Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[VinceBlood]

Isn't this the image that appeared in the Jarre biogrophy by Remilleux, Im sure I have seen it somewhere before.

Yes it is, I forgot to precise that.

[Jon]

I thought it was, thanks. I will have to get myself another copy of that book as my other copy got damaged after a small flood.

[Equinoxe]

The absolute Hammer would be a sort of LED´s -inside- of -each- hole and a touch-sensitive demultiplex-circuit, which reacts on fingertips on the holes. So you wouldn´t need pins for programming -and- you would be able to use the Matrix as a sort of Display (for Setup properties, for example) Stef

Isn't that similar to how the Digisequencer works????

[PHASEREFFECT]

The absolute Hammer would be a sort of LED´s -inside- of -each- hole and a touch-sensitive demultiplex-circuit, which reacts on fingertips on the holes. So you wouldn´t need pins for programming -and- you would be able to use the Matrix as a sort of Display (for Setup properties, for example) Stef

Isn't that similar to how the Digisequencer works????

I have no idea, i know too few about it. Curious, I also had not considered this thing. ....reminds me a bit on a situaton where i´ve mailed to Natalie, that i wanna make a Album, which reflects each hour of a day of a human life, but i had no Idea about the "sense" of the Equinoxe Album. Yes, so things add themselves together .

Stef

[LeoDaV]

Hi!

I'd like to show you the building off in steps

Here's my first attempt in creating the GMS250. I decided first to do a GMS125 version because it fit's perfectly on _my_ screen. I'll make a full 250 lateron It's then simply copy 'n paste for the second half

Too bad the original pic is a bit unsharp but it's a start. I can always redesign it lateron. For now it supplies the measurements and positions.


I'll post some more picz or even a flick to show how it operates First the GFX part then the functional part (usually they go along simultaniously). First problem already is Reaktor works with 4px * 4px as smalest alignable objects and in a multiple of 4 so... that's bad if I want the full 250 on 1024 width max.. The GFX will be far more work then to make it actually work...

J.

[GeeJee]

Interesting...

Will you make this work as a VST plugin?

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What should i say then?



Only the Matrix decoding and LED controlling unit for now (48 Steps). Then comes the octave holes/their decoder/"interpreter" and the rest of the holes. Then the up/down buttons and their control unit, after that a Sort of "Polyphonic" CV encoder, the Midi control processor, the Clock generator (inside the microcon) blahblahblah....

Stef

[Jakob BC]

Wow, what a nice project. Cool to have a bunch of rare-instruments VSTs

[LeoDaV]

Wow, what a nice project. Cool to have a bunch of rare-instruments VSTs

Stef's version is the real thing: hardware!!

My version is, as you can see, for NI's Reaktor.. aka zachte waar (software)

I won't be able to do anything about it today since today is the final session for the Album pre-mastering!!!!

J.

[GeeJee]

Oooh... good luck then

[Jakob BC]

Ok thats also pretty cool, Im looking forward to some demos from both of you.

[PHASEREFFECT]

Wow, what a nice project. Cool to have a bunch of rare-instruments VSTs

Stef's version is the real thing: hardware!!

Nah, using that or that, it´s somewhere the same. But i strongly doubt that i´ll ever get this thing working because of a missing and freely available matrix in this size=>it would be simply too expensive to use real switches. -Or- i build by my own a Matrix, but that´s a lot of work.

I would do first a normal hardware version without special "extensions", then -maybe- later adding something like dump programs by SysEx or storing/recall them in memory.

Stef

[Jarp2600]

It is one of my wishes to build once real matrisequencer. With a modular synth.

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As i´ve found out, are Patchfields in this size only available from two manufacturers (the last ones) and they produce only fields, where the x-axis must have the same amount of dots like the y-axis and -only- by request. The prices are very high too, a 8x8 Marix without pins about 80-100€, a single pin about 2-3€. That means you would easily lost over 1000 Euro alone for the Matrix and that is, of course, way too expensive. Even if would build a selfmade-Matrix, from where should i buy the Pins?

No way, guys. The only possibilities would be once the "touch-sensitive hole"-solution or push-buttons with momentary action; i´m able to get these for a very low price. That additionally means a re-design using at least a memory chip>2K.

I´ll work later on a solution.

Stef

[PHASEREFFECT]

Works...currently as a smaller Version....you´ll press a key, the device switches automatically to the row and adds the pressed key into the memory. Only the function of turning off a key is missing, but that comes all...

Edit: Driven by a Microcontroller.

http://www.phasereffect.com/nopub/test1.wmv

Stef