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In August, approximately 260 day and evening students joined the School of Law community as the incoming class of 2013. Welcoming the 1Ls at the start of their two-week orientation program, Dean Michael A Simons shared that they were embarking on a journey that would last the rest of their professional lives ― a journey forged on hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and Vincentian commitment to serving the public good. Noting the great support that they will get along the way from faculty, staff and classmates, Dean Simons encouraged the students to be proactive: "Approach your legal education like an entrepreneur. You are the product, and the next three or four years are a time for product development." He also emphasized the importance of balancing academic pursuits with friends, family and activities that make life fulfilling and complete. The newest St. John's Law students are primed to explore the diverse pathways to a rewarding career in the law. Hailing from 108 undergraduate institutions, 21 states in the U.S. and four countries across the globe, the incoming class is 49% women, 51% men and 33% minority. They will benefit from the Law School's renewed focus on career development and experiential learning, and a strong network of alumni who give back to alma mater as mentors, professors and employers. "This is a class of capable students who come to us with the work ethic and determination they need to be successful at St. John's and in the profession," said Robert M. Harrison, Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Financial Services.
Like the new JD candidates, the Law School's incoming LL.M. students are also an impressive group. The LL.M. in Bankruptcy program welcomed 10 new students, all top graduates of some of the best law schools in the country. "We are excited to welcome this exceptional group to our program, which is taught by preeminent judges, practitioners and educators," said Yvette Gutierrez, Director of Bankruptcy Programs. "Our LL.M. in Bankruptcy is an elite and intimate program, and our graduates join a community of successful alumni who work in leading law firms and courts." The three LL.M. programs offered through the Office of Transnational Programs at St. John's Law also welcomed diverse and highly qualified new classes. The LL.M. in International and Comparative Sports Law has 15 new students, the LL.M. in Transnational Legal Practice has 13 newcomers and the LL.M. in U.S. Legal Studies has 16 incoming students. "The Law School is committed to preparing lawyers to serve clients and the public globally," said Christopher J. Borgen, Associate Dean for International Studies."We have designed and expanded our LL.M. offerings and other global programs to help St. John's Law students learn and experience the law in its broad international context." During orientation, the new students took the Introduction to Law class, attended orientation sessions and participated in a range of activities, including welcome barbeques, student-faculty mixers and the annual Fall Fest sponsored by the Law School's Student Bar Association. "The Orientation Program offers students an introduction to the study of law and to the esteemed profession they are joining," said Leslie G. Greenwood, Assistant Dean for Students. "But it also introduces them to their new, close-knit and vibrant Law School community, where they will grow as thinkers, as colleagues, as friends and as future leaders of the legal profession."
Honoring the School's Vincentian tradition, during Orientation, the students joined administrators and faculty for a Day of Service and Reflection. Service projects included working in the soup kitchen at St. John's Bread and Life, staffing a food pantry at Queens North Community Center, and applying an energy-friendly reflective rooftop coating as part of NYC's Cool Roofs project. Students also had the opportunity to be trained in one of the Law School's partner pro bono projects in areas including Housing Court Resolution through the RAP program, family law assistance with Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) and consumer debt issues through the CLARO program at the Queens Volunteer Lawyers Project. "Service Day was an opportunity for the incoming students to begin what we hope will be a career-long commitment to pro bono service and social justice. It also provided the students with an opportunity to bond with classmates over a shared experience of giving back," said Rachel D. Andron, Director of the Public Interest Center. The Law School's Orientation Program continues during the academic year with programs to guide and support students in their academic pursuits, co-curricular activities and career development.


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Lions running back Reggie Bush still isn't quite sure how it happened, but he said he will be back this week after a strange muscle pull in his right calf kept him off the field last week against the Eagles.
Bush pulled up lame moments before the game after aggravating the injury, and went back to the locker room to try to warm up and get it ready, but it wasn't happening.
"I can't even sit here and lie and say I would have been able to push through it," Bush said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. "I couldn't push through it."
The Lions clearly missed him in the snowy loss to the Eagles, after they already deactivated Mikel Leshoure.
"I felt ready to go. Coaches asked me if I was OK to go and I said, 'Yeah, I feel good,'" Bush said. "It's just one of those things. It's honestly never happened to me before. I've never missed a game for a pulled muscle, so I look forward to getting back this week.
"It's very frustrating because what was at stake, playing on the road and just being out there with my teammates," he said. "It's always hard watching from the sideline being a spectator. I hate it, so I look forward to getting back this week."
Bell fumbled twice in the blizzard with an increased workload (23 carries for 69 yards). But if Bush is ready to go Monday against the Ravens,and can get to game time, the Lions have a much better chance of taking another step toward a division title.
The Dallas Cowboys defense took a thumping at the hands of the Chicago Bears on Monday night. A pair of Cowboys defenders also felt the beating in their wallets.
According to the Associated Press, defensive back Orlando Scandrick and defensive end George Selvie each were fined for the league for actions against the Bears in Monday night's 45-28 loss.
Scandrick was fined $21,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit with Chicago receiver Brandon Marshall. Selvie was hit for a hit below the knees of Bears' quarterback Josh McCown – though he didn't reveal the fine amount.
Selvie said he intended to appeal the fine.
Bernard Pollard has racked up many fines this season for illegal hits. However, he won't be getting fined for his hit against Denver Broncos receiver Eric Decker on Sunday.
According to Jim Wyatt and John Glennon of the Tennessean, Pollard said the NFL told him the officials had made a mistake in throwing a flag for an illegal hit against a defenseless receiver.
"They said the ref made a bad call," Pollard said. "It doesn't help us on Wednesday."
Pollard hit Decker shoulder-to-shoulder on the play and was still flagged for an illegal hit. The play came early in the third quarter with the Titans still holding a 21-20 lead over the Broncos. The penalty gave the Broncos a first down at the Titans' 42-yard line. Two passes to Demaryius Thomas later and the Broncos were in the end zone to take a 27-21 lead.
It was a lead the Broncos wouldn't relinquish.
For a player that has been fined over $60,000 this season for illegal plays, Pollard believes referees aren't getting enough scrutiny from the league for missed calls.
"If we make a bad decision in a competitive game when we don't mean to, we are fined 50-plus thousand dollars and some guys $200,000 plus a game check plus suspensions," Pollard said. "But refs are making bad calls and nothing is happening. … And it is messing our group up because we don't know how to play now, as far as how we hit the receivers. It is tough as a defensive back."
