[sdiy] Jim's further adventures with the AVR!

[Rob B]

grabbing a zillion knobs is kind of a pain too.. hehe..

I mean, look at the Shaltwerk.. It makes me want to do the thing that Lilly
Tomlin used to do when she played the operator from hell. Me pressing the
buttons "One ringy-dingy, two, ringy-dingy... Ah, screw this!"

I always liked the idea of 16 buttons which relate to steps, and you press
one, then all the current knobs become related to that step ie you would
only have a pitch knob, gate time, and a couple of controller knobs for
various controllers..

So, you would have 16 buttons and say, 5 encoders... Have it so that the
first press merely chooses that step (slow blinking led), pressing it again
toggles it from ON and OFF (ON being a solid on led) and the unselected
notes that do not play are led off.

Another cool thing that I have always wanted was a way to program multiple
steps.. Say, press step 2 and hold it, and then press step 9.. Then, all
those steps are selected are either changed to the last knob turned value,
or incremented that particular amount maybe by having some button in the on
position, called relative.. Seems simple enough..

Little lights and buttons everywhere are impressive, but sometimes annoying,
plus you and the customer both pay dearly for them.

As far as it goes, I am interested in this AVR chip... Anyone know how well
stocked they are? I remember there being profound supply problems with that
little bugger..

aim : cybrgzr0 <--last thing is a number
----- Original Message -----
From: patchell <patchell at silcom.com>
To: Brock Russell <brockr0 at home.com>
Cc: synth-diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Jim's further adventures with the AVR!


>     Pots and Knobs can be had at not too bad a price, but, if you want a
256
> event long sequencer, it does become unwieldy...
>