Bankstick question

[napierzaza]

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?

[SLP]

Every BankStick is capable of storing 16 (MIDIbox64) or 32 (MIDIbox16E) or 128 (MIDIbox64SEQ, MIDIbox SID and MIDIbox FM) different setups.

;)

[napierzaza]

Ah, so really only one I'm guessing. Unless the default pre-prepared stuff is over 100 already.

[SLP]

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"

;)

[Sasha]

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.  ;D

I 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.  ;)

[napierzaza]

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?

[SLP]

Depending on the manufacturer of the chip, there are either 2 or 3 pins

which 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) or

4 (2 adress pins, 2²) BankSticks a different number.

[stryd_one]

You specify which is bankstick 1 2 and 3 by the way you wire them.. Check out the schematic :)

Edit: What SLP said ;)

[napierzaza]

Ooops, there's only a low-res version of the schematic, I didn't see different pins were high.

[napierzaza]

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?