The Dallas Cowboys will get a reinforcement back to help try to patch an ailing defensive unit.
According to the Associated Press, the Cowboys have activated defensive end Edgar Jones from the injured reserve list.
Jones was placed on the reserve/designated to return list in October after suffering an abdominal/groin injury. Jones appeared in the first four games of the season for Dallas after being acquired from Kansas City at the end of the preseason. Jones recorded five tackles and a pass defense in those four games.
Jones is eligible to play this week against the Green Bay Packers. The Cowboys' defense is coming off another pathetic on Monday night. The Chicago Bears scored on all eight possessions and Josh McCown threw four touchdowns and ran in for another in handing the Cowboys a 45-28 defeat.
Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery quickly has become a man among boys, using a six-foot, three-inch frame and arms that seem to belong to an even taller man to make acrobatic catches in traffic.
Jeffery's performance and potential will surely make folks who passed on the former South Carolina wideout regret not putting his name on a card.
Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News points out that the Jets surely rue the decision to take receiver Stephen Hill over Jeffery. Hill was the 43rd pick in the 2012 draft; Jeffery went two picks later.
Other teams that surely are muttering profanities when watching Jeffery's sizable sizzle reel include the Rams (who took Brian Quick with the 33rd selection) and the 49ers (who selected A.J. Jenkins with pick 30).
Teams that drafted players at other positions likely are feeling remorse, including the team that used the 42nd overall pick. On a tackle. Named Jonathan Martin.
Between Jeffery and Brandon Marshall, it's hard for the Bears to go wrong at the quarterback position. Whether Jay Cutler or Josh McCown or Cade McNown, plenty of guys would look pretty good with Marshall and Jeffery running the routes and making difficult catches look routine.
Seahawks receiver Percy Harvin continues to struggle with a hip problem that kept him out of action until Week 11, and that has kept him out of action since then.
Harvin didn't practice on Wednesday in advance of a trip to New York to play the Giants, and coach Pete Carroll characterizes Harvin as week-to-week.
"We're trying to figure this thing out and when he gets out on the practice field, then it's truly day-to-day and we'll see how he responds," Carroll said, via quotes distributed by the team. "So as of today, he's not going. He won't be going, he's rehabbing. That means that he's running in his rehab work and we have to see if he can tolerate it and come on back and give us a couple of days work. We'll have to make sure that he's right. So we're going to take our time and I know it seems like, 'How can you take your time when you're this close to the end of the season?' But we still have to do that to take care of him."
Carroll explained that the hip has gotten better and gotten worse.
"It has fluctuated," Carroll said. "He has gone back and forth, where he's gotten close and then it got aggravated a little bit. Just hasn't quite got over the hump where he's really clear. He has a whole lot of new movement in that hip that he hasn't had before and he's trying to become accustomed to that."
The Seahawks have been fine without him. They'll be even better if/when he can play — even if the next time he plays is the next time the Seahawks play in MetLife Stadium.
Mike Shanahan's wide-ranging and at-times rambling Wednesday press conference included plenty of intriguing nuggets. MDS has done a great job of distilling the most salient points.
There's another point that relates back to the report that got this giant ball of dysfunction rolling. Shanahan still hasn't denied the ESPN bombshell that Shanahan nearly quit in January due to the relationship between owner Daniel Snyder and quarterback Robert Griffin III.
"What I said is there's always bits and pieces of an article that are true," Shanahan told reporters. "I'm not going to go into detail what was true about the article. I don't think it's fair to the organization and I would speak to that person first before I would speak to anybody else. But when you get partial truths — and I'm not one to say somebody is lying or this isn't reported correctly — but I've heard that my whole life. I think everybody in this room knows that I don't talk to anybody off the record."
If Shanahan truly doesn't talk to anybody off the record, he's the only person connected to the NFL in any significant capacity who doesn't.
Everybody talks to somebody off the record. With local and national media more prevalent and aggressive than ever, everyone knows someone they'll talk to without attaching their name to it.
In this case, Shanahan or someone close to him was talking off the record to someone at ESPN. The fact that Shanahan has failed to dispute the notion that he was ready to quit in January proves it.
For more and more NFL teams, the time of the year has come to think about next year.
In a salary-cap environment, one of the biggest things about which to think is the spending limit. Per multiple reports, league owners were told at Wednesday's quarterly meeting that the salary cap for 2014 currently is expected to be $126.3 million per team.
That's a $3.3 million increase from the current maximum, which translates to an increase of only 2.68 percent over last year.
The cap has grown slowly in recent years due in large part to unexpectedly high benefits costs. Since the 2011 labor deal was finalized, accounting creativity has been needed in order to ensure an uptick in the cap. In 2012, for example, a little pigskin-style robbing of Peter to pay Paul was needed to prevent the spending limit from actually dropping.
The cap is expected to continue to make slow, steady growth. A larger bump is possible in 2015, the first year in which the calculations will take into account the new broadcast contracts, which start in 2014.
John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach and longtime broadcaster, has a problem with Washington coach Mike Shanahan's decision to sit Robert Griffin III for the rest of the season to ensure he'll be healthy for the offseason.
Madden said on Madden Football on SiriusXM NFL Radio that players and teams owe it to the league to play to win, and Madden believes that if Griffin is healthy enough that he'd be playing if Washington were fighting for a playoff berth, he ought to be playing now.
"I do know this: when the going goes tough you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction. I think you stay with what you believe you stay with who you are, you stay with what you are. And we have an integrity piece here, too," Madden said, via Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post. "You can say well they're 3-10, they're out of it, so now they can do these things. No you can't. This is still regular-season football. Draft order, that's one small thing, but you still owe it to the people that are playing, that are still in the playoff picture. And when you can affect that and you don't affect it with an all-out performance, then I think that affects the integrity of the game. . . . If you're in the regular season, there's only one way to play, and that's to play your best people to win the game, every regular season game."
Madden said he fundamentally disagrees with Shanahan's view that keeping Griffin healthy for the offseason is more important than playing him in the final three games of the regular season.
