you are 100% right - any MP# player would do the job. The smaller ones could eve reside
behind the panel out of view - especially if you really hacked up the buttons etc. I just like
the screen etc. giving back feedback but any other player would be fine.

-James

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Silas Johansen" <sijodk@...> wrote:
>
> Does it have to be an iPod With the fancy controls in modern iPods it's
> probably not worth the trouble hacking them when you can get inexpensive
> noname mp3 players with normal pushbuttons that could be hacked in the way
> you describe with relatively little effort. Sure, you might already have
> iPods galore lying around, but we're talking a lot less than the cost of a
> module if you can live with "only" a gigabyte - more than enough for hours
> of live performance, even if you run it constantly.
>
> But I must say I really like your module idea - I might implement it or
> something similar with a non-iPod player.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Silas
>
> On 7/3/07, ersatzplanet <the_ersatz_planet@...> wrote:
> >
> > I had an idea for a wacky module yesterday and thought I would share it.
> > Maybe a person
> > with better electronic chops than me can make one.
> > I offten play with ambient sound backgrounds. I used to use a reel-to-reel
> > with custom
> > tape loops, then a Tascam Porastudio, and now a retired iPod. I have a
> > bunch of them that
> > were given to me by co-workers when they broke. A new hard drive and they
> > work fine. My
> > girlfriend just got a iPod Nano and the thing is so small and compact that
> > I thought one
> > would be great mounted to a panel on my modular. Connect the dock cable to
> > give it
> > power and get the audio from it. Then the good part - control it through
> > the connector
> > too. I see having just the basic controls made CV-able. Have a trigger in
> > that does the
> > previous song selection, a trigger for the next song selection, and both a
> > trigger that
> > toggles play/pause and a gate in that plays on the gate high. The iPod
> > controls are serial
> > in the latest units so that's the circuitry I can't hack but I have an
> > older iPod from when
> > they used the remote control/headphone connector and I may try just
> > "pushing it's
> > buttons" via a electronic switch module. Worth a try. The older hard drive
> > iPods don't react
> > super fast but the flash based units are pretty snappy. it would be fun
> > for timed sound
> > effects or ambient noises. I'm sure Doepfer would not be interested in
> > making one, but I
> > sure would love to have one.
> > For those with the chops here is a site that has the pinouts for the
> > connector and a brief
> > discription of the serial protocol used in the remotes:
> > http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml
> > I can see it as a panel with the nano clipped to it and a connector cable
> > rinning into the
> > panel and 6 jacks below - 4 control ins and 2 audio outs.
> > -James
> >
> >
> >
>
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