Behringer CMD Micro DJ Midi Controller for use with Flex 6000

William, I really like your programs very much. My CMD and notebook as it looks now:


Small, but works fine. Below are the TRX TS-2000X for V/U/SHF and HF digital modes and the IC-756Pro for CW and PACTOR/AMTOR and above the ID-5100 for D-Star
and the TM-D710 for APRS, the Flex-6500 and lots of TNCs... All controlled by
one notebook, a VAIO I7 QuadCore with 1 TB SSD and 16 gigs RAM.
73, Alex DH2ID

Thanks, it works! And thank you for using the shift key to set two functions for some keys.
Do you think that it is possible to set a second function to the mode knob to change profiles or bands?
73,Alex DH2ID

Hola Salvador, me gusta el TS-2000X porque esta muy bien por las ondas cortas tambien. I especially like the possibility to use it for all digital modes from 160m to 23cm. Saludos, Alejandro

I have kept my 857d for mobile work, as it tunes the ATAS antenna. Of course the TS-2000 is "old technology" but it's noise reduction and DSP is great. And I don't like transverters.

Global and TX. But band changes would be sufficient. I use a lot of different profiles for digi, cw, ssb, fm, vlf and time signals, fax and rtty. All with specific TX settings. I think it would be a bit too complex to make all that changeable.

I would appreciate that very much :-) BTW I will be at the HamRadio fair in June. http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/ Looking forward to meet some Flexers there...

OK - shift mode for band change would be great!

I will be at Friedrichshafen too

Hi William,

It gets better and better.  Thanks!  Glad you're back on the Micro.

I do have a couple of items I'd like to get your thoughts on.

1.  The switch back from 250 Hz. to 50 Hz.step size is very fast.  I've tried to turn the knob fast enough to keep it in 250 Hz. mode but it reverts during each every revolution.  If the revert delay time was just a bit longer it would probably remain in 250 Hz. mode during an entire trip from one part of the band to another.

2. I was wondering if you have had any thoughts on my earlier post regarding a swap of the two sides of the panel.  I don't know if you are right or left handed but I'm a rightly.  When I use my right hand to tune slice A on the left, my arm covers much of the panel.  If I could swap the knobs, I could use my left hand on the volume, AGC, PTT, Etc. without moving my right hand, saving a lot of movement.

Thanks for your consideration & thanks again for the software.  Great stuff.

Bob

Howard, I will be there from Friday to Sunday, QRV on 434.900 simplex and hanging around the FRS stand, of course :-)

WOW! William, you are truly amazing. I'll try this and probably have to take quite a bit more time than you did writing it. Originally I was thinking just the knobs but you've given me a chance to try all kind of arrangements. The way you've done this appears to be universal. I can't imagine anything better than everything. Bob

William,

The knob swap works well. I'll try other buttons after I get home this afternoon.

I think a second look at the gear shift would be a good idea.  The timing seems longer than before but it still won't stay at 250 Hz. no matter how fast I turn the knob.

Are you reinitializing the timer frequently before it reaches zero if the knob speed is still above the "fast" threshold?

I haven't written software in 30-years, during the days of the 8080 and assembly language, but what I describe above is how I would have looked at it then.  I don't know if it applies to today's methods or not.  I hope this helps.

Bob

If the "Gear Shift" on the CMD Micro works like the one on my PL-1, it only works as long as your finger is on the metallic center part of the button.  If you "throw" it and let go, it shifts back into slow mode.  

In the code William wrote for the PL-1, there are two "Shift Levers" for the gear shift.

One is the touch sensitive plate on the knob.  When you touch it, it sends one code, when you release it, it sends a different code.  If you put your finger on this part of the knob, it takes the "Slowdown" part out of the routine.  It still increments at the selected step, but the step gets bumped more often for a given motion of the dial.

The second shifter is the velocity of the spin.  When the spin is above a set level, the step size changes by a factor of 10.  (from 50 to 500 Hz, for example)

But here is the snag.  If I read the code correctly, the X10 shift only engages if you are touching the touch-plate on the knob.  If you let go, the speed and step size change back to normal.

At least this is the way it appears to function at my station.

I actually like the way it functions.  Though a little delay after releasing the touch plate might be OK.

Ken - NM9P

OK.  I kind of like the touch sensitive, because I could get sort of a "low - mid - high" speed shift depending upon where I grabbed the knob.  If I turned it by the top of the knob, it was at 50 Hz, but fairly fast, if I tuned by the rubber "nudge ring" then it was still 50 Hz, but with more precision at a slower rate.  If I turn the knob fast, using the top place, then it really tunes fast at 500 Hz steps.

But the beauty is... to each their own.  The programming is very flexible.  Once you learn the Processing language a little, it is easy to make changes and recompile a version that is exactly what you want.  After you look at the code for a while you start to get it.

I wish I had done this two years ago!  Thanks to William, I will be able to merge his ideas and my own and make the "perfect" controller.  ("Perfect" meaning that it is the way that I want it to be!  ha ha!)  

Ken - NM9P