"I mean, you know it's baloney," Madden said. "I like Mike Shanahan, and I'm not talking behind his back, but when you say something like that, you know that's not right — you're not going to sacrifice regular season games. There's only 16 of them a year. You're not going to sacrifice regular season games for an offseason program."
But sacrificing regular season games for an offseason program is exactly what Shanahan says he's doing with Griffin.
Over the weekend, we reported that the NFL has been discussing and will continue to discuss the possibility of taking replay review out of stadiums and moving it to a central location.
On Wednesday, at a quarterly ownership meeting in Dallas, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that such a change is being considered.
Per Albert Breer of NFL Network, Goodell acknowledged that V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino could be directly involved in the replay function.
"Our number one focus is to make sure we're providing the best officiating," Goodell said, via NFL.com. "We always think we can improve. Consistency is important. By bringing it into the league office on Sundays and having one person actually making that decision, you can make an argument there's consistency."
It looks like that one person would be Blandino. And that makes sense. Since he's the one who draws the short straw when it comes to explaining the mistakes made by guys like Jeff Triplette, why not just have Blandino make the decisions in the first instance, under circumstances far more conducive to making an efficient and ultimately reliable decision?
Ravens safety Matt Elam is 5-foot-10 and 210 pounds, while Lions receiver Calvin Johnson is 6-foot-5 and 236 pounds. So it wouldn't seem to benefit Elam to try to get physical with Megatron when the two meet on Monday night.
But Elam, a 22-year-old rookie, says that when taking on an old guy like the 28-year-old Johnson, you always have to get physical.
"He's pretty old, so I don't know how physical he'll be," Elam said. "He's a big guy, but he's older. I guess when they get older they're not going to be as physical, you know what I'm saying? We're going to have to be physical, make him uncomfortable."
Elam also said that Johnson is a "Big, fast, athletic, unstoppable, freak," but you can bet those "old" comments will make their way to the Lions' locker room. The Lions have previously acknowledged getting motivation from opposing teams snubbing Megatron, such as the time then-Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan said Johnson would only be the third-best receiver on the Cowboys. After Ryan made those comments, Johnson scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns in leading Detroit to a come-from-behind victory over Dallas.
In a big game for both teams' playoff hopes, Ravens fans will have to hope Johnson doesn't make Elam eat his words.
After eight years on the job, NFL executive V.P. of football operations Ray Anderson has decided to leave the league office.
The NFL announced the decision on Wednesday. In a release, the league said that Anderson will be pursuing other opportunities.
"I have been involved in many different aspects of the NFL — as an agent, club executive, and league executive," Anderson said. "I have always enjoyed new challenges and the time is right for me to evolve into the next phase of my career. I appreciate the opportunity Commissioner Goodell gave me and the support I have enjoyed from a great staff."
Anderson was a central figure in last year's lockout of game officials. It was believed by some in the wake of the lockout that Anderson would be nudged out of his job. He wasn't.
In January, word surfaced that Raiders owner Mark Davis possibly would hire Anderson into a "senior executive front office job" in Oakland. At the time, Amy Trask was serving as the team's CEO. She has since resigned.
It'll be interesting to see how Anderson's job is filled. Last year, when we were informed that Anderson would not be fired, we also were told that key management positions no longer will go automatically to "football people" who graduated from other jobs in the football business to significant jobs in the league office. The league could start looking for folks from other industries who have demonstrated the ability to handle high-paying, high-profile, high-power jobs that entail operating under a high-powered microscope.
Whoever gets the job, that person's first order of business could be to finalize the penalty imposed on the Steelers for coach Mike Tomlin's sideline side-step right. Anderson made the initial determination regarding the imposition of a $100,000 fine on Tomlin. Eventually, a draft-pick forfeiture or modification will be determined.
The 49ers solidified their playoff chances with a victory over the Seahawks last weekend and cornerback Carlos Rogers will join us to talk about it on Wednesday's edition of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN.
Rogers will share with Erik Kuselias his thoughts about the team's confidence level coming out of that win as well as his general observations about whether it has been harder than expected to come back from a trip to the Super Bowl. They'll also talk about the loss of Dashon Goldson and defensive backs hitting low during the course of the conversation.
It's also time to start looking ahead to some of the matchups coming our way in Week 15. The PFT crew will start breaking down the storylines you need to keep in mind as we make our way toward Sunday.
It all gets started at 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
Ben Roethlisberger isn't the only two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback whose contract has become a ball and chain for his team.
Eli Manning of the Giants also has a contract that eats up too much cap room. And so he says he's willing to alter his deal to create cap space.
"I haven't thought about it, but if they come to me, yeah, we'll discuss it and figure out a plan," Manning said Wednesday, via Jordan Ranaan of NJ.com.
Signed through 2015 at salaries of $15.15 million and $17 million over the next two seasons (via NFLPA records), the question isn't whether Eli is willing to move money around for cap purposes while ultimately taking the same amount of money. The question is whether he'll sign a new contract that extends beyond 2015 and that pays him less than the current market value for franchise quarterback, which is in the range of $20 million per year.
Via Spotrac.com, Eli counts for $20.4 million and $19.75 million over the next two years under the cap. Getting those numbers down while also getting Manning paid in line with other quarterbacks who have fewer Super Bowl rings (including Aaron Rodgers, Joe Flacco, Drew Brees, and Matt Ryan) will be a challenge.
Plenty of players are willing to restructure their deals, since that usually means converting a large chunk of the coming year's base salary into a signing bonus, resulting in the player getting no less money. With Eli having only two years under contract beyond 2013, a so-called "simple restructuring" isn't a viable option.
The Giants need to extend Eli's contract, and there will be nothing simple about determining the right long-term value to a player who has won a pair of Super Bowls but who has missed the playoffs in four of the last five seasons.
The Broncos waited as long as they could before officially ruling wide receiver Wes Welker out for Thursday night's game against the Chargers, but there was no way to avoid the obvious when they released their final injury report for the game on Wednesday.
Welker has been ruled out after his second concussion in the last two weeks and will miss a regular season game for the first time since 2010. Defensive end Derek Wolfe has also been ruled out for the third straight game after he suffered seizure-like symptoms before the team's trip to Kansas City to face the Chiefs.
Cornerback Champ Bailey played in that game, one of only three he's been able to play this season, but didn't play against Tennessee last week because of his injured foot. If he can't go, the Broncos will have Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Chris Harris and Tony Carter to throw at the Chargers receivers.
