Here are some pictures of Alkex’s (Alex’s) extraordinary MIDIbox SID, called “Octopus” - enjoy!
He wrote:
Here are some photos of my latest Midibox sid/keyboard combo.
I had a totally computer independant sid synthesizer in mind, so I used this vintage toy piano as a base and hooked the two octaves of keys to a Din module.
I thought it could be fun to take a modular approach to this synth, therefore I customized the firmwire so that you can customize your sounds using patch leads from each of the LFOs or ENVELOPPES to any input (Osc pitch, filters, etc) just like on a real modular synth.
The Lcd displays wavetables, selected knob values, and preset management functions.
The horizontal Vu meter has Biclour leds, blue being a master output vu meter and red indicating “zigzag” lfo movement.
Hope you enjoy the pics and thankyou so much Thorsten for making such enjoyable projects a reality!
One important point I have to clarify as I didn’t explain properly to Thorsten:
The actual Sid core is 100% original Firmware, the whole control surface is a seperate midibox core with custom Mios application that I programmed in ASM from one of the downloadable examples.
I’m sure it would just be a matter of copy/paste if anyone would want the ideas in their box!
Great box man! And again, common question… how did you made panel and from what material? I also bought some old electric harmonica on flea market which i want to convert to MB SID similar to your design but without paching. As there is lot of space I am considering idea to stuck in my old PC.
your box is really interesting! could you maybe explain shortly how you recognise which patch cable is plugged where? (i mean in code - the patching is just another form of modulation matrix, right?)
