Sync Nanoloop and LSDJ to MIDI (At the Same Time)

This setup lets one sync up to 6 copies of Nanoloop and 6 copies of LSDJ to MIDI clock signals. The circuit will respond to CLOCK TIMING, START, STOP and CONTINUE messages.

Schematic
Notes about the schematic:
• PORTD = digital pins 0 - 7
• PORTB = digital pins 7 - 13
• PORTC = analog pins 0 - 5
• PORTB = nanoloop sync
• PORTC = lsdj sync
• For each Nanoloop connection, the sync signal goes to the SERIN pin on the GB. The GND pin on the GB connects to Arduino ground.
• For each LSDJ connection, the sync signal goes to the CLK pin on the GB. The GND, SERIN and SEROUT pins on the GB all connect to Arduino ground. There is also a pull down resistor from the CLK line to ground. The value of this resistor is 22k up to around 100k or so.

Breadboard
Here is a breadboarded version with one Nanoloop sync out and one LSDJ sync out.


Code
You can get the code here:
http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/projects/nanolsdjsync/

8bitcollective.com Compilation "Hello World!" Out Now!

download it here

It's great to see a strong Australian contingent on this one. There's three of us; Derrris-Kharlan, Raptorface and myself.


Track listing:
01. MM - 8BC Is Cool
02. Swampyboy - Glacial Floe
03. ChipHydra - Anything with Heart
04. Digital Cait Sith - Krazoa
05. Little-Scale - Hello
06. Raptorface - Cherryblossom
07. Sparkyboy - Gloom
08. Nintenboys - Be Alone
09. Constipation Man - Space Race
10. Failotron - Hello Világ
11. Pandotrix! - Fire Flower Hilltops
12. Amiga Agia - Mustache
13. Mikrochip No32 - On the Move!
14. Derris-Kharlan - Prism Stars
15. Sybi0t - Lazarou
16. Videovalvontaa - Easter Dicks

Front/Back Cover Done by Minusbaby.

Emily Tulloch Speaks at Forum

Emily Tulloch spoke at postgraduate forum last week. I was really impressed with her topic and her delivery, it was highly engaging. I know that it wasn't a main point of her presentation, but the highlight for me was the effect that recording technology of the early twentieth century had on the violin's upper register vibrato style at the time (something that came to my mind not three days prior, would you believe).

Fixing Dogmeat's Drummachine

before

after

So the user Dogmeat sent me a max patch he was having some troubles with. Actually, the patch is almost there. I only had to add maybe one or two objects.

The main issues were:
• Added a way to choose which MIDI note should be triggered on an toggled beat (the i object stores the number and the sel object triggers the value for each '1' it receives from the coll).
• Changed the ints for the counter maximum count from 4, 8 and 16 to 3, 7 and 15 because the counter starts at 0.

Download the fixed version here.

Glitching at 2918.2434 BPM

An overclocked Game Boy crashes [audio]