midi mixer brainstorming

**salomon102** · 05-08-2011, 05:59 PM

i built myself a midi fighter clone out of a usb game pad(16 buttons and 4 potentiometers), and want to built a second device to use as a mixer something simple like the m-audio x-session pro. id like to know what possible pcboard from what device i could use that would contain minimum 5 potentiometers and 4 buttons

thanks!

**DJ Asand** · 05-08-2011, 06:17 PM

2 xbox controllers could give you like 8 potentiometers and 30 buttons. plus, you can wire one controller to another I've heard.. that way you have 2 devices running through only 1 usb port.

theres a couple of threads here about this already

**salomon102** · 05-08-2011, 07:13 PM

The thing is i havent found the right software to convert hid to midi without having too much lag. Curently im converting the buttons to keyboard strokes. Becausqe there is less lag and im converting the 4 knobs in midi with rejoice ( the only software that converts pov)

**salomon102** · 05-08-2011, 08:57 PM

ive heard that arduinos had a coding that could transform inputs into midi, what arduino would be good for what i want to do?

**kilobytekaushik** · 05-10-2011, 02:18 AM

any arduino will do, deumilanov or uno or if you want 54 I/Os then arduino mega2560 or 1280.

**fullenglishpint** · 05-10-2011, 08:21 AM

You could probably do it with a 1st gen Korg Nanokontrol. You can pick them up for next to nothing then rewire the connections to better faders. It sends midi out of the box and has loads of faders and knobs (and buttons for that matter).