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Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Mcopani — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:48:35 -0000

jeff from syracuse? give mark copani a call @ 4841018

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Tony M — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:55:31 -0000

Someone know where I can get a replacement hexaphonic pickup,I buy an Casio Mg510 whitout hexaponic.Thanks!

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:16:25 -0000

im going to take this step by step and try protools on another pc ... hopefully its just a corrupted protools... well not really :) bur i rather have that be that prob than my gutty being bad :(

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Grantmuller — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:44:56 -0000

I'm not actually sure if those are the bend sensitivity pots or not, but I've never had a problem with bends post-cap replacement. You may want to double-check all of the polarities and values first, though I doubt that would have a dramatic effect on bends either. Barring that, you could experiment with those extra trimpots and see if their is any appreciable difference

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:05:09 -0000

Hi Grant .. i replaced all the caps on my pg 380 and i use my guitar as a trigger into protools (i trigger kontakt and sampletank ect) ok anyways before i changed the caps my guitar used to track perfect in non chromatic mode i was able to string bend using the tremelo ect..now when i hit a note the stringbend sensitivity is too much and it freaks out and causes the wrong notes to soundor mabe a worbleing sound distorting the notes ... is there a bend sensitivity pot....i did notice there are 2 adjustable resisor thing in the lower left of the board could them be it?

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:42:33 -0000

is there a pitch bend sensitivity? in the pg380 ??

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:41:08 -0000

i replaced my caps in my pg380 but now in regular mode it freaks out the the pitch bend when the guitar is connected to mbox and used as a trigger ... any ideas (it never did that before the cap replacement

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:04:23 -0000

dave i need the caps in my 380 replaced can you email me ddropski@gmail.com

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Ddropski — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:02:49 -0000

i am interested in you replacing the caps in my 380 my email is ddropski@gmail.com please get back to me thanks

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

Grant Muller — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:04:28 -0000

Although I think the act of learning a new syntax and all is a nice workout for your mind, it kind of misses the point. I chose a simple Project Euler problem as a proof-of-concept in writing little shell scripts in javascript, which was probably a bad example, since I intend to use this as a general purpose shell-scripting replacement.

I don't write shell scripts that often. When I do, I would usually turn to ruby. Because I don't write shell scripts that often, I don't remember the syntax as well as I might like. If I've got ten minutes to write a one-off shell script because I'm on a tight deadline or I'm trying to repair some catastrophe in the real world, I probably don't want to choose a syntax that requires me to continuously RTFM, wasting valuable time. Since I know javascript, and since node can interpret that for me, it made sense for me to give that a shot and have that in the toolshed for those kinds of scenarios.

Haskell, Scala, Ruby, Lisp, etc are fun and I like to poke around with them. In my mind its the difference between putzing around and doing something. Project Euler is fundamentally putzing around (again, bad example), but since I spend much of my time "doing something" with javascript, giving node a go as my shell-scripting interpreter made sense.

At least for now. Programming languages change with the lunar cycle. Surely in a few years I'll be wielding another hammer.

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

Pete — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:19:41 -0000

Syntax is the most apparent and least interesting part of any given language. I don't think this is in particular a problem that shows much about Javascript; the solution given could be transliterated almost line for line into Ruby, Python, Lua, etc.

I am not quite sure how to phrase it so that I don't sound like a jerk because I'm genuinely wondering, but is it really syntax and your solution to Project Euler #3 that make you want to put a language you already know in the toolshed? Personally, I'm trying to increase the number of languages I use on a daily basis. The strain you get from switching between languages is like muscle cramps after a hard workout: as your strength and flexibility increase, they go away. The broader your working toolset of languages is, the easier it is to come up with a different approach to a problem. A couple of very different takes on the problem, as an illustration:

#!/bin/sh
# If I had to solve this problem at work, I'd go for the short solution.
factor $1 | sed 's/.* //'

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# Lest the other one get me accused of cheating.
BEGIN { p = a = ARGV[1]; for(i = 2; a > 1; i++) { while(!(a%i)) { p = i; a /= i } } print p }

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

Grant Muller — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:41:41 -0000

Actually that's the beauty of it. Other than the #! interpreter mark at the top, and a few node specific calls to process.argv and process.exit, this is just plain ol' javascript. From a process standpoint this allows me to write a bunch of simple logic in chrome, firebug or wherever, then when I'm ready move it over to a full-fledged shell script using node.js as my command line intepreter. neat.

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

guest — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:57:49 -0000

Newbie question:

How is this "Node" rather than just plain Javascript?

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

cstivers78 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:03:38 -0000

Try using Coffee-Script in Node (and Browser). Much more elegant language. I posted a gist with a coffee-script based solution:

https://gist.github.com/226668...

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

Tommy Bergeron — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:36:08 -0000

I know that feel! Did exactly the same thing and honestly: I never regretted it!

Node, once well understood is a total blast I would never go back. Good job on the text by the way hehe

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

maxpert — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:19:22 -0000

You would miss the ease, syntactic sugar, and gems (although ruby is slow). But best of luck!

Re: Ruby, Let’s Take a Break. I Wanna Date Node.js For a While.

PositOrange — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:16:21 -0000

I think that some of the extreme hype regarding Node.js as some sort of magic bullet for scalability is unfortunate because it detracts from the other benefits such as the ability to use one language throughout a project and using the same coding style throughout and the great community around the project. With Coffeescript gaining in popularity and improving some of the rougher and annoying parts of JS, I think more people will be looking at Node.js.
That being said, picking and choosing the right tech for the job is important and I wouldn't automatically pick Node.js for a project without considering if its really needed. But its becoming viable pretty quickly.

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Grant Muller — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:42:07 -0000

I'm not really sure Erik. I haven't encountered one with this particular problem. How frequently does it do that? It doesn't cost much to replace C31, and it wouldn't hurt anything. It'd be worth a try.

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

erik — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:07:59 -0000

Hi all, I looked at the schematics on yahoo groups. C48, L1, C12 -> IC 5, stabilizer -> C30 are all for power supply. C31 for reset signal. Mine is tracks notes great, only completely at random (!) it sends CC all notes off signal (I hope it is a reset triggered) Do you have any ideas why this may happen?

thanks for posting!

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Petrescu Victor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:50:00 -0000

I FOUND THE CASIO MG500/MG510 service and user manual pdf. is very usefull for everything about those guitars specially for reparations.i found the schematics,the tests procedure,what the switches do....
if anyone needs it i`m glad to help you folks.just email me to petrescu.victor@yahoo.com

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Petrescu Victor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:43:40 -0000

i fixed the all the problems about g string and the capacitors.the midi device works almost ok. it`s very hard to set the corect values for strings sensitivities an pickup height.a few notes apear to repeat sometimes but i understand is an old midi device and this is ok for me.

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Grant Muller — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:42:28 -0000

Hmm, it could be similar to Joe Chick's problem below. He has a bad pickup, and you might need a new one. I have only seen on available:

http://www.ubertar.com/hexapho...

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Grant Muller — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:40:01 -0000

Petrescu, I don't have a service manual, but I did do a post on the Casio MG-510 that you might want to take a look at:

http://grantmuller.com/casio-m...

It includes the information about the caps as they originally existed.

Re: Casio MG-510 Midi Guitar

Petrescu Victor — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:03:01 -0000

any ideea whi the G string is not working at all???I meen no midi signal?the guitar is an mg510

Re: Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar

Petrescu Victor — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:09:54 -0000

somebody help me please with the service manual for casio mg 500/510.i have those problms with the capacitors,but someone replaced them before with somes that not matched.please email me:petrescu.victor@yahoo.com