Keenan Allen will definitely be an object of their attention as he's probable after last weekend's shoulder injury. Eddie Royal is questionable with a toe injury, however, so the Chargers offense may not be at full strength once they make a final call on his availability.


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The inspectors are not in Iraq to play hide and seek with Mr. Saddam Hussein … So far, the signs are not encouraging.
— President George W. Bush on December 2, 2002
Would U.S. military action against Iraq meet the requirements of the just-war tradition, the standard by which most Americans have long judged the legitimacy and morality of military action?
Influential voices differ. The U.S. Catholic bishops, for instance, recently suggested that the just-war tradition raises "serious questions about the moral legitimacy of any preemptive, unilateral use of military force to overthrow the government of Iraq."
These three issues — preemption (just cause), unilateralism (competent authority) and regime change as an explicit war aim (right intention) — are the three paramount concerns of the just-war tradition regarding proper resort to force. What is more, all three grounds are better understood as moral imperatives for military action against Iraq in the service of justice, order, and peace.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth of a five-part analysis of the legal and moral aspects of the confrontation with Iraq. (Read Part III here, II here, and Part I here.)
The just-war tradition offers a moral framework for relating ends and means in considering whether and how armed force may be permissible or even required. It reflects the collective legacy of Western thought — both religious and secular — in grappling with enduring moral concerns where the stakes are literally matters of life and death. Despite its religious origins — in the duty to defend innocent life (and the common good) from unjust aggression as a matter of charity or love of neighbor — the tradition also finds expression in thoroughly secular forms that do not rely on religious grounds. And it forms the basis for much of modern international law, especially regarding the proper use of force.
The just-war tradition raises the relevant moral issues in ways that people of good faith can readily grasp and argue with one another, though they may well reach differing conclusions in particular cases (including Iraq). Over the past decade it was chiefly in terms of this tradition — though not always explicitly, to be sure — that Americans sought to relate ends and means in connection with the use of force in the Gulf War and the former Yugoslavia. In fact, anyone rejecting the claim that "anything goes" in relation to self-defense is already thinking in just-war categories.
The tradition is not, however, a set of abstractions capable of mechanical application yielding predictable or indisputable conclusions. Despite its antiquity, the tradition also possesses the flexibility to take into account authentically new questions raised by the changing international landscape — such as the rise of mass-casualty terrorism and non-state actors like al Qaeda — and the changing face of modern warfare — including WMD and precision-guided munitions.
Just-war reasoning begins with two sets of related questions: whether in a particular situation it is morally permissible to resort to war (ius ad bellum); and, if so, what is right conduct within war (ius in bello). Whether force is permitted or even required must be determined affirmatively before considering how it may be used.
Historically the threshold question of permission has required a just cause, a decision by proper authority with the right intention, as well as the judgments that there is a reasonable hope of success, that the expected good will outweigh the expected evil (overall proportionality) and that war is a last resort waged for the goal of peace. The question of limitation in turn requires discrimination (avoidance of direct, intentional harm to noncombatants) and proportionality of means (avoidance of needless destruction to achieve justified ends).
As noted above, one thoughtful recent application of the just-war tradition to Iraq is the September 13 statement issued on behalf of some 300 U.S. Catholic bishops serving some 63 million U.S. Catholics. This careful, nuanced statement, written for the guidance of Catholics and non-Catholics alike, explicitly leaves room for legitimate disagreement: "People of good will may apply ethical principles and come to different prudential judgments, depending on their assessment of the facts at hand and other issues." The bishops' collective judgment, however, is that U.S. military action against Iraq "is difficult" — though not impossible — "to justify at this time" on grounds of just cause, competent authority and right intention.
JUST CAUSEbr/> Just cause exists when force is used to defend against attack, recover something wrongly taken or punish wrongdoing. While modern interpretations generally emphasize defense as the sole permissible reason to use force, this category has expanded in practice to include the other two grounds, as in the case of Kuwait (retaking a wrongly occupied state) and Kosovo (halting egregious violations of international human rights norms).
Both the tradition as a whole and its two foremost modern interpreters — James Turner Johnson and Michael Walzer — explicitly agree that just cause embraces the preemptive use of force. Walzer cites Daniel Webster's formulation in the Caroline case (see article 3) in support of preemption as a morally legitimate exercise of force in proper circumstances:
Imagine a spectrum of anticipation: at one end is Webster's reflex, necessary and determined; at the other end is preventive war, an attack that responds to a [more] distant danger, a matter of foresight and free choice …. The line between legitimate and illegitimate first strikes is not going to be drawn at the point of imminent attack but at the point of sufficient threat …. a manifest desire to injure, a degree of active preparation that makes that intent a positive danger, and a general situation in which waiting, or doing anything other than fighting, greatly magnifies the risk.
Where does Iraq stand today on this "spectrum of anticipation"? Its undeniable threat must be judged by its gravity, imminence and the level of certainty needed for military action — all measurable by degrees.
Capacity alone does not pose an actionable threat, but Iraq's actual and threatened WMD use, its ongoing development efforts — both in defiance of international law — and the proven inseparability of the regime and its unconventional arsenal all clearly indicate the requisite hostile intent. The potential harm of these weapons must also be considered in light of Saddam's demonstrated propensity for risk-taking and revenge. Given its role in thwarting Saddam's regional ambitions, the U.S. in particular faces threats that are not distributed evenly across the international community (or the 15-member UN Security Council). Iraq's figurehead vice president recently declared Iraq's "right to confront the aggressors on its [sic] land and in any place the aggressors are found." "An enemy is an enemy," he continued, "any American, British or Zionist interests on Arab lands or within reach of Arabs, wherever they are, I consider as legitimate [targets]."
Imminence is unlikely to be established by an evidentiary "smoking gun" short of a mushroom cloud over an incinerated American city. This lack of perfect certainty derives from the closed nature of Iraq's tiny ruling circle, the probable lack of reliable human intelligence, and the circumspection dictated by U.S overhead surveillance and signals interception capabilities. In these circumstances, publicly available evidence may not satisfy the expectations of a culture accustomed to unrealistic standards of proof derived from TV police and courtroom dramas. Meanwhile, Iraq's nuclear weapons program in particular proceeds apace, thus shrinking the opportunity to act without risking nuclear threats to vital U.S. interests — including American cities. As Henry Kissinger properly concludes, "If the danger exists today" — as it surely does in Iraq's proven CW and BW capacity — "waiting will only magnify the dangers for blackmail."
