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Mine arrived yesterday. For some reason the postman put it under the mat at my front door. I'm lucky I didn't step on it. I was very excited and ran into my little studio room to set it up. But somehow the video for my c64 has stopped working - I really hope it's a cable and not a fried VIC. ARGH!

Major props to firestARTer for building the interface! You ROCK!

I am not sure what causes this. But here is my guess:

You are dealing with a probably 15-20 year old C64 and power supply. It might possible that with connecting also the Interface it gave your system the last kick for dying. SID2SID+Prophet64+Midi Interface and a connected Video out (which also could take some power) might be in some setups not fine anymore.

I can guarantee i tested every Interface correctly (with C64, SID2SID, Video out & Pots) and they are working fine on delivery!

Check your C64 if the Fuse is still ok. Check if TV out is also dead. It might be your power supply, it might be your commodore.
There are actually some Interfaces around now and they work fine. So i guess it might be just old components.

okay, this is weird.  I am using Sonar, i tracked down the issue, you have to specifically go througha bunch of submenues to activate midi sync (weird).

Anyhow.. it sends start/stop data now.. but it does so CONTINUOUSLY... ifi put sequencer in sync24 mode, it plays.. nomatter what.  If i hit play in my DAW, it plays, if i hit stop in my DAW, it plays.. frustrating..

Okay, works perfectly in fruitly loops.

I notice that the keyboard sync mode for seq edition really plays notes about 3 octaves lower than they are played on the keyboard.  Middle C is LOW LOW C.  Why is that?

do i have to change settings or something to raise it up?  I am playing midi files through sequencer right now, and I have transpose things up to the 9th octave to get them to just be in mid range.

Last edited by Slorrin (2007-10-31 20:08:07)

yeah, Sonar sends start CONSTNATLY for some reason.. i got it to work in Fruity Loops by clicking on little tab.

DONE

slam

its amazing.. the tempo control is incredible

I find that playing notes in keyboard s24II mode though to be buggy.. the instrument has to have the right triggering settings, the right ADSR settings (to avoid the dreaded ADSR bug of the sid!) but still sometimes is skips a few notes..

but its quite amazing considering this is 25 year old technology!

Tonka wrote:

firestARTer wrote:

...except if english postman strikers just put all collected packets in the garbage can ;-)

NOT funny!!! 

Yeah sorry. I hope you will get it of course! Keep us updated!

Do you plan on doing another batch of this midi goodness?  If so when, I wants one I do.

Cheers,
Dan

Yes..i am also waiting...........until i find time to add them ;-)

Yes, I eagerly await the next batch too. Same goes for the P64 cartridge itself, however!!

i'm wondering now what everyone thinks they *need* it for.

anyone?

I also didn't get anything back yet. Did you ask your neighbour or maybe the postmen if he just put it on the stairs??

Not got mine yet either if it helps.

If them lazy b**tards at the Royal Mail have chucked it under a hedge, I'll burn that sorting office to the ground!

True story - I got a 12" record through the mail a few months back. My postie was ill so a different one did his round. Nobody was in so he SNAPPED the record in two to fold the envelope so he could post it! Despite a huge DO NOT BEND warning on the front.
I suppose that's why these people are postmen and not doctors.

commodork64 wrote:

Not got mine yet either if it helps.

If them lazy b**tards at the Royal Mail have chucked it under a hedge, I'll burn that sorting office to the ground!

True story - I got a 12" record through the mail a few months back. My postie was ill so a different one did his round. Nobody was in so he SNAPPED the record in two to fold the envelope so he could post it! Despite a huge DO NOT BEND warning on the front.
I suppose that's why these people are postmen and not doctors.

I had a DJ mate... same thing happened to him. It was an order from Hard To Find Records as well XD If I were him I'd have snapped the postman!

I've ordered a SID2SID board but didn't insure it cos it would have made it cost twice as much. For the small price I'm willing to risk it. When I order my Interface or P64 cartridge though I'm definitely getting insurance!

Last edited by James B (2007-11-07 00:48:09)

Mine arrived too. Phew.

The envelope did look like it had been ripped open though... bad postman!
I'd like to have seen the look on his gormeless face when he realised it wasn't a DVD or something else he could steal.
God knows what he though it was like... maybe a bomb!