[XCSSA] Any Meeting Topics for next week? (19th)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Anyone else?

anyone?
	anyone?
		Bueller?

Tweeks

On Sunday 11 October 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> Well, I just got the synth working with all the lights, buttons,
> knobs, and LCD display...I'm not sure how stable that actually is but
> maybe it's good enough for show. It's not 100% done. Most of the stuff
> is cosmetic in nature (such as getting an amber LCD and some knobs)
> but it does work and is pretty awesome! Honestly, I'm probably not
> done with having to fiddle with the damn control surface wiring but
> we'll see.
>
> Someone on the MidiBox forums had a hugely smart idea of using a hot
> glue gun to glue the wires down a bit better, or keep them from moving
> at least and move the stress points away from the solder joints. That
> would be nice, except now I have wires soldered on both sides of the
> boards for the connectors so for me to do the glue thing, I'd have to
> probably rip stuff up and do it yet again. So, I'm going to see how
> well what I have holds.
>
> In any case, if it's still working by next Monday, I'll bring er in. I
> had hoped to have a full demo setup and ready to go. I might have
> something but it will probably be more like what I did last time I
> brought in my previous SID synth. The problem is that I have no mixer
> (passive or otherwise) to mix down the 4 stereo inputs easily. Without
> that capability, making a "live" demo is a bit difficult. Working on
> that though. I'll have a demo eventually, just probably not by the
> next meeting.
>
> At the very least I"m trying to figure out a way to jam some SID
> tunes. There's a Windows program for that but I haven't found one for
> Mac. It needs to support SID Station output (since the MidiBox can
> emulate that to play SID tunes). I may need to do something nasty and
> install Windows on a portable drive or something terrible like that :)
> If I have enough time to do it before the meeting, I will. The SIDs
> sound pretty kick-ass with the MidiBox I have to admit. Plus there's
> pretty LEDs for each of the channels :)
>
> Having said all that, I'm not sure I want to commit to anything just
> yet, because if I do, the damn synth will break on me again :) But my
> plan is to bring it in as long as it works and so far I'm on track.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:24 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
>
> wrote:
> > So... who's doing what next week?
> >
> > There have been rumors of synthesizers, microcontrollers Apple UNIX..
> >
> > Anything anyone wants to commit to?
> >
> > Tweeks
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