[sdiy] Two Nuts & Volts articles from last year

[Eric Brombaugh]

I picked up the August 2005 N&Vat a used bookstore last week (Yay 
Bookmans!) and I can give a quick summary of the MIDI-nator article:

He's using a PIC18F2455 (built-in USB and UART) to build a USB-MIDI 
interface. It's configured as a USB audio device class with the MIDI 
subclass, so Mac OS X and WinXP should automatically use their existing 
drivers to handle it (meaning you wouldn't need to write any OS-level 
USB drivers for it).

There is a fair amount of background on MIDI and USB, but the source is 
not included in the print article and is available on the N&V website 
(www.nutsvolts.com/ftp/index.htm).

I'd guess that unless you already have the parts handy, it's cheaper 
just to buy an m-audio MIDISport UNO. You'd end up with the same 
functionality - just fewer LEDs.

Frankly I'd be more interested in USB-CV interfaces, and while this 
article could be used as a starting point for that there are already 
plenty of projects like that on the web.

Eric

Gabriel Lindeborg wrote:
> Hi Pete!
>
> Thanks for the advice, but are those two articles that good, that they 
> would be worth the 15$ that would cost me w. postage to Sweden?
> I rather hoped for someone having the articles and sharing them as 
> PDFs or something with me...
>
> //Gabbe
>
> Pete wrote:
>>  You can order back issues from the Nuts and Volts website. Check it 
>> out.
>>
>> pete
>>
>> On 2/16/06, *gabriel at lindeborg.org <mailto:gabriel at lindeborg.org>* 
>> <gabriel at lindeborg.org <mailto:gabriel at lindeborg.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello fellow SDIYers!
>>
>>     I'm trying to get hold of two articles from last years Nuts & Volts
>>     magazines. The first is "The MIDI-nator" by Robert Lang from the 
>> August
>>     issue and second is the "Generating Analog Waves From Digital
>>     Signals" by
>>     Gerard Fonte from the September issue.
>>     The magazines seems impossible to find in Scandinavia where I live.
>>     So please, if someone could take their issues to a scanner and 
>> make me
>>     happy man, please do so...
>>
>>     //Gabbe of Sweden
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
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