Elektron Musical Instruments

This is just a vote of gratitude to andrew sargeant for uploading the 
Reaktor ensembles. They are much appreciated!


Cheers, J.
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I found this on a review of the newish Korg MS2000...thought it relates:

>The MS2000R is, of course, the rackmount version of this beast. Although
>there is no keyboard and no real need for one, the 16 function buttons on
>the front of the unit can be switched into "Keyboard" mode in which they
>function as keys, mainly for demoing sounds while you're programming it.

What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the patch?

(or enter/exit "Keyboard" mode)

-N

> I found this on a review of the newish Korg MS2000...thought it relates:
> 
>> The MS2000R is, of course, the rackmount version of this beast. Although
>> there is no keyboard and no real need for one, the 16 function buttons on
>> the front of the unit can be switched into "Keyboard" mode in which they
>> function as keys, mainly for demoing sounds while you're programming it.
> 
> What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the patch?

I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.  I
think what I'm going to end up doing is build myself a little box that will
output a MIDI message to the sid when I press a button.  I could probably
even install it inside if i really wanted.

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Andrew Barthle
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Andrew Barthle wrote:

> > What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the patch?
> 
> I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.

The keypad can, but the kaypad decoder can't! :)

 //Daniel

> > > What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the patch?
> > I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.
> The keypad can, but the kaypad decoder can't! :)

thinking out loud...maybe an external PIC device: one button.  When you
press it, it sends this sequence at 31250 baud:
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
(80 24 7f plus start/stop bits = note on msg)

yeah, thats exactly what i had in mind, a PIC microcontroller.  i just didnt
know the MIDI signal to send.

> From: shifty@...
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> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:43:42 -0400 (EDT)
> To: elektron-users@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [elektron] Party ganze nacht
> 
>>>> What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the
>>>> patch?
>>> I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.
>> The keypad can, but the kaypad decoder can't! :)
> 
> thinking out loud...maybe an external PIC device: one button.  When you
> press it, it sends this sequence at 31250 baud:
> 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> (80 24 7f plus start/stop bits = note on msg)
> 
> 
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> yeah, thats exactly what i had in mind, a PIC microcontroller.  i just
> didnt know the MIDI signal to send.

Cool!  I suppose you'd want to send a note off on release, too...do you
have any PIC experience?  

-N

> >>>> What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the
> >>>> patch?
> >>> I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.
> >> The keypad can, but the kaypad decoder can't! :)
> > 
> > thinking out loud...maybe an external PIC device: one button.  When you
> > press it, it sends this sequence at 31250 baud:
> > 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> > (80 24 7f plus start/stop bits = note on msg)

i dont have any hands on experience, no.  but ive read a lot about them and
probably could figure something out.  also, next year i have a class called
embedded control, so im sure ill have a chance to work something out there.
perhaps as a final project (although that may be too simple).

> From: shifty@...
> Reply-To: elektron-users@egroups.com
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:13:13 -0400 (EDT)
> To: elektron-users@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [elektron] Party ganze nacht
> 
>> yeah, thats exactly what i had in mind, a PIC microcontroller.  i just
>> didnt know the MIDI signal to send.
> 
> Cool!  I suppose you'd want to send a note off on release, too...do you
> have any PIC experience?
> 
> -N
> 
> 
>>>>>> What if you pressed Up /\ and down \/ at the same time to trigger the
>>>>>> patch?
>>>>> I don't know, but I bet the keypad can only take one keypress at a time.
>>>> The keypad can, but the kaypad decoder can't! :)
>>> 
>>> thinking out loud...maybe an external PIC device: one button.  When you
>>> press it, it sends this sequence at 31250 baud:
>>> 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
>>> (80 24 7f plus start/stop bits = note on msg)
> 
> 
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>

> next
> year i have a class called
> embedded control, so im sure ill have a chance to
> work something out there.
> perhaps as a final project (although that may be too
> simple).

Maybe you could make two buttons to test arpeggiation.
That's a little more complex. :)

BTW, This is the first message I have sent to the
group despite being joined for months now. It just
so happens that this is something I would be 
interested in seeing happen. Oh and two buttons
really would be nice.

mark

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> Maybe you could make two buttons to test arpeggiation.
> That's a little more complex. :)

Ever seen the keyboard on the yamaha qy20?
(picture http://home.att.net/~clipclap/189.gif)  One of those
along the bottom of the SIDStation would be neat!

-N

>> Maybe you could make two buttons to test arpeggiation.
>> That's a little more complex. :)
> 
> Ever seen the keyboard on the yamaha qy20?
> (picture http://home.att.net/~clipclap/189.gif)  One of those
> along the bottom of the SIDStation would be neat!
> 
> -N

well, now that were dreaming in that direction, i have another idea, or
rather a dream.  i am also a member of the handheld music mailing list (also
on egroups/onelist) and there i have come across an interesting home made
synthesizer controlled by a palm pilot and also a game boy synthesizer (the
cartridge software accesses directly the sound chip, kinda like our
sidstations).  something similar would be interesting to have with the sid,
since i spend a lot of time away from home unable to make music.  that
sounds like a personal project to me, though.  i doubt that there is much of
a market for such a thing.

-- 
Andrew Barthle
apbarthle@...
apbarthle@...
bartha2@...

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Andrew Barthle wrote:

[handheld SidStation]

> something similar would be interesting to have with the sid, since i
> spend a lot of time away from home unable to make music.  that sounds
> like a personal project to me, though.  i doubt that there is much of
> a market for such a thing.

It's a cool idea, and I hope you'll try and realise it. One thing is that
it will use quite a lot of batteries, since the SID-chip is really hungry
for currency. I think it takes more than 50% of the currency required for
the SidStation!

One thing about the SidStation for doing a project like this is that it
uses only 5V in, and regulates it up to 12V for the SID. Not the other way
around which would have required at least 2.4 times more power.

 //Daniel