Chip maestro and midi controller (Page 3 of 8)

How about you hire Neil.. Neil how much would you ballpark the cost to add this feature? Be liberal.

Then a scene effort can work on building a smart kickstarter around it. Id imagine youd want to have:
- stickers and other giveaways
- Exclusive music
- Carts
- Interfaces
- Super rare collectibles
- Submit a sample?
- ETC

I think the samples in Midines are better than the stock samples in LSDJ, so maybe its a problem with dmc playback realities versus any problems with the source material themselves. Its not cd quality for sure.

So...
How much do neil value is time making a midines lookalike with better samples and user firendly interface?Who can help him in doing so?
How much do they value their time?
Can someone or many people live from making this thingy?
That would tell us a little bit about how much money we must gather to make this project a possibility...
Isn't it possible to change a chip maestro and make it better?

And still, nobody answered my questions in my first 3 posts... mpc 500 to chip maestro? utility to keep a kp3 beside the mpc500.... an alternative to midines and chipmaestro... etc etc etc

But I love were this is going. If I can be of help, just ask

Ness

Ness, I think this whole discussion actually answers your third question pretty effectively. As for your first question, yes, the MPC500 SHOULD be able to sequence your Maestro, or anything hat accepts MIDI sequences, but as discussed, the Maestro's functionality is just generally questionable, and you'll probably have the same issues that everybody else is having trying to control it with other devices.

I have been working on an Arduino shield for MIDI to NES / Famicom that will work with batsly's family midi ROM - the hardware is ready to go, life has just gotten in the way of finding the time to sit down and write the code:

...the shield has a MIDI IN socket and circuitry (1n914 Diode / 6n138 Optoisolator / 1x220Ω & 1x270Ω resistors) and a DB15 socket for connection to the Famicom expansion port (or for NES, add an expansion port to your NES like so, or make your own DB15 to NES controller cable, or connect through the DB15 plug on an ENIO) - the shield also has a 4021 shift register on board, so the actual code to communicate with the NES would be really simple, there is no need to try and make the Arduino struggle to match the exact timing of the NES controller port, all you have to do is set the eight bits on the shift register after every latch and just let the 4021 do its thing!

So, for compatibility with family midi, just take the standard Arduino MIDI Library, read in each byte of MIDI, and put the eight bits of that byte on to the eight Arduino pins connected to the shift register, then rinse and repeat on every latch!

This shield could just as easily act like a NES controller the way MCTRL does... there are so many possibilities! I've also found room for a Wii Nunchuk connector, so the shield could read in the Nunchuk buttons and then send them out as NES control pad button presses, or read the Nunchuk tilt data and emulate an Arkanoid paddle, or send MIDI continuous controller data, or whatever! With the extra interfacing you get through the NES expansion port as compared to the controller port, there are a lot more possibilities! Because of the potential for so many 'modes' I've also put 3 dip switches on board to allow for code that will read the state of the switches and change mode accordingly (and there is an RGB LED on board wired directly to the dip switches for quick and easy representation of the selected mode by color).

Anyway, the hardware side is done, and I can have these made for something like $8 each, just haven't made myself sit down and write the code yet... any volunteers? Any serious volunteers?

I have one major and a couple minor questions to you Jazz. Will you have to desolder or deconstruct the Midines in order to properly rip the rom and make this clone happen?

I want to preface this next statement with the request that no one get there hopes up just yet based on my next statements. but I have two Midines carts and would possibly, I repeat, possibly contribute one if I could get my cart back in the same working condition that it was originally.

My supplementary questions are:
How long would be your best guess on the time it would take? I understand you won't definitively know till you have your hands on it.
And also if I lend my cart could I get a free clone? :3

You guys try to keep in mind that I want to help, but I'm really attached to my midines carts and have invested some serious money in them especially considering the first time I tried to buy one was from the jerk face wayfar himself. So I'm naturally going to be very iffy about giving one away for a while, even if it's for science. So for now I just want the details on how healthy the donor cart will be after all the surgery is over.