This "grave and gathering danger" also must be considered in its proper context — the September 11 attacks — whether or not Iraq was directly involved. These attacks (a) set a new and previously unthinkable threshold for mass-casualty terrorism, (b) destroyed any illusion of immunity or exceptionalism on the part of a vast continental nation protected by broad oceans and friendly neighbors and (c) made wholly unacceptable any further tolerance of international terrorism's state sponsors. Iraq may not be the most active state sponsor of terrorism — that's Iran's dubious distinction — but it poses by far the most immediate threat. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Finally, preemption is not intended as a general doctrine for routine application, but rather an exceptional measure reserved for the gravest and most imminent threats. Nor is it by any means a novel practice. President Bush recently acknowledged this by quoting President Kennedy's memorable admonition delivered during the Cuban missile crisis: "Neither the United States of America, nor the world community of nations, can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world," Kennedy added, "where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril."
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Nicholeen Peck is the mother of four and previous foster parent of many difficult and troubled teens. The Peck family's success with these difficult children was based upon calmness, the principles of self-government, and good communication. She has been teaching people around the world the principles of Self-Government since 1999. In 2009, Nicholeen and her family were featured in a one hour BBC documentary about parenting. She has appeared on various news shows and radio programs to discuss effective parenting. Nicholeen offers her teaching in a variety of ways including seminars, personal coaching, home visits, video, audio classes and in books. She is the author of Parenting A House United, and a series of children's picture books which teach four basic skills of self-government to children. She also writes for various blogs and online magazines.
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Building MIDIBox for MIDIfied Hammond Organ
#1 Guest_oldmacman_*
Posted 27 April 2004 - 03:07
Reads 32 pots and 32 switches, including ones that aren't momentary contact (the preset keys, etc.)
No LCD
Would I have to make any modifications to MIOS to get this to work? I've never done any PIC programming before.
Posted 27 April 2004 - 19:17
#3 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 01:29
If you're trying to build a Native Instruments B4 controller, then your MIDIbox will need to be able to read the drawbar positions and transmit MIDI controller messages. MIDIbox can easily handle the keyboard encoding but you only need one bus and not the other eight. But I wouldn't delete or remove the switch contacts because that would lighten the touch a little on the keys. The preset keys on the Hammonds are like radio buttons so you might have issues with switches that aren't momentary. If I were doing it, I'd remove the latching hardware and install LEDs just above the preset keys to indicate the active preset. You don't need to have a LCD but it would be simpler if you had one.
You will have to build a MIOS application but Thorsten has made the programming as easy as possible. Several of us have been working on B4 controllers. Perhaps we should get together and establish the specifications for a MIOS MIDIBoxB4 application that is as universal as possible.
I want to build a B4 controller from a single 44-key M3 keyboard and a single set of nine drawbars. The M3 had no presets so I would just use push buttons for the presets. I'd use an LCD display to show the drawbar positions of the presets. When the "B natural" preset is selected the drawbars are the controllers.
If you're trying to MIDIfy a Hammond Organ, that's going to be a lot harder to do...
#4 Guest_oldmacman_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 02:37
As far as the keyboard encoding goes, there is an encoder at http://www.geocities...yb/midikeyb.htm that will encode a 61 key manual to MIDI. The PCB design by Vern Jones provides an additional multiplexer to work with busbar-style keying. If I can do the keyboard encoding with MIDIbox alone, without needing an additional encoder, that would be great as well.
Could MIDIbox just see the drawbars as sliding potentiometers, with each additional click of the drawbars adding an additional resistor into the circuit? That's how it's done with the B4ce encoder for Hammond at http://www.geocities...e/B4ce/B4ce.htm
That's a good idea with the presets. I'd also like to have the capability for presets to work as they do on a real Hammond, where the Bb and the B make the organ use the settings on the drawbars and the rest of the preset keys make the organ use presets.
#5 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 08:47
Classical organ combination actions are usually triggered by thumb studs under each manual instead of the "radio button latching keyboard" method used by Hammond. So, I would just add an arrangement of black and white buttons with LEDs just under the last octave of each manual. When a preset button is pressed, the drawbars move to their stored position and the LED above the thumb stud lights. To store a new position, simply move the drawbars as you wish, press another button to tell MIDIBox that you're storing a new preset and press the appropriate preset button to store that drawbar position to that button.
Thousands of tonewheel organ owners wish that could be added to their organs.
Press the button under the bottom C and the motorfaders pull all the drawbars to zero. This is as close to the cancel key as I can dream up. The high B and A#would be special presets that MIDIBox would store automatically any time another preset were selected. When the B or A# is pressed, the drawbars return to the last position they were in when another preset was selected (for the ultimate in reality, you could wire up the percussion button to automatically turn off when using any preset other than B... : ). That is the closest thing I can imagine on an M3 to the B3's presets without major work...
Thorsten has indicated that the motorfaders move very, very fast. ;D
#6 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 09:35
A digital input multiplexer is a standard part of the MIOS system. Up to 128 inputs are possible without too much effort other than additional PCBs. More than 128 inputs are possible by multiplexing the multiplexed lines (if you know what I mean) but you'd have to do the programming and it would be a rather non-standard implementation. For reasons I'll expain below, I'd stick with the standard.
Using the drawbars as they are in the Hammond is certainly possible. As I understand the B4, it is looking for MIDI controller messages that are linear and are not tied to the 9 drawbar positions ( 0 - 8 ) since most MIDI controllers have strictly linear slide pots and not drawbars. MIDIBox should be able to let you set certain resistance points in reading the drawbars to equal MIDI controller messages but you might have to do some coding to make it happen. I have a set of M3 drawbars in front of me and I don't know whether to stick with all those contacts designed to directly attenuate analog audio signals or just strip the drawbar and knob and attach them to a 10k slide pot like MIOS expects...
