MIDIbox

Here I plan to blog my progress on all things MIOS from now on. There are two areas I'll be focussing on, for now - stock MIDIBoxes, and a customized sequencer that I have been planning off and on for a couple of years now.

I had a bit of a disaster recently and lost pretty much everything I owned, so I really have to start from scratch all over again. I hope that by sharing my experiences, I will lend some experience to others starting out later on. This is where the stock MIDIBoxes come into play. I'll be breaking it down into these sections:

• Preparation - This will be mostly about tools required to do all of the projects, from soldering iron to wire strippers and everything else I come across
• MBSeq - My first project will be a stock MBSeq v2.
• MBSID - Next up is a 4xSID. at this point in time, I believe I'll leave the control surface as software, but we'll see…
• MBFM - Next up is a stock MBFM

Now, I'm a very busy man, so while I'm taking my sweet time preparing for and building the above,(don't expect anything to happen too quickly around here! All my time is used up, earning money to pay for these toys hehehe) I'll also be working on my baby. Ladies and gents, believe it or not, after all this time, I finally have a working name for her! So withour further ado, a link to my blog specifically for the

MIDIBox Sequencer vX

While I continue building my toolkit I am also working with other MIDIBoxers on a few other bits and pieces:

MIDIBox Guitar - Ribbon controller based MIDI guitar. Concept by Wilba. Not to be confused with the midibox axe, which is a seriously hot-rodded toy guitar with a few buttons for pitch, this design is based on ribbon controllers. Ask me if you're interested in this, at this stage it is too early to write about it here.

MBFX - MIDIBox controlled audio FX. Concept by any one of about 5 billion people ;) Could also be adapted to other purposes where digitally controlled resistors or voltage dividers, or digitally controlled switching, is required. MIDI up your favourite amp head, stomp box, analog synth or individual modular synth modules Keyboard - a large velocity sensitive scanning matrix for driving a set of piano-style keys.