Finally, someone brought up what is truly important at the moment. And
several others have alluded to it. HARDWARE. The software can be modified
down the line, although the percentage of us that can modify the firmware
will dwindle as the number of MOTM owners increases. But it only takes one
or a few people to do that and make it available to all other DoMOAS owners.
Well, we need to be concerned about what features we want Paul to include in
the hardware. This is the hard part to change later on. Some of the
decisions will be dictated my simplicity of design and some will be dictated
by the abilities and limitations of the processor itself. Questions to be
asking and suggesting (and justifying) answers to:
How many outputs?
How can those outputs be configured?
Switches?
Buttons?
LEDs?
Knobs? Size? Number? Layout?
Inputs?
MIDI I/O?
Considerations for PSU?
Considerations for stand-alone units?
Connectors to multiple DoMOASes?
I know most of this has been hit on at one point or another. And the
functionality we desire to be included in the firmware will have to be taken
in to consideration when making hardware decisions.
Enough rambling...
--Shemp
> From: Christopher Jeris <cjeris@...>
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Dave Bradley wrote:
> > Me, I like a pushbutton for each stage that sets it active. Then you can
> > remove the clock and manually set each stage for tuning, or run
> the clock
> > and play with the buttons to modify the sequence in real time.
> > > From: "David Bivins" <david@...>
> > > I'd also like to throw in my vote for a manual step button. I
> > > don't want to have to run the sequence slowly to alter voltages!
> Maybe it depends on how willing each of us is to write our own firmware?
> The functionality provided actually matters less to me than the fact that
> the panel controls are there, since it's a lot easier for me to hack up a
> little code than to punch some extra holes in the panel! Thus, I would
> like a pair of buttons with LEDs next to each stage pot, probably one for
> `Activate' and one for an extra `Gate' row associated to that `CV/Gate`
> row. But the important thing is not what they do but that the mix of
> stuff to play with is enough to support all the features we want.
> just got the Intel 51-series architecture manual,