Awesome Justin, I appreciate your continued support!
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“So say we all” – BSG75 crew
Edit: I have one question about enclosure(s), though: Expansion side ports. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to use pair of identical devices (with different firmwares flashed? whatever) to expand on controls and - more importantly for me - MIDI ports; if so - we’d need some means to physically connect that pair, preferrably securely enough. Thoughts?
Asking, because I think I’ll need those ports and/or MIDI-over-USB in not so distant future. Speaking of latter, haven’t had the time yet to really look what it’ll take code-wise; speaking of former, I do have 
TM-1, I regularly used it to sequence VCV Rack voices with 
, and I like it a lot - gives negligible latency. But if all four ports on MC are occupied ( 
/ 
), then I’m loosing at least Turbo to 
, and this isn’t good.
My original idea was to have the main board, and expansion boards mechanically secured by the expansion port connection. It involves designing another PCB in the shape of a bridge, the pillars of the bridge are the male pins that connect to the ports on each board.
Adding additional MIDI ports would be relatively trivial. Both expansion ports have pins exposed for an additional TX/RX UART pair on either side (one of those is shared by the USB).
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MCL 2.31 Released.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Everyone should upgrade.
If you dont not know how, you can message me for assistance.
Also, most of the development work is now being tracked on GitHub in (pull requests and issues).
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Post 500, nice milestone for that release!
I just bought a MD MK2 UW+ so I’m going to have to get my hands on a PCB. Very exciting.
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Would some kind soul post/PM me the 2.31 manual in PDF? I just trashed my PC doing the Xelatex thing and am looking for a helping hand. Thx in advance.
Latest manual is always above. There is a download icon to get the pdf.
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Ah brilliant. Thanks! Now onto clean up on Aisle 4.
Can i buy the complete product anywhere?
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Does the MCL provide polyrhythm functionality with MD?
Thank you
The internal sequencer tracks have independent track length.
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Hey Justin, can the megacommand act as a usb midi host?
i’m looking for something to allow external midi sync of an OP-Z (sans computer) since the oplab module has been out of stock for ages…
Not natively. You need to flash the USB chip on the ArduinoMEGA board to act as a class compliant MIDI device. But it’s a bit of work.
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ok thanks, yeah it’s probably a bit more work than i am up for at the moment
I think it’s a lot more straightforward than building the whole thing. Flashing is really easy and there might be a couple of lines to change to add the USB-Midi to the software.
There’s a new a firmware release coming along soon (V2.40).
The last month was spent overhauling and optimising the low level MIDI, interrupt and sequencer code for the 8bit processor.
This has resulted in improved timing and firmware performance.
The CUE Page has been rewritten and is now a generalised Audio Routing page and works correctly.
Various bug fixes for Chain mode.
Write Mode has now been deprecated in favour of Chain Mode. This means you’ll need to merge your patterns when saving from the MD, in order to retain the MD sequencer data.
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I’m just working on updating the MCL user manual for version 2.40 *.
Then i’ll drop the new firmware.
Stay tuned.
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Version 2.40 is out. 
Everyone should upgrade.
MCL User manual has been updated to reflect changes in 2.40
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