That's quite a 'journey'. I'll say more when I've got sorted out here (only just got back from France, and off to the New Forrest Wednesday).

I had fully intended to fix it. I've manged to find quite detailed drawings and none of the problems are show-stoppers. However, so far it's been impossible to find days when Tony is at home!

It's a long way to go, just to find nobody's there

Wonks wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:34 am You can get adapters, but it’s always more reliable to use a single lead/cable designed for the job.

Exactly!

That has real possibilities.
A suggestion:
Use something like an Arduino to turn the pulses into a MIDI stream. That way you can easily experiment with various synths etc.

If you need to check the results you might as well calculate them yourself. The musical scale is an easy one. All you need to know is that A4 is 440 Hz and the interval is the 12th root of 2. A modern calculator would breeze through that without needing a power station for the energy, and the answer ...

Some of the older organs used 12 separate LC oscillators for the top octave, then simple dividers and filters for the lower octaves. FWIW You can easily turn a square wave into a triangle one, and with careful choice of resistors and back-to-back (germanium) diodes you get a reasonable approximation ...

Depending on how old the house is, the ceiling can be a surprisingly 'efficient' transmission medium. I have this situation here. The neighbour's ceiling is the same dimensions as mine. When they have their ceiling fan running I can hear it quite clearly - especially if I stand in the middle of the ...

I've just had an email with the following information. The 'JIM' bit will be in French, while the 'LAC' part will be in English. Hi everyone, If you will be watching JIMLAC-25 remotely, here's the streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/@gramecncm/streams eduroam will be accessible throughout the ...

I've listened to a random selection of these - very nice work indeed

Oh dear... Is this a can of worms I see before me? I don't think anyone can actually say what is 'original'. It's just too fuzzy a description. The best I can come up with for a listener is either: It's something unlike anything I've ever heard before. Or: It's an unexpected interpretation of an ...

I’m sorted, but I do like the fact that good synths have become so much more affordable than when I were a lad. Indeed, that is a good thing ! I'm old enough to remember when us wannabe musos could only buy the original GEM keyboard on HP :wave: One of these: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/o ...

For anyone using either debian or ubuntu, one of Yoshimi's little band of helpers has produced Personal Package Archives. Details are here:

https://launchpad.net/~ichthyo/+archive/ubuntu/music

As I've said before, the killer feature here is that you can turn a raspberry pi into a pretty powerful synth. There are too many existing solutions for Yoshimi to appeal to almost all the people who are running softsynths on a pc or Mac. Hence there ought to be a prebuilt SD card image I can just ...

Ho-Hum. We did it again
An error had slipped in that only showed up when trying to load a very old MIDI-Learn file. So we now have V2.3.4.1

While we were at it we made a small improvement to the new 'Changed Instrument' warning code and laid the foundations for further work.

Good plan!

The Elf wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:33 am

Where is the ready-built version?

Well....I've got it on a couple of Yoshimi Pi units
I imagine Jame's lad has already compiled it too.

It should start appearing on the regular Linux distributions over the next couple of week.

New feature: Independent control of MIDI Omni setting for all parts. New feature: Warnings when unsaved instruments could be overwritten. Compatibility fixes for FLTK V 1.4.x Reorganisation of XML management for simplicity and MXML 4.x recognition. Yoshimi source code is available from either: https ...

At the risk of severe criticism, I still have (and very occasionally use) A tiny headphone amplifier I designed and built a {cough} few years ago. I uses two 7611 CMOS Op Amps (one for each channel) that then feed an AC126/AC127 pair wired as emitter followers with their bases wired directly ...

A possible point of concern is that uptick in the frequency response just above 80kH - suggests marginal stability.
Indeed, why haven't they tamed the bandwidth well below that frequency?

Just a bit too far from Chatham!
Hope it goes well

He said it was a pipe organ. Depending on what type of computer that is, and what software , and hardware I/O, you might be on a hiding to nothing. It's even possible that the program is being held on floppy disk. Having said that a keen (younger) bod could probably knock up a modern replacement ...

He said it was a pipe organ. Depending on what type of computer that is, and what software , and hardware I/O, you might be on a hiding to nothing. It's even possible that the program is being held on floppy disk. Having said that a keen (younger) bod could probably knock up a modern replacement ...

Depending on just how dirty you want to get your hands these are two chip options worth considering: TLC3702CP (single analog comparator) TLC374CN (4 channel analog comparator) Both operate over the supply voltage range of 3 to 16V. Also they are true comparators. They have two inputs and switch ...

I thin Martin has pretty much covered it