patterns and songs to midi files which you could edit in your favorite sequencer application, or to have a vitrual midibox to visually interact with your bankstick data ie sequencer application emulator on the PC with a more cubase looking layout where you can see your songs laid out visually and edit them and save the song back to the bankstick etc (as an alternative to using the UI on the midibox itself, not a replacement!). Not that the seq, or any midibox is lacking in control, but this would be a handy feature for some people with a cut back CS, or no CS, or who wanted to visualise their song layouts etc. Im sure some application could be useful for the SID and other midiboxes too. I know there are tools to do this via midi to some degree, but the output files are not able to be used on the PC, only stored except the midibox controller editor, which is great!! Im just imagining the ease of editing a song on the pc and then loading the output up on a little black box with a play button at a gig....I guess it would be a big task, but may be one worth thinking of for any developers out there!! I guess that all of this could be done by just recording the midi events out of the sequencer, but you cant put that whole song back in when you have played with it :)Im trying to get away from using the PC/Mac with music any more, but if I had to use them, this would be a good way.All the best,John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hi John,somewhere on the net I have seen a page from a guy who uses Banksticks instead of Q-Cards for storing sounds for his Waldorf Q. As far as I know, the Q-Cards are "normal" flash cards with a pinout identical to those telephone or health insurance cards we have in large parts of Europe. So maybe if you use one of those card readers you can read a Bankstick?Best regards, ilmenator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashtv Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 somewhere on the net I have seen a page from a guy who uses Banksticks instead of Q-Cards for storing sounds for his Waldorf Q.I think he's here: http://synth.stromeko.net/DIY.htmlThe attached photo is from his setup.More info on smart cards:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7816http://www.cardwerk.com/smartcards/smartcard_standard_ISO7816.aspxBestSmash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Yes, that's the one!Best, ilmenator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcer10 Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Would it be possible to connect up the current banksticks to the PC somehow and read (convert) the sequences and songs from then to be edited in cubase etc, then exported back to the bankstick? I dont really want a different kind of bankstick, just the ability to read its contents on the PC and do something useful with it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAncientOne Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 This might be useful, though it's not free.http://www.microsys.ro/memplus.htmPhilips did a parallel port to I2C design, that used a few reistors and one TTL chip.The link below is to one on the 'Elektor' site - I know it works: I've got one, though I think you might need the hardware driver DLL under Windows 2000 or XP - I've not checked out the software for a while. I think it's the same as the Philips with a few add ons.http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=27&art=51085&PN=OnHope this helpsMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 A cool stuff (and not much difficult to do) could be a midibox program that copy a bankstick to another banckstick. (for backup purpose)Anyone interested ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAncientOne Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 I've just gone around in a complete circle and found out that there is a very cheap way of doing this: The JDM programmer will read them!All it needs is a small adapter to the Bankstick plug in.The IC-Prog software apparently supports it too. If anyone is interested, I'll try and work up a (vectorboard based) layout for a bankstick only reader/writerMike ('TheProf') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcer10 Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Hiya, im very interested in that. Is there a way to make use of the data extracted from them? I want to be able to take midi files from them if possible??? Guess a sequencer emulator might be needed?Cheers,John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBunsen Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I think there's some serious coding involved there. Conversion to SMF would be good.Still, even being able to save them, name them, then load them back into the Bankstick is cool ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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