W O W!!! Just Fantastic.
(speechless ATM) Yogi
Great work! 
Sounds very nice!
Many greets,
Peter
Sounds fantastic!
Now we need Jason to step up and Sammich this up 
Amazing work!
I apologize for my quietness recently, I’ve been spending basically all my free time on this synth, and I haven’t gotten a chance to do much documentation. The hardware is due in less than a week, so I’ve been under a lot of pressure!
Here is the front panel PCB with all 600+ LEDs on. (Actually, they’re not quite all on, due to another part of the software I forgot to disable while running this test–but the other red and green LEDs in the central matrix do work).
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oh hell no.
Not pulling any punches are we?
Very amazing work 8) And I’ve noticed your uploads to the SVN. Just fantastic.
Just last week I got boards from Smash, can’t wait to start but a little time limited atm.
Yogi
a w e s o m e
Very impressive work, keep it up, man!
Many greets,
Peter
YEAAAAH!
6 hours ago, Altitude said:
oh hell no.
What’s a-matter, you… chicken…?
Not sure if this will make you feel any better, but it only took me about 20 hours to assemble and bring up the front panel board.
If (when?) I sell these boards, I will also offer a matching aluminum front panel for about $300 and a matching set of 3D printed transparent buttons and LED pipes for about $30. But I will not sell them until the MIDIbox Quad Genesis firmware is significantly usable (won’t say “done”), which won’t be for a few months.
6 hours ago, yogi said:
And I’ve noticed your uploads to the SVN
Due to my schedule of having to get this hardware done by next week, the only software I’ve been writing is test programs for various functions (though this also includes ironing out the last of the bugs in the MBHP_Genesis module driver and the VGM-streaming-from-SD-card engine). I will be gone for a couple weeks (next week I’m presenting this hardware, as well as MIDIbox FM V2.1, at a panel at MAGFest with Josh Whelchel, my client; and then the week after that I have a graduate school event). After that, I expect it to take me a week or so to get my copy of MIDIbox Quad Genesis up to the same state as this one (this one’s for Josh Whelchel). And then, finally, I will modify and clean up my code into the two apps I promised: MIDIbox Genesis Tracker and MIDIbox VGM Player. The former will have no synth engine and just control sound chip parameters directly via MIDI, and the second will have the VGM player and a small LCD+DIN+DOUT interface. So this means code that anyone can use with the MBHP_Genesis module should be going up in about a month from now (middle of March). Sorry it can’t be sooner, the client comes first!
1 hour ago, Phatline said:
YEAAAAH!
It’s much more impressive when the lights are off–it lights up the room quite nicely. This was taken in a bright room (midday while it was snowy outside).
9 hours ago, Sauraen said:
What’s a-matter, you… chicken…?
Heh, no. Sign me up. Been assembling parts for this since you announced it
Been living in the states too long, “oh hell no” is a positive reaction to something
If you do proceed with releasing/group buy/sharing files etc. might I recommend using dual/tri footprints for the tacts like Smash’s sequencer boards to future proof it
3 hours ago, Altitude said:
Been living in the states too long, “oh hell no” is a positive reaction to something
I live in the US as well, and I’ve heard many “reverse” expressions like that, but never that one.
3 hours ago, Altitude said:
If you do proceed with releasing/group buy/sharing files etc. might I recommend using dual/tri footprints for the tacts like Smash’s sequencer boards to future proof it
I thought about that, but there’s two reasons I didn’t do that.
- There’s no room on the board for larger tact switches–they’d intersect with the LEDs.
- In order for the tact switches to work properly with the LEDs and the 3D printed button caps, they have to be 5mm high and positioned right where they are. Fortunately this is a very standard type of tact switches.
The LEDs are a bigger concern in terms of availability. Ultra-high brightness LEDs are required to illuminate the transparent button caps and LED pipes. The board contains about $150 worth of LEDs.
MAGFest has come and gone, and the first unit of MIDIbox Quad Genesis has been hand-delivered to Josh Whelchel and featured in our panel at the event. (To be clear, the hardware was finished, the software is only about 10% done.)
Here is the video I recorded before leaving:
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holy vegas mode batman
This must be one of the most flashy MIDIboxes evar! I love it!
Many greets!
Peter
hahahahahaha!! B L I N G ! ! ! ! !
Stunning Demo! The only down side, It’s so beautiful to watch one overlooks the great sound
Yogi
…a heavy metal midi robot…
Top work, and great realisation of your concept! Best of luck for the remaining HW integration.