Tom DeVito 10.14.2011

Start:  9:00am

  • Got the audio to split properly.  Assigned different tones to each finger.  The higher pitch sounds are actually more tactile.
  • There is some weird thing that happens when the thumb and index are pushed simultaneously where all the electronics go into some type of weird grounding loop.  I have examined everything and haven’t found a short yet.  It seems to be related to the midi controller because it doesn’t happen if only the amplifiers are active, however, it could just not be happening because there is no signal in this case.  I just noticed the polarity of the signal input capacitors might be the cause. I will be sure to check this Monday.
  • The sound quality is not equal across all speakers.  I might be able to increase quality by hooking up the midi devices differently using a method which better isolates the signal.  I had a link for this a while back.
  • Along with pitch bend it might be good to have the amps ramp up on curved function rather then the current linear way.

end: 6:00pm