Custom Controllers

[Wallsy]

Does anybody else see midifidler going on to be a bad ass big time midi control designer or what?? haha

Keep going mate... "you can do it...."

[ToS]

LEGAL NOTE: Noone is allowed to sell the Midibox based controllers as finished units. You can check it on www.midibox.org

ONLY selling that is allowed is midibox in kits (pcb, ICs, components...)
Thorstein Klose intended this project to be a DIY teach-yourself electronics.

[sorry 4 bad grammar, hope you untherstand]

[midifidler]

TECHNICAL NOTE:
The Midi-fighter while being box like in form, and inherently dedicated to the generation of MIDI data, is in no way related to, or derived from the great MIDIBOX platform & community.

[Fatlimey]

How awesome would it be if you brought a controller with a few basic controls, ie cross fader, channel levels, eq, things virtually every body wants to use, then you could choose from a range of other modules which can cover every particular interface people want, from indented pitch faders to endless encoders, touch sliders and arcade buttons, the list goes on.

Have you heard of the Mawzer Modular MIDI controller?

http://www.mawzer.com/Pictures/thumbnails.php?album=2
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007...ontroller.html
http://www.musicgadgets.net/2007/06/...ar-controller/

Great design that never saw the light of day. It's pretty much what you describe. My guess is that each module had a microcontroller that communicated with the base unit using something like the I2C serial protocol, making each module plug'n'play but also quite expensive!

[Kaon]

Does anybody else see midifidler going on to be a bad ass big time midi control designer or what?? haha

Keep going mate... "you can do it...."

heck yes! big ups to midifidler! im getting one of these lil bad boys

[midifidler]

@fatlimey

Cheers for the link, yup pretty much was my vision of the ultimate in midi control, must be surfing teh tubes in my dreams now lol . Shame this never came out.
Though one day one of the big companies will latch on to the idea and give it the required amount of design attention. The micro required to go in each module would only need to cost 70 - 80 c or less so there is no reason that something like this could not be produced at a price comparable to any other mid range mixer/controller out there, when taking into account economy of scale.
Something like this would sell big time when done right.

[tekki]

@FatLimey
Mawzer is great, but too expensive too my liking...
What I wanted to build will set me back for €1500,-
In this case I'll just wait for the Stanton SCS.1m.

[BentoSan]

Yeah modular would be the future if it were up to me haha.

This even makes alot of sense for producers who want create hardware units for their favorite software VST.

Another thing about modular units is that in the end when all the quality is up to par there will be no more complaining about layout designs This topped off with a touchscreen interface would totally rock my world.

[Kaon]

Yeah modular would be the future if it were up to me haha.

This even makes alot of sense for producers who want create hardware units for their favorite software VST.

Another thing about modular units is that in the end when all the quality is up to par there will be no more complaining about layout designs This topped off with a touchscreen interface would totally rock my world.

heck yes! im totally rocking a touch pad with my midi fighter

[midifidler]

Hi everyone,

Here are some more pics of the final prototype midi-fighter. I just nutted out the last of the software bugs and I'm about half way through the building of the final 6 units.