Comments on: FastFingers http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dan Laskowski http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/comment-page-1/#comment-64432 Dan Laskowski Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:02:41 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8786#comment-64432 Today I began BASIC MIDI routines with the C64 Expansion Port Sentech/Passport type MIDI interface, mostly to check my MIDI interface and also to re-familiarize myself with the MIDI commands. I was able to get my Kawai K3 to play a slew of notes which I sent to it by way of a fornext loop. So the MIDI programming re-begins..after almost 30 years. So hopefully I will be able to integrate this into Fastfingers. This in only HALF of the BASIC programming. The other HALF is to also RECEIVE notes from a MIDI keyboard to trigger the Fastfingers sounds. The PASSPORT type MIDI interface was the most popular, and it is not easy to make a universal MIDI driver because of the way the DATA and CONTROL/STATUS registers work. There is only ONE STATUS register on the PASSPORT and the same register is also the CONTROL register. Many other MIDI interfaces will use 2 separate registers for STATUS AND CONTROL. The same goes with the DATA register. It also flips so that it can be a READ or WRITE register. So what I'm basically saying. Is to start shopping for a PASSPORT type MIDI interface if you plan on using Fastfingers ,in the future, with MIDI. Dan Today I began BASIC MIDI routines with the C64 Expansion Port Sentech/Passport type MIDI interface, mostly to check my MIDI interface and also to re-familiarize myself with the MIDI commands. I was able to get my Kawai K3 to play a slew of notes which I sent to it by way of a fornext loop. So the MIDI programming re-begins..after almost 30 years. So hopefully I will be able to integrate this into Fastfingers. This in only HALF of the BASIC programming. The other HALF is to also RECEIVE notes from a MIDI keyboard to trigger the Fastfingers sounds.

The PASSPORT type MIDI interface was the most popular, and it is not easy to make a universal MIDI driver because of the way the DATA and CONTROL/STATUS registers work. There is only ONE STATUS register on the PASSPORT and the same register is also the CONTROL register. Many other MIDI interfaces will use 2 separate registers for STATUS AND CONTROL. The same goes with the DATA register. It also flips so that it can be a READ or WRITE register.

So what I’m basically saying. Is to start shopping for a PASSPORT type MIDI interface if you plan on using Fastfingers ,in the future, with MIDI.

Dan

]]> By: Dan Laskowski http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/comment-page-1/#comment-56593 Dan Laskowski Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:32:35 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8786#comment-56593 Interesting website!! I have added a new feature to Fastfingers. LIGHTSHOW will be up on YOUTUBE soon. Dan Laskowski Interesting website!!

I have added a new feature to Fastfingers. LIGHTSHOW will be up on YOUTUBE soon.

Dan Laskowski

]]> By: Skinner http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/comment-page-1/#comment-49407 Skinner Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:16:14 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8786#comment-49407 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcpQewqVBE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcpQewqVBE&feature=related

]]> By: Kevin Spencer http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/comment-page-1/#comment-49383 Kevin Spencer Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:47:15 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8786#comment-49383 As a wee nipper playing C-64 games I was always a bit partial to Rob Hubbard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hubbard As a wee nipper playing C-64 games I was always a bit partial to Rob Hubbard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hubbard

]]> By: Ben http://www.wiretotheear.com/2012/01/24/fastfingers/comment-page-1/#comment-49376 Ben Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:37:57 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8786#comment-49376 Wonderfully eccentric presentation! Wonderfully eccentric presentation!

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