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noobnr39 · Joined: 20 Nov 2014 Posts: 9

Im new to all this electronic and IC stuff, im just wondering what you are trying to achieve with the measurements/detections ?

Flash memory coded firmare?

( im a complete n00b at this, but id love to learn )

cntrlchng · Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 39

I am, as well. I only know enough to be dangerous.

I guess I'm just interested in how it all works, and i think it would be fun to get under the hood and tweak things. I initially wanted to see if I could add/edit the oscillator patches, the parameters for the init pattern, and add more scales.

Just imagine you have a hardware platform that's designed for audio synthesis, which has a strong processor and an interface of buttons and knobs that work well for live composition, and you knew how to program it and add your own functionality... would be neat, right?
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To the biggest and brightest here....thank you all for making this thread! Thanks to Poumtschak, I was led here to discover that there are some pretty cool possiblites with the E2. In particular the possiblity that the new Electribe is OTG USB compliant...

Has anyone here gotten an OTG adapter like this one: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.285254100?srccode=cii_17588969&cpncode=36-35782830-2&WT.mc_id=US_datafeed_Google

...and tried it out to see if it works or activated?

Or is it that the ability is there but there needs to be firm ware to activate it?
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dutchcow · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:22 am Post subject:

Getting the service manual, that would be great.

cntrlchng · Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 39

I think we should take a crack at disassembling the firmware update file.
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i'm hoping for the day some genius cracks the firmware and starts making homebrew firmwares for this machine... that would be sooo gooooood

a boy can dream
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dutchcow · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:10 am Post subject:

I'm wondering about the internal sample and bit rates, and if there's a possibility to add some kind of digital/optical out. Not too sure if the hardware supports it. Need to read up on the amazing (and big!) list of chip-specs posted here Shocked

It would be nice to output everything digitally rather than exporting bad loops to Ableton or using the line out.

It seems there are some modding possibilities with this platform though. Hopefully there will be time to dust off ye old soldering kit soon Cool

Update:
As a wannabe genius I did a little messing about with binwalker on the firmware file Wink

It didn't find much interesting apart from a certificate used to sign the firmware, XML templates for Ableton, menu item names and a bunch of strings, most been mentioned here already.

It also mentions UART and bunch of debugging and testing options including a watchdog process and dump options for the memory/dsp, which could be interesting for accessing the system directly and gathering more information. Are there already pins somewhere for the port?

There are also 2 disabled items in the FX list inside the file Shocked

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