You should look at the pipe organ messages in this Forum section. They need to use multiple cores in their MIDIfication and I think you will too. First of all, you need more than 128 inputs. Just for the keys alone, you need 61+61+25 = 147. Then you need inputs for percussion switches, vibrato, the presets, etc. Then there are number of B4 controls that would work great as encoders, instead of pots (i.e. Amplifier Drive, Leslie Acceleration, etc.). Encoders use two digital inputs each. Finally, I believe that B4 is expecting the manuals and pedal are on individual MIDI channels (i.e. Upper on Channel 1, Lower on Channel 2 and Pedals on Channel 3, etc.) which would be easier done on a core by core basis.
Here's how I'd do it. One core for the Swell, one for the Great and one for the pedal clavier. A kit in the US is $25 a core, not including shipping. The software needs to be developed, of course. The basic MIOS B4 application would be designed to work as nearly as possible the same way on each core. The cores are easily connected together and one MIDI Out to your PC running B4. The first 61 inputs on each core are the keyboard inputs (yes, that means you could have a 61 key pedal board but consistency is really good...). The next 12 inputs are the presets, then the remaining inputs like vibrato, Leslie on-off, etc. The first nine analog inputs would be the drawbars, then the swell (it's gotta be in there somewhere...), etc. You should provide for using either pots or encoders for some of the B4 functions like Leslie speed, amplifier drive, etc. Remember that B4 has presets, but so can your MIDIBox controller. Encoders are generally considered more desirable than pots because no matter what value is stored in your MIDIBox preset, the encoder can be turned up or down without worrying about the end of rotation.
Another reason to use a single core per manual is some folks, (like me!) want to just do a single manual controller for B4. If we get a one manual MIDIBoxB4 working, the other two are easy! To further mix things up, I'm also trying to control the weak implementation of a drawbar organ in some models of Yamaha's digital pianos (they omit the 1 3/5' drawbar which is badly out of tune in a Hammond anyway and add some extra percussion features that I wish a Hammond had...) If we (and there are a couple more of us looking at building a B4 controller) line out a standard for ins/outs, etc., then oddballs like my Yamaha application are actually easier.
#7 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 10:48
Note that B4 expects that the MIDI control message will be the following for each drawbar position:
Drawbar Hex
0 00
6 63
7 72
So to use standard Hammond drawbars, MIDIBox would have to read the analog resistance of the drawbar and convert that resistance to one of the nine hex numbers above for B4 to recognize the drawbar position.
Posted 28 April 2004 - 20:03
@Jim: I would skip the idea of using motor faders. Reason: You would have to sync the movement of the motor fader to the movement of the drawbar (db): You have 128 steps for one controller. if the db is moved for one position it means an increasement of the midi controller value of 16 (decimal). With the fader moving for an midi value increment of 16 this length must be fitting to your db. Might be a difficult thing to do.
I will use LEDs indicating db position instead. The same way as the guys from Clavia used the LEDs on the Clavia Nord Electro: Take a look.
But I need some more LEDs. ;)
24 x 8 LEDs for the db
4 LEDs for Drive , Percussion, 2x Vibrato
6 LEDs for Chorus Vibrato Selector
10 LEDs for Bank Select Indication
9 LEDs for Harmonic Selector
24 LEDs for Preset Selection
3 LEDs as Leslie speed indication
That makes 248 LEDs. ;D Just timemultiplex them and everything will be fine.
Encoders for the other features would be fine. But I think that I don't need them. I think I only need the drive section and the Vibrato Selection to change live on the fly. All other features of the B4 will be saved in presets.
But that doesn't mean we should skip the code for all the others features: I would suggest we code an full featured implementation of the B4 and while building your box leave out all the things you don't need.
Feature list:
61 switches for upper keyboard
61 switches for lower keyboard
25 switches for pedal
24 switches for Preset Keys
6 switches for Drive, Percussion, 2x Vibrato, Rotator, Velocity (I think we could just skip the last 2 switches I won't turn the Rotator Off or the Veloctiy On, but who knows)
10 position switch for Bank Select
9 Position switch for Harmonic Select (could be solved as 25th drawbar instead, what do you think?)
6 position switch for Chorus Vibrato Selector (Keyboard View)
24 analog inputs for the db
2 Encoders for Percussion volume and decay
2 Encoders for Vibrato mix and depth
1 Encoders for keyboard click
4 Encoders for drive section
8 Encoders for rotor section
4 Encoders for microphone section
1 analog input (volume pedal) for swell (the length of the connection calbe might become a problem as T.K. mentioned in one thread that they shoulln't get too long)
3 position switch for the Halfmoon Leslie
Yes, I would like to have a 3 position switch in order to add something the guys from N.I. didn't think of: Leslie Brake. This can be achieved by setting both rotor slow controller values to zero. Shouldn't be a problem at all.
So we need 205 switches (digital inputs) 25 analog inputs and 21 digital inputs for the encoders. That could ask too much of one single core, what do you think? ;)
Thus, 248 digital outputs for the LEDs. (Which could archieved by 4 multiplexed DOUT Modules
Ah, to add just another thing. It could be possible to indicate midi value of the encoders with LED rings ass well. I don't need it. Whats up with you, guys ?
So. Writing that all took a lot of time (especially when you're not a native english speaker/writer). Hope to read from you soon).
#9 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 28 April 2004 - 21:17
I am very, very grateful to all to whom English is not their native language for taking the time on this forum to use English. There is not one of us to whom English IS their native language who has not struggled with its weird spelling, awkward grammar and seeming endless tendency to steal words from other languages. Your English, Andreas, is excellent.
I'll answer your message in more detail later tonight. I may still toy with the idea of the motorfaders later but not for MIDIBoxB4. For one thing, 24 drawbars would require a minimum of three cores.
I think two cores will work just fine for a full implementation. Organized properly, one core will handle a single keyboard and two cores will handle two manuals and the pedals. I guess if you do want LED rings, then additional output multiplexing will be needed. The LCD display will show the encoder position any way and I don't see microphone position, accel speeds, etc. as really needing LED rings. I agree the LED drawbar indicators are really desirable (like the Nord), but the drawbar positions could also be shown on the LCD display so they're not really manditory either.
More later.
Posted 28 April 2004 - 23:58
"I'll answer your message in more detail later tonight. I may still toy with the idea of the motorfaders later but not for MIDIBoxB4. For one thing, 24 drawbars would require a minimum of three cores. "
You mean 3 cores are needed if motor fader are used, right ?
That is true.
