769 Reply by low-gain

(174 replies, posted in Past Events)

Nullsleep wrote:

Thanks, Logan.  Got it and replied.

Roger.

Cant check till i get home from work. wink

over and out.

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770 Reply by low-gain

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Jeremiah, Emailed you regarding booking.

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771 Reply by low-gain

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godinpants wrote:

So will this be a PCB alone deal? or will you be distributing PCB + components?
Also will the GP2X connection being mentioned be a stock feature? or something requiring an extra module?


The GP2X connection at the moment is the original Piggy=>Midi available at kitsch-bent's site..  and a midi cable plugged into the midi thru box project.


as for the project kit.

It will include all components accept an enclosure. So all you'll have to do is think of a clever enclosure for it, assemble the PCB, install the panel components and wire it up! smile You'll also have to provide your own power supply (9-12Vdc).

The tutorial for building this will be an extremely detailed PDF document.

The PCB will be 2"x 4" in size.

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772 Reply by low-gain

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bleo wrote:

I dunno, you mentioned noise when you explained the negatives of having those 4 extra ports being unused so I threw that out there in my examples of possible things that could be bad about sending 4 merged signals into a thru.

/me shrugs

So you're saying it should be all good?

it should be all good. wink

I'm not gunna try to explain the noise thing w/o going into a long detailed tangent with pictures and crap of how the buffer IC's work.
hehe

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773 Reply by low-gain

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bleo wrote:

I've got a 4x1 Midi Solutions QudraMerge.  You see any issues with feeding the merged signal into this thru for massive mergification?  Like noise, lost data, etc?



Noise?

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774 Reply by low-gain

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Damn. I wish i had setups like you guys.. >_< i can't even take a picture of mine lol it's too much of a mess.
not to mention...photographs can't possibly be enough to cover the amount of crap, yes, crap i have.
lol

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775 Reply by low-gain

(99 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Got traces laid out on the PCB after work today. Just need to clean up the silkscreen layer a bit and i can create the Gerbers for manufacturing.

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776 Reply by low-gain

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you'd have more fun w/ the KP3
Dedicated sample buttons allows for layered loops. smile
like a 4 track looper

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777 Reply by low-gain

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herr_prof wrote:
low-gain wrote:

i dont see why people have such a big issue w/ the gp2x.

GP2x vs PSP THROWDOWN

1. Battery Life + sleep mode so you'll never lose a project to bad batteries again.
2. Psp have much better audio
3. You can find psps anywhere so more gig reliable.
4. A real D-pad. (I dont actually care about this but some do)
5. Since its a psp, you can run a program like pspseq and make pig sample fodder on the go. You can also hack together a wav recorder.. and it has wifi access!

Other than that i LIKE the glp2x.. i just think it would be better for midi users to have more options.

Your opinions have been noted. Thanks

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778 Reply by low-gain

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e.s.c. wrote:
herr_prof wrote:

or better let to let marc know!

thats the hard part, is it software or hardware that is the issue? ill recreate the crashing save, so i can send it to whoever can help look into it...may be that i was just trying to cram too much midicc out at once smile

technically it's all software. unless what ever it is you're doing is literally taxing the hardware... but most of the time it's coding issues. Things can be tightened up to clear up the processing going on.

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779 Reply by low-gain

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e.s.c. wrote:

one thing that ive noticed with the gp2x that is a little anoying is how loose the serial connection is, though i doubt using mini usb would be an improvement for connection stability...besdies that, the only issues ive run into with gp2x & piggy->midi was that one track i wrote seemed to crash the piggy->midi (or its data conenction at least) by having i think 5-6 tables running at once on 4-5 channels of midi..this is easily solved by unplugging and replugged the piggy->midi though, so no big deal..i rewrote the structure so fewer of the channels were changing chains at the same time and the crashing stopped


That might be a good thing to let firestARTer know.

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780 Reply by low-gain

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not sure whats worse. the fact that this kid keep singing about buritto's or the fact that his backup dancers are like... way to young to be little ghetto huchies for a rap video. .

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781 Reply by low-gain

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i see them on ebay all the time for like $70-100

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782 Reply by low-gain

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Theta_Frost wrote:

I can dig this!  I just think we need to change all this GP2X business to PSP... wink


i dont see why people have such a big issue w/ the gp2x.

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783 Reply by low-gain

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bleo wrote:

No, I know what a MIDI thru does, I just don't get the part about the jumper to make it drop down to 1x8.  Why disable 4 ports? Or would they become some sort of magical port after that... like MERGE?


ooooh..

Well the jumper is simply to simply cut signal going to the buffers and set them to a "hi" position. there are a couple of buffers that are on the last bank of 4 midi out's that are apart of the bank before it and so typically it's not good practice to just leave them sitting there idle. it can cause noise issues or instability issues (with regard to the rest of the package)... So when the jumper is installed to just the 1x8 mode then the inputs on the remaining 4 banks of buffers get a +5V sent to them to keep them from running idle.. And you simply leave their outputs (including resistors) disconnected (or simply, they become "DNS/DoNotStuff"). It will all be explained in the documentation pdf.

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784 Reply by low-gain

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bleo wrote:

OK, school me: why would one want to make a 1X12 thru 1X8?


as in.. why would anyone need such a device?

Because not all midi devices have Midi Thru jacks.

We'll use Piggy as an example:

you have 1 midi output.. but 8 midi channels to take advantage of (or 16 via channel switching)

Lets say you have 8 synths that have midi but aren't Multi-Timbral (meaning they can't have more than 1 track being sequenced at a time).
Perfect example.. Roland Juno-106. Kick ass synth. Polyphonic, but not Multi-Timbral. And i dont think the concept of Midi Thru was
established quite yet.



1st question... What is a Midi Thru? (answer copied from wiki)

"MIDI-THRU ports started to be added to MIDI-compatible equipment soon after the introduction of MIDI, in order to improve performance. The MIDI-THRU port avoids the aforementioned retransmission delay by linking the MIDI-THRU port to the MIDI-IN socket almost directly. The difference between the MIDI-OUT and MIDI-THRU ports is that data coming from the MIDI-OUT port has been generated on the device containing that port. Data that comes out of a device's MIDI-THRU port, however, is an exact duplicate of the data received at the MIDI-IN port.

Such chaining together of instruments via MIDI-THRU ports is unnecessary with the use of MIDI "patch bay," "mult" or "Thru" modules consisting of a MIDI-IN connector and multiple MIDI-OUT connectors to which multiple instruments are connected. Some equipment has the ability to merge MIDI messages into one stream, but this is a specialized function and is not universal to all equipment. MIDI Thru Boxes clean up any skewing of MIDI data bits that might occur at the input stage. MIDI Merger boxes merge all MIDI messages appearing at either of its two inputs to its output, which allows a musician to plug in several MIDI controllers"


To sum it all up...

It basically multiplies the number of "midi out's" on what ever device you plug it into(in this case,piggy on gp2x) so that you can use more than midi controllable device.


the 1x12 part is cool because if you have 8 synths plugged in you can plug 4 more on to sync to midi clock.
So thats 12 devices slaving to the gp2x.. which is pretty sick in my opinion.

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