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paul_courville · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: EMX Block Diagram

For educational purposes only...

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reddone · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

Yo Paul , your pic just reminded of something .

Have u tried Reaktor ? Its great for building your own synths ( i hav made an EA-1 so far ) and the best thing is that they are controlable via Mx .
Reaktor has to be my favourite piece of software , check it out mate .

Ruso · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

yea also synthmaker and max msp, paul u'd like to mess with those Wink

reddone · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: Software EMX2 ??

We should take a bit of a look at this diagram an see if some sort of emx2 soft synth can be made ... with an actual EMX at hand it would be awesome controlling the thing .
My ea1 was complete in a day but i reckon an MX2 would take just a Bit longer though lol , definately . Nothing to lose tho . And we have tubes to feed it through !!!

Who knows where it might lead ....

reddone · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: Actually .....

There is only so much here that is relevant in making a soft synth , so just look carefully .

Ruso · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:46 am Post subject:

lol dude it's all electric components, I actually looked up the cpu, and found all the tools to write code for it.... but here's the problem

you gotta think about this: the emx has many parts, all independant from each other, all controlled by little computer and all of those are connected to one bigger one which controlls everything... now the main one can be programmed, and with little work in soldering can be interfaced from a computer and you can flash new code on to it... but here's the problem.. you have to REWRITE the code for the electribe's OS to interface with EVERY other little computer onboard in code that is HIDDEN... this is such a tremendously large task that it would make MORE sence to build an electribe from scratch... in which case I would build a midi controller which would controll software on a lop top instead....

but seriously people have to realise that schematics aren't gonna help you understand what every part is... you have to take into consideration EVERYTHING, even how many steps each rotary encoder has, which is such a tiny piece to the whole puzzle.... how does the led matrix work(theres a diagram for that too but..) what message do I send to the I/O pannel to send a message to the led circuit to toggle a certain LIGHT on...

this is an unrealistic task... to say the least....

reddone · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:58 am Post subject: LOl , Ruso .... interesting tho

The thing is that what you have researched ( or just know ) seems to be relevant in building a more TRUE representation of an EMX2 Than i personally would push for . When using the block diagram or the one on the users manual there are particular chainings of the Mx design that should be paid attention to when using reaktor .

All i needed to know for an EA-1 was what order things went thru each other NOT the cpu or any other such tech knowledge . After Chaining the parts i needed i simply messed with the midi data i assigned to each knob/button etc , until i had a machine that functioned Very close to my EA-1. Although it didnt have the "warpiness" an EA-1 has . Still close tho .

We dont need to be geniuses to get a basic model going , we're not actually designing the thing FOR korg are we ....

All things aside Ruso , i appreciate some of the info you share here . Are u a Programmer by any chance , or something like that ?

paul_courville · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:08 am Post subject:

reddone · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:20 am Post subject: Whattt ??

Are you telling me that reaktor is no more ??? Surely not !!

I use reaktor 4 and have full functionality . Why would native stop making a fully editable Reaktor . I'm puzzled .

paul_courville · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:26 am Post subject: Synth Design by Reactor

Trailer here...
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?id=reaktor5trailer&L=0

Website here...
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?reaktor_us&id=reaktor&L=0&rdrctd&flash=9
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Ruso · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject:

I am a programmer and I also have extensive microcontroller experience (microchip programming and hardware development)..... well maybe not extensive but I am working on my own midi controller from scratch.

Hey cyberdude be jellous, I'm about to go to a boeing swap meet Wink

khehee they'll have so much weird gear there that can be messed arround with Very Happy

paul_courville · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

Ruso · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject:

they have stuff from boeing like huge milling machines(that are like up to the ceiling in the hangar) old tables computers, projectors, so on, you'd like it paul