MB 16 with more Buttons?

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Hey,

i found a broken ISDN-phone on my sidewalk the other day and thougt about using it as a housing for a MB16. ;D

I mainly need some device to trigger samples and this phone has nice big Buttons which would be perfect, but: is it possible to have more buttons than only 8? I’ve seen on the site that there’s a MB64 firmware which could be used with a MB16. Would this be my choice?

Thanks for any help,

Simolch der Warst

P.S. I will finish my MB64seq in the next weeks and it’s gonna be, well , a little different… i’ll send some Photos as soon as possible

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Hi,

neither the original MB16 nor the MB1664 supports more than 8 buttons.

In theory it’s possible to change the MB16 firmware in order to drive a larger button matrix, but the SysEx dump structure hasn’t been prepared for such a modification. The simplest solution would be to assign the additional buttons to static Note events - I’ve no time for such enhancements, but as you know: the source codes are available on request… :wink:

Best Regards, Thorsten.