as soon as I get the custom backplates I hope fcd72 finds some time between all those new shruthi xt cases! PCB are here, even some full kits are already sorted and the firmware update for the missing funcions (prescaler etc) is nearly finished
a question regarding the implementation of the start/stop (reset) IOs.
At the moment I have it set up like this:
Start/stop input: - when low, sequencer is stopped. - when high, sequencer starts
Start/stop(reset) output: - low while sequencer is stopped - high when running
now after some testing with the few modules I have that accept a reset input (a green seq and a grids) It seems it would be better to invert the output. High when the sequencer is stopped, so the modules can reset (no clocks are generated while stopped) And low while it is running.
Is this the default behaviour to sync external clocked modules to the sequencer?
If so would it be better to make the start/stop input a reset input as well? So a high on the input would just reset the LXR sequencer and start/stop is only controlled via the button on the LXR?
besides that the software for the Trigger IO seems to work now. You can select 1,4,8,16 and 32ppq as input clock rate and there is a separate prescaler available for the 2 clock outputs.
@nightworks: i am super nice to these guys lately after watching a documentary about "dhl servicepartner" working conditions. i feel like i gained delivery-boy-karma and they start to be nice to me, too. (like actually looking if somebody is home instead of returning the shop for pickup when i am sitting at home all day, waiting for them)
To excuse my slave driver behavior: my normal delivery boy is sick or on holidays, normally i help lugging around parcels or wait already at the door when i see him. This week a dumb Kazach temporary substitute did deliver my orders just today, even if online tracking said they are in his car since monday. Hence he had to carry the Boxes him selves. But loderbast is right - if you are friendly to them they usually quickly start recognizing you as a customer, not just a place they have to dump deliveries….
Will the trigger-out parts become part of the "full kit", and will the new back panel become the standard setup, or will the parts and panel for the trigger outs become a separate item to "put in the cart"?
I don´t think us Batch 1/Pioneer run owners need the instructions as you did on those very nice trigger out instructions, but maybe we could have a thread that clearly states what we have to modify/do to get this add-on working?
alle you really need for the proto verion is connect the expansion with a flat cable to the mainboard connector. (with a connector on the expansion side and soldered to the lxr) while not recomended by julian i think, it is totaly possible to solder directly to the connector on the mainboard instead of the ui board to have the cable at the bottom (being invisible from the top side)
[edit]: thinking about it, i am not 100% sure if i got the expansion connector pin assignment right in this picture. these are the files julian sent me a quite a while ago, with my expansion pcb. it might have been a proto version so (while unlikely) the pin assignment of the connector might have changed.
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I hope fcd72 finds some time between all those new shruthi xt cases!
PCB are here, even some full kits are already sorted and the firmware update for the missing funcions (prescaler etc) is nearly finished
http://flic.kr/p/juaryD
At the moment I have it set up like this:
Start/stop input:
- when low, sequencer is stopped.
- when high, sequencer starts
Start/stop(reset) output:
- low while sequencer is stopped
- high when running
now after some testing with the few modules I have that accept a reset input (a green seq and a grids)
It seems it would be better to invert the output.
High when the sequencer is stopped, so the modules can reset (no clocks are generated while stopped)
And low while it is running.
Is this the default behaviour to sync external clocked modules to the sequencer?
If so would it be better to make the start/stop input a reset input as well?
So a high on the input would just reset the LXR sequencer and start/stop is only controlled via the button on the LXR?
besides that the software for the Trigger IO seems to work now.
You can select 1,4,8,16 and 32ppq as input clock rate and there is a separate prescaler available for the 2 clock outputs.
received some boxes from fcd72 today
got to check the content and prepare the shop, but i'm positive to have them online this week
http://www.sonic-potions.com/triggerAssembly
still some stuff to add, but the basic build instruction is up
will get an enclosure some time soon.
@nightworks:
i am super nice to these guys lately after watching a documentary about "dhl servicepartner" working conditions.
i feel like i gained delivery-boy-karma and they start to be nice to me, too. (like actually looking if somebody is home instead of returning the shop for pickup when i am sitting at home all day, waiting for them)
Not everybody has the need for trigger outs, so i can't justify raising the price for everybody.
alle you really need for the proto verion is connect the expansion with a flat cable to the mainboard connector. (with a connector on the expansion side and soldered to the lxr)
while not recomended by julian i think, it is totaly possible to solder directly to the connector on the mainboard instead of the ui board to have the cable at the bottom (being invisible from the top side)
[edit]: thinking about it, i am not 100% sure if i got the expansion connector pin assignment right in this picture. these are the files julian sent me a quite a while ago, with my expansion pcb. it might have been a proto version so (while unlikely) the pin assignment of the connector might have changed.
you solder to one of the two mainboard connectors.