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Heya,
I finally managed to do what I had planned for a long time, I hacked one of my small MIDI-USB boards into my MicroNord. Actually this is a first version, I've got a big filter whistle big band triple MIDI interface but the board is still to big to fit into the Nord. So I don't need to wire up all the midi crap now to patch the nord from a pc (the normal MIDI ports are still working the way they used to), and when I connect it it's actually called "NordModular" as well.
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12/28/07
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Zanf
More details please - Id love to do this to mine as well.
12/28/07
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daswesen
Well, I used one of the USB MIDI boards I designed, but I guess you could use any available in stores. I will do a new batch of my boards soon, with them being smaller, so I could send you one. Then I just soldered on the MIDI connectors inside the Nord to the one on the USB interface, just like a cable would do. I sawed off a small corner of the nord encasing to fit the USB socket (I sawed off a bit too much, so there is a gap, lol). Then I glued the USB conncetor inside the nord, and soldered on the cables to my USB MIDI circuit board. I glued the board to the right side of the Nord, then put everything back together, et voila. 
12/28/07
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crabster
AWESOME! Now if I could go back in time to BEFORE I sold you mine... ;)
12/28/07
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daswesen
Heh crabster, that was a really appreciated buy. I didn't really do much with it until now, but I'm slowly getting there. I plan to take this mofo apart like I did with the machinedrum
12/28/07
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daswesen
EDIT: One of the things that kept me back was that insane midi wiring.
12/28/07
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Zanf
Manuel, if/when you get some of the boards sorted, write up some instructions [im a complete div when it comes to electronics] and Ill sort you some cash.
you should look at doing this as an offered mod - good way to make some money.
12/28/07
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crabster
Zanf: Yeah, I could definitely see this becoming something of a hit actually. They're already cheap, and once freed from the need of a billion midi cables, they're actually usable on the road as well.
12/28/07
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daswesen
I think I want to do that triple MIDI thing before then. I alreayd have some filters working that enable you to change key scalers and things on midi messages, which is a really practical way to extend your nord. Also, MIDI clock sync!!
12/28/07
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crabster
What microcontroller family is it? PIC/AVR/...?
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daswesen
it's an atmega8 in this version, the bigger one has a atmega128 coupled with an atmega8.
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Squeal
I want one of those usb-midi boards. I could plug my midibox guitar controller right into my laptop and power it from there, too!
Second the idea that this could be a big hit. So many devices could benefit from it.
12/28/07
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daswesen
I dunno, you know it's just a standard usb midi adapter. You could buy one, cut off the cables and do it yourself.
edited: Dec 28 2007
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ocp
this is great! no need for drivers on a Mac?
12/28/07
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mapmap
wow! fucking awesome!
i bet a lot of people will be way into this idea!
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daswesen
yah no drivers, just standard usb midi support, so works under windows, macosx and linux.
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