@LEDs: I don't need LED rings for the encoders either. A LCD displaying drawbarsettings will be fine aswell, but I'd like to have those LEDs cause I'm planning to use the MidiBoxB4 on stage and I'd like to "see what I get".
@one core for 2nd keyboard and pedal:
I searched the archiv and found the old post (it was in the german section). "Spanky" was asking about the max cable length between core and devices like switches or pots etc. Thorsten said everything longer 1m (3 feet) might get critical. "Spanky" tried it out with a cable of 3 meter (10 feet) (only switches were connected) and it worked well, so it looks like this problem is solved too.
Since some time I'm thinking of adding a second db set for the upper manual (like the big Hammonds have) with a button (not one of the preset keys, an additional key) to switch between the two sets.
Programming all the stuff in MIOS could become a problem. But I think if we're all working together it shoulnd't be a problem at all. Just in case we're stuck, I know a good forum to post our problems ;)
Take care
#11 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 29 April 2004 - 00:58
Or, you could ignore the B4 presets completely and just use MIDIBoxB4 to store and recall the presets and simply issue the drawbar positions to B4 when each new MIDIBoxB4 preset is selected. B4 would act only as the sound engine.
Does this make sense?
Posted 29 April 2004 - 01:32
You can add me too in the MB64-B4 project. I have almost finished the whole MB64 circuit and I am in the stage of designing the case before soldering the pots and the drawbars (I am using actual drawbars, borrowed the idea form Andreas - borntob4).
After reading the thread, I agree with Andreas that the MB64 - B4 application must be designed so as to fully cover the controls of the b4 software. Upon the realisation of the I have a suggestion to make derived from my own experience with my b-4 project.: I am going to to incorporate to my project only the controls of the B4 panel - NOT the manuals (I will be using two Roland 76-key Keybords for the 2 manuals and will later at some point buy or build a midi pedal). In order to achieve full b4 panel control PLUS control for the bass pedal only one MB64 (one core) is needed. If one wants to midify 2 manuals (e.g. two Hammond manuals) then the most appropriate platform for achieving this is the MB128 . Every key will need to be connected to a digital input. So in order to connect 2 manuals one one needs 61 + 61 = 122 digital inputs. The MB128 has 128 digital inputs, so you can connect 2 manuals and have 6 more digital inputs to use for somenting else (e.g. 1 rotary encoder for prgr change and the 4 menu buttons).
So I would suggest if one makes a MIOS B4 application, the entire panel control should be designed for one core (one MB 64). If one wants to midify 2 manuals this is already achieveable by using the MB128 and program it to send just midi note on messages when the keys connected are pressed and midi note off messages when the keys are not pressed. To summarize, full B4 control can be achieved with MB platforms this way
1 x MB128: the 2 manuals only
1 x MB64: Everything else
One more thing: about the multiplexed LEDs idea, I think that this cannot be done with the current MB64 firmware because the LEDs are designed to respond to the digital in functions and NOT to external messages (I hope I am wrong). If it could be possible to alter that, then I think that the 64 Digital outputs of the MB64 are enough for thsi job
I hope we make something good out of this exchange of experiences!!
Best regards
#13 Guest_oldmacman_*
Posted 29 April 2004 - 02:21
I think we don't need quite so many LEDs. It's an organ, after all, and I'd like to use this to make something that feels like a Hammond. You don't need LEDs to show where the drawbars are. As for the rotating encoders, I'd much rather have regular pots so I can feel where they are without having to look.
The presets should be stored in the MIDIBox itself so I can have the same presets no matter which computer I use the organ with.
For the time being, I think I'm just going to build two 64-key keyboard encoders for the manuals and 2 MIDIBox Plus modules to use for the drawbars.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 04:04
First of all.
@Jim: "As far as I know, B4 does not report back to the controller the position of the drawbars for their internal presets."
Fortunately you're wrong. As I know from the Keyboards forum (german keyboards magazine) and just tested myself (I hooked the B4 to a MIDI monitor of my MIDITEMP PM-88E (a midimerger and midimatrix)) the B4 reports every MIDI-event to the MIDI-Out of your soundcard (which can be connected to the In-Port of the Core) and therefore it is possible to let N.I. B4 controll the LEDs.
@Dimitris: With your MB64 beeing ready you might be done. All you wanted were those drawbars, switches and pots. You only have to configure your box and your done. Or am I wrong. Flash the MB64 software to your core and link the events to your input devices with serge's editor and go B4ing.
@oldmacman: first of all welcome to the project.
Your right, it's only an organ, but I made some expierence with a Hammond XB-2 (digital clone) in a rock cover band. In a band you often have thousands of sounds that are linked to special songs or even certain parts of songs. Using the presets gives you no controll of your settings (no display except the screen). the XB-2 had a small display indicating your drawbar settings after using a preset key. that was crappy, because it was a little bit tiney and you had no idea if you have choosen the right presets. With LEDs indicating your settings you "see what you're getting/hearing". If I wouldn't need the LEDs - to be honest- I think I would go and buy JD Pedkov's circuit:
That would save time (=money) (I know you guys living in the U.S. wouldn't think of it because of the shipping costs).
@all: I think the project should be organized this way:
Core 1: handling the upper manual and everything else besides lower manual and pedal clavier
That makes 119 switches, 25 analog inputs (db and swell pedal) and 21 digital inputs (question is still: do we need encoders. I'm not shure. Maybe pots are enough. Using pots would simplify the amplication, I would say.)
Plus the LED (in my opinion/case). As I mentioned before we just talking about all the things to add for programming. Oldmacman, in case you don't like the LEDs (it's also a matter of money, LEDs are expensive and I have no idea how to integrate them to the cabinet) leave them and the DOUT-PCBs out.
And one core is able to do it (see MIOS specs).
Core 2: based on MIDIO128 handling lower manual and pedal board
It's getting late. Hope to read from you soon.
#15 Guest_JimCook_*
Posted 29 April 2004 - 08:45
I think that the first core should not only support the controls but a least one keyboard as well. Andreas, the published specs for MB64 indicate that "up to 64 Push-Buttons" are supported. So it would appear that, without recoding MB64, it couldn't support a 61 note manual and everything else we want to do. MB64 also won't give Andreas enough outputs for the LED drawbars...
