DIY FM - PreenFM2

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Yikes!!  Sounds exciting..

Im looking forward to getting involved..

Ta,

Paul
London
www.punkdisco.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Vaughan (ibisum) [mailto:ibisum at gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2015 14:55
> To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
> Subject: Re: DIY FM - PreenFM2
> 
> >> That is very fascinating, and thank you for pointing that out .. as
> >> I’m currently working on the MIDIShifter3000 project (I may have
> >> mentioned it before),
> >
> > How is this coming on?  When can we buy one?  :)
> >
> 
> 
> The MagicShifter3000 (which is the parent product of the MIDIShifter3000) is
> progressing nicely, and Phillip (MagicShifter inventor) has just finished a final
> round of design review for the hardware (PCB), which is good news because
> this will be ready for us to go in a few weeks time ..
> 
> The plan is that we’ll announce a Kickstarter campaign pretty soon, and one
> of the perks will be the MIDIShifter3000 variant of the product - its exactly a
> MagicShifter3000, albeit it will come with the MIDI I/O cables you need to rig
> it up to your synth, and of course will have the MIDIShifter3000 firmware
> onboard instead of the regular MagicShifter3000 code.  (You can switch back
> and forth, of course.. use MIDIShifter3000 all day in your studio, switch it into
> MagicShifter mode for the bike-ride home/rave POV toy/looking for keys in
> the dark..)
> 
> The MIDIShifter3000 code is progressing along nicely, I have completed a full
> refactor needed to make things absolutely perfect for our needs as a MIDI
> processing workstation.  It’ll have a few modes, some fancy light-show
> modes that are based around things like MIDI clock, activity, etc., there’s a
> full-blown arpeggiator, a new kind of sequencer system that hasn’t been
> seen elsewhere, and a couple of other little tricks I’m not going to reveal until
> the Kickstarter campaign, but!  I will give you a hint.  The MagicShifter3000
> hardware includes WIFI, so .. there’s an onboard web interface for
> admin/tweaking/config/programming, and there’ll be ways to have multiple
> MIDIShifter3000’s in your studio, wirelessly talking to each other, each one
> acting as a MIDI node in the rack, and so on .. you can use 16+ of them
> together to make your own little mixing console if you like (an
> accelerometer/gyro/compass is onboard too), and there will be some things
> that will blow your mind, but not really if you’ve been paying attention to
> music-bar all these years .. ;)
> 
> 
> 
> Trust me, you’re going to want one of these. ;)  If not 8, or maybe 16, or .. 32
> .. or more!  At least one for every synth in your studio.  :P
> 
> >
> >> Its not really fun to be on the outside watching all of this again,
> >> having been on the inside for a few years, so I’m looking forward to
> >> being on the inside again, only with a lot more outside brought
> >> inside with me, if you know what I mean .. oh shoot, why does it feel
> >> like I just wrote a Punkdisco lyric .. ;)
> >
> > We'll have to use that  :)
> >
> 
> 
> You know I hope you do!
> 
> 
> ;
> --
> Jay Vaughan
> ibisum at gmail.com
> 
> 
>