vendredi 27 septembre 2024

Drumulator and Efinix FPGA

I haven't posted in a month now. It was back to work, and then I worked on the startup of the Drumulator system in an Efinix FPGA.

I made good progress and managed to start the Drumulator system. However, I'm getting some pretty strange results on the screen that I get when debugging the VHDL source.

So, as I find that I am no longer making progress on the subject, I am going to develop a small display interface that I will plug into the fpga card in order to see what I obtain.

And then, there are subjects that you can carry around for years without ever succeeding in really finalizing the concept. A few months ago, a few years now, I developed a sort of MIDI switch. The idea is good, but in fact, when I found myself in front of my stack of synths these last few days, I realized that, in reality, no, the notion of switch is not the right one at all. And I don't know why, but a kind of 'revelation' came to me. And it's completely crazy, because it goes against what I've been trying to do for years. I'm going to tackle this topic.

Regarding the MSX cartridge that I developed over several months, I can say that the cartridge works very well on my Omega. Unfortunately, it does not work well on a Panasonic without me being able to determine the reason. So as I don't have MSX machines of different models and as it's difficult for me to get help on this one, I decided to stop my 'waste of time' on this subject.

That's all for now.