I'm trying to send MIDI notes from FL to the Gameboy (mGB or LSDJ). That way I can visually construct the songs in FL like I'm familiar with but still use the original hardware.
1 Jun 4, 2013 5:19 pm
Re: Arduinoboy not getting along with FL Studio (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
2 Jun 4, 2013 5:09 pm
Re: Arduinoboy not getting along with FL Studio (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I just made a MIDI out channel, made a simple pattern, and pushed play. The output in the settings seems fine, but I don't have much experience with MIDI. Is there something special I should be putting into the channel, bank, port, or patch?
3 Jun 4, 2013 4:33 pm
Topic: Arduinoboy not getting along with FL Studio (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I've done a bit of songwriting in LSDJ and a helluva lot of work in FL Studio so after putting together my Arduinoboy, I thought I might marry the two. My problem is that I cannot, for the life of me, get FL Studio to send anything recognizable to my Game Boy. The Arduinoboy works fine with a MIDI keyboard, but not with FL Studio. I'm getting a MIDI signal coming out of my USB-MIDI adapter, but I'm missing something that is probably painfully obvious. Does anyone here have experience with this setup and can tell me what I'm doing wrong? What are the settings that you use with your MIDI out channel that communicate with the Game Boy?
4 Jun 4, 2012 1:51 am
Re: xxxxxxxxxx (42 replies, posted in General Discussion)
One time, I took about 10 water damaged NES cartridges and put harmonicas in them. Those things sold in a few hours at a flea market in Philly. I guess people just really like little plastic things that remind them of their childhood?
5 May 30, 2012 2:19 am
Re: Internal ArduinoBoy Kit Preorder - Uncommon Electronics (108 replies, posted in Trading Post)
I have a MidiNES and a few working NES's that I wouldn't mind parting with. This looks fantastic. We should talk.
6 May 22, 2012 12:27 pm
Re: Adding External Controls to a DMG (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
What kind of latency problems are there with the keyboard? I'm really just looking to be able to control the songs realtime so I only need a few buttons that work well.
That's the pinout I was looking for! Do you have any kind of tutorial written up about how one would go about using that information to hook up an external controller?
7 May 21, 2012 11:50 pm
Re: Adding External Controls to a DMG (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Good call! Modifying an LSDJ keyboard into a foot pedal would mean I wouldn't have to cut apart my DMG anymore and just use the link port. That could work better than my original plan.
8 May 21, 2012 10:43 pm
Re: Adding External Controls to a DMG (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Oh hey, that IS Animal Style's mod! Another good Philly fella.
9 May 21, 2012 10:41 pm
Re: Adding External Controls to a DMG (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Yeah. Animal Style has a mod like that. I'm looking for a mod that will still let me use the buttons on the DMG. I think Nex had a way of wiring into where the ribbon is that connects the two pieces. I could be wrong. It's been a while!
10 May 21, 2012 10:16 pm
Topic: Adding External Controls to a DMG (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Hey friends. A couple of years ago, I was really into modifying my Game Boys and whatnot. I've done a few projects, but I had to put them (as well as my songwriting) on hold when I went into grad school. Now that I'm out, I was hoping to look through the 8bc archives and grab the helpful hints, diagrams, and tutorials that folks had left me, but it seems that it's all been down for some time. I have a few of the projects saved on my hard drive except for the one that I want to do the most. I want to be able to hook my DMG into an external controller so that I can build a foot pedal to dynamically control my songs as I play them. I play with guitars and keyboards as well, so it would be really helpful to be able to cut the LSDJ track, lengthen certain sections, and be able to make each performance different. Does anyone know how I would go about doing that without completely destroying the DMG's normal controls?