Can't overstate how nice the performance patches are, and touch sensitive. And the reverb is the icing on the cake. Also there's a way to change performances with program changes.
Thanks! Yeah, honestly the only challenge was getting the audio into my Mac for recording since it doesn't take a 3.5mm cable as an input, and my Focusrite only has mono inputs. I got a 3.5mm to split XLR cable and that did the trick.
That's cool! And pretty surprising for a big name like Korg. They also made a synth/game for the Nintendo DS. I know a lot of people also like Korg Gadget on iOS, but I haven tried it.
For future reference, the header on your audio board is made for female jumper wire connectors. You could have connected it to the pi with female to female jumper wires instead of soldering it.
Thanks, @System-1541! I did that when prototyping, but the female ends didn't seem to make a solid enough connection on the I2C LCD. The LCD would reset with the slightest bump. I should have used heat shrink though for sure. 😅
Very cool build! I am trying to map an Arturia MiniLab the same way - quick question, is the rotary function of the rotary knob being controlled by MIDI? In other words, were you able to control any of the parameter value using a knob or slider on your Arturia? What a time to be alive!
I think menu navigation and parameter setting is done by button presses, a tick from the rotary encoder, or "Specify MIDI CC to act as a button NB: Off < 64 < ON." So you can use a MIDI CC knob as a button but it seems cumbersome the way they describe it. (github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/blob/e03122a3d232e7b20e5ccbb54de6f0dff5f7666f/src/minidexed.ini#L113) There might be more information about it on the MiniDexed Discussions tab on their Github page.
Thanks! I'm not sure about the touch screen and sound module, but MiniDexed has a forum that might have some answers. github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/discussions
9:43 With your miniDexed you can play the intro of “Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror” with the performance 005_Aftertough from Greenhouse Bank. (A replica of the Roland D50)
Hey Moby Pixel! Great video. I got everything working just as you showed except the MIDI button navigation. I have the exact same midi keyboard as you (Arturia Keylab 61 Essential), and I can play the default TG1 with the keys, but I cannot navigate with the pads even though I set the MIDI button settings to the exact same as in your video. Did you do any other changes to the MIDI controller that I might have missed?
Is the keyboard sending the pad/notes to MIDI Channel 10? That is the way it was setup on my keyboard, but I can't remember if it was the default. It might be different depending on the which Map you have selected on your Arturia.
@@mobypixel I can play the MiniDexed with the keyboard when I have set the MIDI Channel to 10 in minidexed.ini. So I assume that is the right channel since you are using the same channel with the same keyboard. But I'll see if I can get it to work with some other channel.
@@mobypixel Ok, I changed the keyboard to use channel 9 for the pads (they were set to channel 10) and I set the MIDIButtonCh=9 and now it works! I don't know why it didn't work for channel 10 but at least I got it working now. :)
@@MagnusGedda My keys and the pads are being sent to different MIDI channels. My MIDI cable is hiding right now so I can't test it. Try holding Map Select then tap the third pad. This will set the pads' MIDI channel to 10 by default. The keys MIDI channels are set by holding the MIDI CH button then the corresponding keys. I'm guess your pads are not going to the correct channel.
Hi! When you load the original DX7 ROMs, do you go through all TGs and load the same voice on all of them, or do you turn off TG2-8 somehow? I tried loading a DX7 ROM voice on TG1 but when I play it sounds like TG2-8 are still playing the original voice, messing up the sound.
I believe this is the newer version of the one I got. It looks like the PCB is blue now. It should work just the same. www.amazon.com/dp/B09T33LJQM?tag=goodswave08-20&th=1
The one I bought came that way. It only requires running 4 wires. www.amazon.com/Hosyond-Display-Module-Arduino-Raspberry/dp/B0BWTFN9WF The other LCDs will work, but you might need a port extender. That's how Floyd did in his tutorial linked in the description.
The smaller board is called the "i2c backpack" As you can see, the LCD itself takes many many more pins(14 I think), and that backpack is soldered to the LCD(along the upper edge, see all those solder joints) driving those pins. So the RPi sees the backpack as an i2c device over it's 4 pin connection and sends the backpack display commands, then the backpack controls the LCD in turn.
Thanks for a great video! But you aren't really putting its full power to use, if you have a groovebox (or even a daw) handy that can sequence at least 8 channels of MIDI you could really put the minidexed through its paces as a 8 multitimbral synth! 🙂
It's not too bad. You set it up in the minidexed.ini file: github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/blob/afa72d21aa81a9876b3f9e50f3bd6f4cd56cdac0/src/minidexed.ini#L113 The other option is navigating with a rotary encoder like Floyd Steinberg did in his video. To see the Patch Name I navigated to the performances tab and selected it. I'm not sure of a shortcut for seeing the names if you are deep in the menu stack, but you can change patches with a button press.
@@mobypixel Thanks. I see two pins there for the encoder, so that would cover turning it, but nothing for the encoder button or built in switch... Is it defined as one of the other buttons? I don't really get how all those other buttons can be replaced with just an encoder, but I assume it has at least the usual built in button in the encoder to do something. I've looked at the documentation a few times but I haven't really got all that far with understanding it.
@@mobypixel Okay, I've found a bit in Wiki Files, that says "ButtonPinShortcut defines the pin that is used for rotating the rotary encoder knob while the button is pressed. Probably you will want the button that is built into the rotary encoder to be used for shortcuts." I really have no idea what that's trying to say so I guess I'll just have to try it and see what happens.
@@TooSlowTube Yeah, a the rotary encoder is an endlessly turning potentiometer that can be pressed as a momentary button. I think in MiniDexed one click selects and a double click goes back in the menu. I used one in my Teensy Synth build recently.
