napierzaza Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 How does one determine how many banksticks to use? I made an FM and it might eventually work. I'm willing to put up to 8 in, but how many will I actually use? I guess as a starter how much space do the presets and stuff take up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 Every BankStick is capable of storing 16 (MIDIbox64) or 32 (MIDIbox16E) or 128 (MIDIbox64SEQ, MIDIbox SID and MIDIbox FM) different setups. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napierzaza Posted April 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 Ah, so really only one I'm guessing. Unless the default pre-prepared stuff is over 100 already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 There are 128 preset paches available at the MBFM-download-section.I would recommend you to use as much BankSticks as possible.They aren't expensive and you can't have too much space for additional paches.Do you still remember what they said about the first 1GB hdds?"you will never manage to get it full" ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Do you still remember what they said about the first 1GB hdds?"you will never manage to get it full"Yeah, that is funny nowdays. ;DI rememer my first HDD was 1.2GB and i tought that way too, but there was no mp3 then and no divx.SLP is right... you cannot have too much memory. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napierzaza Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 I read the whole bankstick page but am somewhat unsure. If I plugged 3 in series then it would format them all and configure them as 1,2,3 automatically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Depending on the manufacturer of the chip, there are either 2 or 3 pinswhich are used to give the chip a certain number.you can connect each pin either to ground or to +5V.with this way you are able to give up to 8 (3 adress pins, 2³) or4 (2 adress pins, 2²) BankSticks a different number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 You specify which is bankstick 1 2 and 3 by the way you wire them.. Check out the schematic :)Edit: What SLP said ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napierzaza Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Ooops, there's only a low-res version of the schematic, I didn't see different pins were high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napierzaza Posted April 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Okay, but these don't act as hard drives correct? How do I load the (3) preset files onto the eeprom without saving over the other ones? What is the Bankstick Syx file that comes with the FM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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