http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ Kit & Project discussion en Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/kit_midi-on-osx-1063#post-20 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:39:32 +0000 Wil 20@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>Once again MAC has sabotaged it's relationship with Java.<br /> For those poor soles trying to get through life on the newest Snow Leopard, you're probably already used to the Terminal fixes! </p> <p>It turns out that Java's Serial Library is broken in Java 6 that was installed with this update. you'll need to revert your Java version. </p> <p>Here's a link to a great tutorial on exactly how to do it:<br /> <a href="http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard</a><br /> Start at "Workaround for connection problem"</p> <p>This is verified here at my house, but was not needed on my 10.6.1 Hackintosh. </p> http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/avr-source-code-available#post-105 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:59:57 +0000 dbetz 105@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>Is the AVR source code available for the YM_MINI synth? </p> http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/midi-board-for-the-ym-synth#post-39 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:31:18 +0000 rumpelfilter 39@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>I remember reading that you chose the FTDI interface so adding a midi board would be easy. Do you have any information regarding this. I would be willing to build me a midi interface of some kind, if I had some schematics or something to start from... having to use the usb of the computer is not always the most convenient solution... </p> http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/ym-mini-synth-first-impression-and-some-questions#post-31 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:56:27 +0000 rumpelfilter 31@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>Assembled the kit yesterday and have been playing around in the evening. So far I must say it's really a fun little thing to play with, simple yet with it's unique sound! I say it's worth every cent! Thanks a lot Wil! Brilliant work you have made with this kit! Makes me want to get all your other kits as well, as soon as I have some money (the bliptronome is the most tempting right now, though I already have a lauchpad).</p> <p>Overall interaction with the device is easy once you've gone through the manual, of course adding a control surface would be great, but the platform seems open and hackable enough to enable me to do it myself (once I know how to do these kind of things :) )</p> <p>Right now there is two things I have to ask:<br /> - portamento: would be nice if one could have some sort of portamento added to it, would this be feasible? Could the Atmel handle that?<br /> - vst control plugin: I am thinking of making a simple control plugin to make controlling the device a bit easier than manually entering CC data in the lanes. Something like those that have been made for the MSSIAH. I wonder if synthedit could be an option... but I've never used it, I only know the MSSIAH vsts have been made with synthedit...<br /> Of course I still wonder if a plugin like that would really make sense... since the chip has only few parameters, there's no real need of storing presets. </p> http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/cant-get-envelope-to-work#post-26 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:53:45 +0000 Eric 26@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>Hi! Thanks for putting the YM_MINI kit out there. I was surprisingly able to assemble it without destroying it. It was a bit of a pain to get the Java stuff worked out in OS X, but once I get that taken care of I was able to get everything working in Ableton Live. It's pretty cool!</p> <p>The one thing I can't figure out is how to get the envelopes to work. I've been able to trigger the chip with MIDI notation (and switch between L/R/noise etc with different MIDI channels) but I'm kind of confused about the CC stuff. I was able to get CC 28 working for the noise channel, but nothing else. As I try to fiddle with CC 22-27 for the envelope, nothing seems to happen. In Live I've just been using a MIDI clip and the clip's MIDI Ctrl envelope to change the CC's. Any help with this? Thanks! </p> http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/topic/grunge-sound-how-to#post-21 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:16:26 +0000 Wil 21@http://www.straytechnologies.com/forum/ <p>In my video, I was recording live from an Oxygen8, so only one channel at a time.<br /> The crunchy noise in there is from the "buzz filter." It works like this:<br /> ex: for channel1 (squarewave A - mono)...<br /> CC22 &gt; 64 (ex: 90)<br /> CC25 = 0 (rough envelope very small)<br /> CC27 between 64 and 72 (These are different waveforms based on the datasheet "envelope shape")<br /> while playing a noteOn, twiddle CCCC26 between 1 &amp; 18<br /> There's lots of different ways to do this.. CC27 @ 80 &amp; around 118 make an interesting deeper grunge, etc.. CC27@ 100 sounds like high FM synth noise.<br /> -enjoy! </p>