Elektron Musical Instruments

Okay, I'm really working on this now.  I finally have a little time 
to putz with it, so hopefully we'll see something soon.

The bad news is, it doesn't look like the MIDI Sysex Implementation 
Spec allows you to change the Tables (if you use them in a sound) 
without sending a patch update to the SIDStation, which of course 
overwrites the existing patch...

Anyway, these are the things I plan on implementing:

Full SYSEX Dump/Receive Caps with Save/Load ability
Realtime Update/Send for all controlable Knobs & Params
SIDStation-like GUI (yellow tipped knobs with actual value overlay 
text)
Mouse/Keyboard controlable keys (play the SID from the PC)
Table Editor

Is there anything else people would like to see?  It's going to run 
on the Windows9x/2000/Me/XP Platforms (although I'll need help 
testing on everything but Win98 since that's what I use).  Sorry Mac 
users!  :(

-pjf

> Is there anything else people would like to see?  

Consider a modular coding technique and open source
software, so *you don't have to convert it to Mac/GNU/Linux*.
Someone else can if they get the notion to.

> It's going to run 
> on the Windows9x/2000/Me/XP Platforms (although I'll need help 
> testing on everything but Win98 since that's what I use).  Sorry Mac 
> users!  :(

PAUL - YOUR A F***IN' LEGEND!!!

> Is there anything else people would like to see?  It's going to run 
> on the Windows9x/2000/Me/XP Platforms (although I'll need help 
> testing on everything but Win98 since that's what I use). 

How about a way to trigger the Sidstation from the GUI. Like a mini 
onscreen keyboard or simple sequencer. Or better yet, the ablilty to 
use the mouse like a theremin on an X Y axsis!

--- In elektron-users@y..., "Charlie Malone" <charlie.malone@a...> 
wrote:
> How about a way to trigger the Sidstation from the GUI. Like a mini 
> onscreen keyboard or simple sequencer. Or better yet, the ablilty 
to 
> use the mouse like a theremin on an X Y axsis!


Yeah, I plan on putting a "virtual keyboard" as part of the GUI.  The 
Theremin idea is neat.  We'll see how much time I have.  I'd rather 
include that in a later version and get a working "Bare-bones" editor 
out to people first though.

Other notes: Yes it will be Open Source, although because it's going 
to be a Win32 app, it will use the winmm MIDI functions and MFC, so 
whoever ports it will have to redo the interface and MIDI 
functionality.  There will be knobs for parameters we'd all like to 
tweak, like resonance.  I'd like to shove as many knobs as possible 
on screen, actually.  I plan on having the actual values of the knobs 
display in the window toolbar, as well as having an optional 
onmouseover info popup.  I probably will not do any digitization or 
speech synthesis attempts or even research in the near future.  I'll 
have to look at the ASID interface, as that may be a better way of 
directly controlling the chip for speech stuff, but that's a ways off.

With luck, I'll have the raw MIDI interface stuff done by next week, 
and the GUI should be the next hardest part.  Everything else is just 
going to be data pushing and debugging.  :)

Thanks for the feedback and interest.

-pjf

Anyone know if something came of this?

--
Mikael Altemark

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Paul J. Furio" <pjf@...> wrote:

>
> Okay, I'm really working on this now.  I finally have a little time 
> to putz with it, so hopefully we'll see something soon.
> 
> The bad news is, it doesn't look like the MIDI Sysex Implementation 
> Spec allows you to change the Tables (if you use them in a sound) 
> without sending a patch update to the SIDStation, which of course 
> overwrites the existing patch...
> 
> Anyway, these are the things I plan on implementing:
> 
> Full SYSEX Dump/Receive Caps with Save/Load ability
> Realtime Update/Send for all controlable Knobs & Params
> SIDStation-like GUI (yellow tipped knobs with actual value overlay 
> text)
> Mouse/Keyboard controlable keys (play the SID from the PC)
> Table Editor
> 
> Is there anything else people would like to see?  It's going to run 
> on the Windows9x/2000/Me/XP Platforms (although I'll need help 
> testing on everything but Win98 since that's what I use).  Sorry Mac 
> users!  :(
> 
> -pjf
>