How about this idea? As Dimitris suggests, all B4 controls, other than manual keyboard scanning and LED drawbar indicators are handled in the first core. There should be enough digital inputs left (Dimitris, is this correct?) in MB64 to encode the 25 pedals. This will allow someone to build DIY pedals to use with two MIDI keyboard controllers and the B4 controls. The drawbar positions can be displayed on the LCD.
To encode the two 61 key manuals and/or display the drawbar positions as LEDs. MB128 will be used as the second core. I'm very glad to hear, Andreas, that B4 sends the controller settings out when the presets are selected. That makes things much easier.
So, Dimitris, have you established your I/O assignments? How do you have the analog inputs, digital outputs, etc. connected to MB64?
Andreas, at current exchange rates, Petkov's PCB costs $190 US plus shipping. I'll stick with SmashTV's prices and far cheaper shipping... Also, I think with all of us working together, we'll get a better product. Because I have a MIDI keyboard controller I'm tempted to follow along behind Dimitris and get the control stuff working before I tackle my keyboard. From what I read about MB128, it should be very, very easy to encode your keyboard and drive the drawbar LEDs.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 10:30
Nope, that doesn't work out. We need 58 switches for the console keys including presets. MB64 supports only 64 switches. But we need 83 for adding pedal switches to the function switches. But we could use analog inputs for Bank Select and Precussion Harmonic Select (e.g. analog pot. rather than switch input). That would save 19 switches and it would work.
" Andreas, at current exchange rates, Petkov's PCB costs $190 US plus shipping. I'll stick with SmashTV's prices and far cheaper shipping... Also, I think with all of us working together, we'll get a better product. "
I fully agree with you. While working all togeher we can develop a more powerful circuit than JDPedkov's.
Later more from me
Posted 29 April 2004 - 17:19
If it doesn't, never mind. It wouldn't kill your budget to use 3 core for the project (one additional for the pedal bass).
But we don't need to work further on because (as far as I understood the MB64) everything is already prepared and has only to be configured with "serge's editor". Same with MIDIO128 for all of us who like to have keyboards. Only the LED-thing has to be coded. >:(
Posted 29 April 2004 - 21:14
I am very glad this discussion is growing
Jim I have not yet connected anyhting to the MB circuit. I have just completed (almost) all the soldering of the components on the PCB, so I am now at the process of designing the actual case of the controller (I think I ll make it out of wood - it adds a more "vintage" touch) and afterwards I will connect the pots and buttons. It is more convenient this way, since, after you have the housing of the project ready, you can calculate more accurately the length of the cables, where you want your PCB to be screwed on etc. I had actually made a desing for my case, when I bumped on this B4 discussion, so I have started making alterations. The most important one is the use of real drawbars like Andreas is doing.
Andreas (and everypone), I think you don' t need 58 digital inputs. If you look at the B4 midi implementaion chart (if one does not have it I ll be glad to send it via e-mail), only 6 of the controls require a "push button". The other controls can all be analog (potentiometers). In addition, you don' t really need switches for the presets, one can program manually some 20 presets and store them to the midibox memory (Bankstick). The only thing that is needed is a rotary encoder for selecting fast every B4 software preset (I think there are about 128 presets). The rotary encoder will be programmed to send prgr. chage + and prgr change - messages to the B4 software, so that with 3-4 turns or so of the encoder, you will be able to jump from preset one to preset 128. A rotary encoder only needs 2 digital ins. With the addition of the 4 menu buttons this is a total of 6+2+4= 12 digital inputs needed. The rest 52 digital inputs are sufficient for connecting a bass pedal board (unfortunateluy not a manual keyboard).
Thus I think that a full B4 control device is possible with only one core!!
Still I don't get how one can use the 240+ multiplexed LEDs, since the LEDS
of the MIDIBox are not programmed to respond to analog in values, they
respond only to digital in values. So the only way to have LED bargraphs the
way Andreas intends is to use Rotary encoders connected to the digital ins of the
MB64 or MB128. But this way it will not be posiible to use real drawbars :( What I am saying is this: Even if one can achieve to program the MB simware as to set the multiplexed LED bargraphs to respond to the control messages receivedby the MB midi in, the problem will be that if real drawbars are connected to the analog inputs (like me and Andreas are going to do) then the move of the drawbars wll not alter the indications of the bargraphs in real time. (Again I really hope I am completely wrong, but this is the impression I have -I really want to have LED bargraphs).
Anyway I guess it will be also difficult to program the multiplexing, so as to fit all those leds into a one core project - I do not have any programming experience myself!
Best regards
Posted 30 April 2004 - 01:30
Yep, needs some coding though. You have to add 64 analog inputs to MIDIO128.
@Hermes: "I think you don' t need 58 digital inputs. If you look at the B4 midi implementaion chart (if one does not have it I ll be glad to send it via e-mail), only 6 of the controls require a "push button".
That's true aswell. But there is one problem: chorus vibrato selector in the keyboard view. This switch is not listed in the midi implementaion chart. But it could be recoded using an analog 6 position switch and defining the two midicontroller (vibrato mix and depth) to each position. But this switch must be hooked to 6 digital inputs on order to add this "second output" (2nd midicontroller). For example C1 woul be 64 (mix) and 32 (depth), V3 would be 127 (mix) and 96 (depth). I would like to have this switch (and I think oldmacman aswell) to be as close B3 as it's possible to be. Coding will be needed aswell.
@LEDs: I think I have bad news. I don't think that Hermes is describing a problem, but I didn't check it though.
But what I found out is that B4 doesn't send controller data when a preset key is pressed. It only sends program change. And therefore it is not possible to indicate a drawbar setting called by preset changes. :'(
And without this: I don't need LEDs. If the LEDs are only able to indicate the real drawbar setting (which I see anyway on my organ) I don't think why we should keep them.
Disappointed I' m going to bed and whimper for a little while ;)
#20 Guest_oldmacman_*
Posted 30 April 2004 - 02:17
Is it possible to alter the firmware to make it possible to use non-momentary-action switches? That way, the presets would work right, the original rocker switches for percussion, vibrato, etc. could be used, and the Leslie switch could actually be thrown. I'd like to use a house wiring on/off switch for the Leslie so I can hit it with my knee or something.
I think it's a good idea to put drawbars/switches/etc. in a separate assembly from the keyboard encoder. That way, people can use the MIDIBoxB4 with MIDI keyboards they already have.