MIDI programmer

[Thomas Hudson]

Zorin sells a 68HC11-based MIDI controller board that looks ripe
for such projects. See
http://www.zorinco.com/cgi-bin/zsc.pl?!cart!/page=giz.html
and
http://www.zorinco.com/ModCon.html

Thomas



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl]On Behalf Of bert mouwen
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 6:09 PM
> To: boldman at interplanet.it
> Cc: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: Re: MIDI programmer
>
>
> boldman at interplanet.it wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi everybody, is there any DIY project for a midi device which assign a
> > slider or a pot to any of the 128 possible midi controlled parameter.
>
> Probably you hit a hot item here (my breath almost gets out of control
> ;)) for a lot of people who stepped into this list during the last
> months, looking for DIY-synth-projects and then discovered the most
> projects discussed are in the analogue domain.
> Sometimes I wonder if it would't be better to have a splitting up in
> ADIY and DDIY. But from correspondence with some enthousiast analogue
> stuff DIY's I get the feeling they're not afraid of digital
> stuff as well. As long as that stays this way and the analogue-minded
> folks don't get irritated by digital items, personally I would prefer to
> keep it just as it is: One list.
>
> about your programmer idea:
> in the first place desinging a controller-device wouldn't be the hardest
> part I think, but after that you must have a midi-input to fed your
> synth. In the most cases this would imediately mean that you have to
> build a merger also. And that's different cake as far as I know.
>
> But the general idea is something that's keeping my mind busy for a long
> time.
> The way to build these kind of things in general however is programming
> eproms or things like that. And most of the time some A/D and or D/A
> conversion will be needed.
> I realy would be glad to find some place on the internet where diy-sets
> are offered with preprogrammed modules for things like you are proposing
> in your message, and all other kind of stuff you can find in boxes made
> by philip rees, anatek and so on.
>
> Otherwise:
> can someone tell me about the most straight forward and affordable set of
> tools on the market to make these eproms by yourself? (as far as i'm
> concerned, using a pc in programming-process is not a problem).
>
> > HHHHmmmmm, it should work in both modes: handshaking, one way only.
>
> This I don't understand. Talking about sysex?
>
> > Silly idea?
>
> Not to  me.
>
> > ciao
>
> grtz. bert.
>
>