Music Box Composer

Running mbc (stand-alone)under Linux (Opensuse 13.2) I ran into some problems, trying out , what mbc could do for me. Deleted the mbc-folders in my home-directory, but mbc is still very unresponsive, seems to have stored information on my probably faulty handling somewhere else. What have I got to d...

Seems I had missed the unity3d folder within the hidden /home/.config. Deleted it too, then had to re-register MBC, now apparently it works fine again

Best regards, jeb!

I am sorry, I have to assist MRutley, the width of the printed PDF-Strip is about 67 mm where it should be 70 mm.
(MBC-stand-alone running under Linux)
Do You have any suggestions, how to print out the .jpg ? Has to be split? In which way?

Best regards, jeb!

Living in Germany, I´m used to print on A4 paper, which has a size of 210 * 297 mm; now I opened the pdf with The GIMP, and look, the strips are exactly of the right size, but the pdf is in Letter-format, which is 6 mm wider than A4 (and which I am not used to even think of ;-) So I guess, my printe...

First of all: my guess about the printer-driver was wrong, changing paper-sizes there didn´t help at all :-( The (not really satisfying) solution for me was to open the pdf within The GIMP (for non-linuxers: The Gnu Image Manipulation Programme, something like photoshop under windows) extract the jp...

Hi Miranda,

you should have got mail

Please let us know, whether it was helpful or not!

Best regards, jeb!

First of all let me say, it´s a great fun playing around with the MBC: Thank you so much, Grant! In a real musicbox movement there´s a fixed distance between the teeth of each starwheel. Unless this distance isn´t kept between two holes punched in the strip at the same note, the starwheel can´t be m...

The overlapping section of the strips printed out using MBC is quite short, so the angle you can cut them is not very less than 90 degrees. At such an angle it seems to me to be very hard to align two strips really exactly to join them then. Moreover, you´re running into difficulties, trying to make...

@ AlexD:
I´m not quite sure, whether I understood your way to make (physically) playable strips...
Print out the MBC-PDF, then transfer the punch-marks to blank strips, which you can buy, etc. ?
Would you please be so kind to give us some more detailed information

Hopefully, jeb!

@AlexD: Thank you so much for your thorough explanation! A lightbox I really didn´t have in mind - wouldn´t have expected that to work with such thick paper... But I´m still learning :) May I ask you two more questions: what kind of tape do you use to join the parts of a strip, and, how do you store...