One backwards led and one burnt led that I can only assume is due to the backwards one caused days of mental anguish. It works now. All the rest were pre installed the correct way inside the arcade buttons aside from the one in step 8. I hope this can at least help some other poor soul that buys these lit arcade buttons. Test the damn led with some voltage on each button to ensure it’s installed correctly… nevermind its still resetting to step one when a button is pressed. But the lights all work when just using step forward or back.
every position is reading as 2 step length or random at the end of the dial nothing in between. Maybe bad switch maybe it’s getting added voltage somehow it’s reading either full volts or nothing. Slowly getting the bugs out. Still resetting to step one when anything is pressed but maybe they are the same issue.
Are you sure that’s a single pole 12 throw switch? It looks as though it might have three contacts in the center where I’d expect one.
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Yes…it was actually cycling through the patterns a couple days ago. I’m not sure what those nubs are but they are just flat and not used
Even when it was cycling with forwards and back it was still resetting to the first step when something was pushed now that I think about it
It was the one part I had to order from lmncs link so it’s the same one that’s in the big button project exactly
I see no obvious reason it shouldn’t be working and is sending full voltage out so I’m wondering if I damaged it internally by tweaking the long shaft against the box too many times working on it I ordered a set of them I need more anyways
Replaced it with a reg pot and it’s spitting out patterns again. Still resetting to step one though
. Really starting to bug me it’s the last thing I can’t sort out
Ok. Everything is working aside from not being able to ever push buttons. Accepting clock from keystep and cycling through all modes. If I use the switches to disable steps it’s fully usable now at least. Reverse inputs switch also works. Just those damn button resets irking me now. Thinking out loud has helped tremendously with my self deprecating form of trouble shooting
Totally worth it. this thing is so much fun! you can send it to space with an lfo. geez. Never cycled a sequencer so fast that it turned into an oscillator before. Thanks for the help I’m still going to fix the buttons some day but at least I can move on to vcos for now. If you hadnt added those switches to your design I’d be pretty screwed right now. Lifesaver. Maybe someone else will have the same issue and figure it out before I get back to it lol
what kind of clock is this thing expecting? whenever i sync it to anything it goes so fast i have to use an lfo to make it even usable…ive synced it to my 808 and my keystep witht he same results
If you have to use an LFO then it’s probably 1 pulse per step, whereas the sync out of a drum machine is 24ppq, really when syncing kit like this it’s normal to take an unused drum output and instrument to clock the sequencer.
Watch a tr707 clocking a Juno 60 arpeggiator from a drum beat, it’s the same principle
Pretty much any positive voltage pulse. Keystep gate output should be fine. Sequencer should step at the same frequency as whatever the Keystep is doing. If not there’s something wrong with your build.
The Keystep sync output is 1, 24, or 48 pulses per step. Default is 1, but it can be set to 24 or 48. In which case don’t use that, unless you have some way to divide it down by 24:1 or 48:1. But it should work, I would think, with the default 1 pulse per step setting.
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