Firmware-72 Intro

The USB-microDig is a thumb-sized hardware device that encodes analog voltage signals, such as generated by sensors, to music industry compliant MIDI messages with high resolution.

The USB-microDig also includes 8 digital outputs that can be used to control actuators using the top (4th) row on the sensor input connector. Use any of our many free software tools, such as the iCube and oCube Max/MSP plugins, to interface the USB-microDig to your software application.

The firmware of the USB-microDig enables it to operate in both stand-alone mode (sensor data is processed before it is transmitted) as well as host mode (raw sensor data is transmitted). Stand-alone mode includes various sensor processing and mapping features such as gesture recognition that can be conveniently configured using our free editor.

Documentation

This documentation describes the USB-microDig firmware v7.2. The firmware version number can be obtained by sending a DUMP VERSION command to the USB-microDig. If your USB-microDig’s firmware is older than v7.2 you can most likely upgrade it to v7.2 using our software, freely available from I-CubeX.com.

This specification is divided into general, stand-alone mode and dual mode sections addressing programming commands as understood by the USB-microDig and transmitted messages as sent by the USB-microDig.