OK, I think I'm gonna get one of these, which pisses me the fuck off cuz I know I'm gonna spend hours making meticulous and ridiculous ANSI scrollerz and not music. Dammit. But I have a pretty elaborate MIDI setup and I look forward to the future firmwares and what I might be able to accomplish with this piece.
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Central Pennsyltucky
lol bleo!
Yeah, the "Ansi Midio" demo on youtube that rolls in a few seconds took me about 3 hours from drawing to midi. That's why I don't have dozens of videos up yet. But man, you feel good when it's done.
I have a "laptop free" module prototype running pretty well now, should be out in October & the current firmware works with it. (I use a Yamaha QY, but any midi source works except those crappy midiman plastic controllers) Next firmware is a PC "speaker synth" & LOGO visuals synth on the board right now.
(turtle down, left 40....... spirograph style vector graphics). Can't wait to see what you do with the ANSI!
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Geneva, NY
Wow, the future of this thing sounds exciting. Right now, my live setup is reliant on a lappy (VST what!?!? shhh) so the "laptop free" module isn't as important to me, but I have lots of external MIDI gear I'd love to try w/ it. MIDI guitar? Piggy tracker MIDI!?!?!
I'd also love to see a mode that operates the same as the original pocket vblank, just with MIDI as the incoming source instead of audio....
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Minneapolis
Dag, I need to polish off my BBS and host it, you're beating me to the punch. XD
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Geneva, NY
Hey, just thinking out loud here... how feasible would it be to code an ANSI->MIDI conversion tool? That would save some serious work.
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Central Pennsyltucky
bleo wrote:
I'd also love to see a mode that operates the same as the original pocket vblank, just with MIDI as the incoming source instead of audio....
Already in there! There's a visualizer mode that can just blow midi characters on the screen in real time with optional mirroring effects controlled by CCs.
An ansi -> midi tool is possible and probably easily written in processing or some such language, but it's not a perfect correlation. I had to squeeze out some of the less used characters and marry the foreground/background palettes, as ANSI is a larger data set than midi. The way I set it up, you'll pretty quickly memorize the character sets which makes drawing on the fly a bit less about translation & more about drawing.
I draw my design on graph paper, and just type the midi into a tracker line by line, like reading a book.
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Geneva, NY
Ordered and mega psyched.
I'll see if I can convince a coder friend to help my lazy/dummy ass out with the conversion tool. I know it would be much easier for me to work on the ANSI in pablodraw, sticking with the characters and palette limitations.
As for your graph paper idea... I have the vblank/jyk blip shirt, maybe I'll try transcribing that as my first experiment!