hello

[Bob_The_Fish]

just wanted to say hello since I've never posted on this forum before.

I bought some boards from SmashTV a couple days ago and am looking forward to building a midibox when they get here 'cause the features are mighty impressive.  I hope to build a 64e to begin with and to get a hang of the mios and then build a seq or two... I have a decent amount of experience with electronics as I am a tech at a company that makes HD routers and such called nVison http://www.nvision.tv/ link if you wanna see what I mean, thus most of this stuff is familair to me, circuit debugging, troubleshooting, burning pics, proms, eeproms, etc... I also happen to be the power supply tech so I might be able to offer advice to people with psu questions cause I spend a lot of time fixing and repairing all our different varieties of power supplies at my work.  Hopefully, after getting my feet wet in midibox for a bit I'll be able to start contributing to this forum and/or wiki for the good of all... I also have a few good ideas I might try to implement and share with other people... e3 buttons... I think they're called smartbuttons or something... they're a 1"x1" button with a full color rgb backlight and a lcd screen in them, only have one pin for data and one for clock, plus power and switch contacts... all the drivers are ics inside the button so it you just send it serial data for color and what the lcd says.  hmm... i gotta look these up

anyway after the season when I have some to spare I'll prolly throw some money at tk 'cause I think he deserves it.

-Ry

[stryd_one]

Welcome to the board mate :)

Look forward to seeing the finished products!

[Bob_The_Fish]

here we go

http://www.nvision.tv/doc/db/pics/1161885401_3856.f_doc_pdf.pdf

if you zoom in on the picture of the fr9640 you can see that the buttons can be any color and have custom text or graphics on the lcds... I know from troubleshooting these frames that the circuit to wire up all these buttons like that is super simple and that you could probably link up arrays much larger than what we have on this panel... actually I've seen one of our "competitors" do it so I know it's possible.  Thus your buttons could display status and type of tracks by color and display could be the normal section of a seq display for each track and menus could either be dispersed across the 16 buttons (or 64 buttons, for the brave and large pocketed 20 dollars a button) or on a seperate small lcd like one 2x20

essentially, I hope to make a midibox seq with only 16 buttons and 17 rotary encoders... maybe a few more buttons or something but w/e I haven't thought it all the way through yet... I still have to build my 64e and figure out where to get these smartbuttons from since I can NOT find them anywhere on the internet I just know they've got a logo on their label that looks like a cube with E³ on it... like e cubed or something like that... the engineers at my work call them smartbuttons.

I think I should go to bed.

-Ry

...excited to be here.

[Bob_The_Fish]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=JLMCSCLIPSHW&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=423500

...that's the "competitors" example of these buttons... still don't know where to get them. notice this shows how they can display graphics and not just text.

[Bob_The_Fish]

http://www.compumusic.com/p215487.htm

looks like another company's messing with these buttons too.. this one lets you zoom in REAL close... so close it hurts... I guess I could just ask someone at my work where we get them... but damn those things are rad I just want the datasheet

[Bob_The_Fish]

it's almost so obvious of a name I wanna slap myself

screen keys

http://www.screenkeys.com/

no I can rest

[Kev]

welcome

the ScreenKeys look great

perfect for vision switchers and routers

situations where the mode of operation can change substantialy and the key's operations can change

cost and difficulty to program the screens may make it a little over the top for a simple midi controller

but

once past those hurdles, I can see that a seq and a controller, all in one could make good use of a large matrix of these things

individual cost ?

nVision have some good gear and one of your enineers came out to Australia and gave some training sessions on digital signals

I have a couple of versions of ...  " The Book "