Preview of our homebrewed controllers

[ZiiK]

After a few weeks of work we are now almost finished with our first controller builds.

They are based on the Teensy++2.0
Built together with johansked here on the forum.

One is Midifighterish and one is a two channel mixer with some buttons for basic stuff. Mappings are not done yet. But there will be multiple layers in firmware so squeezing in loads of stuff should be doable.

Hope you like it!

//Joel

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[ZiiK]

BTW, since this is our first build we've tried to keep it simple.

If there is enough interest to have another go there will be metal faceplates and wooden cases. And of course new interesting layouts!

Cheers

[ZiiK]

Quick initial mapping made for mixxx and everything seems to work well apart from encoders. Not sure I set them up right in mixxx though. They seem to work in traktor.

Cheers

[ekwipt]

Candy controllers looks like a sweets shop!

[MrAybar]

Nice, looking forward to see the final product!!!!

[Emery]

that mixer style controller is very interesting, cant wait to see how you map it

[zestoi]

Quick initial mapping made for mixxx and everything seems to work well apart from encoders. Not sure I set them up right in mixxx though. They seem to work in traktor.

Cheers

nice controllers if you're not using javascript scripting then you probably need something like this within your <control> mapping tags to tell mixxx it's an encoder spread equally each side of the middle value, which i presume your encoders are:

    <options>
        <Spread64 />
    </options>

more info here: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/midi_...ng_file_format

[DJDoubleYou]

when you started this project, did you had any programming experience

[tyfurious]

Not sure why it's so huge, but it's nice.

[johansked]

when you started this project, did you had any programming experience

Well you can say that we have two different roles. Joel is the hardware "expert" and I am the software "expert". My coding background is mostly in java and matlab. I have also done som html, perl (I am study bioinformatics), sql and just a little C. So I have some experience but not that much I think, expecially not in C (but it is not that different from java).

The tough part about programming is understanding the logics since it is kinda different then for example math. There is actually a study going on here in Uppsala about why people have such a hard time learing to program. It is gonna be interesting to see the results from this study