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[9voltsoul]

my ntc - drawer liner veneer. lime green controls. soon to be paired with a homemade midi fighter inspired sidearm.

[DJBambii]

I like

[Lew]

Very nice.

[karbon]

My DJTEchtools Knobs arrived today. :-)

[s.craigie]

My midi controller made with UMC32+ DIY kit. Really fun project (and very easy)! Props to DJTT for the buttons, knobs and faders.

[Zhao]

My midi controller made with UMC32+ DIY kit. Really fun project (and very easy)! Props to DJTT for the buttons, knobs and faders.

Man that is absolutely sick!
Wanna fill us in on how its mapped?

[s.craigie]

Man that is absolutely sick!
Wanna fill us in on how its mapped?

Thanks man, its my pride and joy! haha.

I DJ in a duo and we use both this and the s4. I've played around with a few different mappings but at the moment i'm using it for effects and samples.

The 4 rocker switches on the top left turn on all 4 effects units on decks A,B,C,D.

I was using the instant gratification mapping on the 4x4 grid originally however I have now mapped my own version. Starting from the top -
3 yellows are different beat slicer values, black is delay.
Oranges are reverb, purple is tape delay, white is reverse grain.
Greens are beatmasher.
Blues are gater, purple is LFO.

The horizontal fader is effects dry/wet.
Left vertical fader is a build (iceverb, peak filter, reverb) - tutorial on youtube.
Right vertical fader is volume fader for deck D (I keep white noise stored in one of the sample slots).
4 pots(in the vertical line) are all different super knobs i have come up with.
Two pots at the top right are for master tempo and browse - and the white button in the middle is a shift (so I can reset the pot to keep scrolling - have to do this because the umc32+ doesnt support encoders).
Top right white button cycles through deck D inputs (sample, track, live input).

Then on the front panel I have another rocker switch. With this on it puts the controller into sample mode where the grid loads / triggers samples, pots are filters and so on.

I hope that all makes sense! If anyone is planning on making a controller I highly recommend putting some rocker switches in. You can just map them as modifiers and then you can completely remap the controller for each switch - think of it as a shift key being permanently held down.

[Zhao]

That is way cool, if you don't mind, what was the approximate price?
I've been looking into a similar project.

[s.craigie]

That is way cool, if you don't mind, what was the approximate price?
I've been looking into a similar project.

to be honest, not as cheap as I expected it to be! I probably spent about $250 US but i would say about $80 of it was buying tools. The case was an old network switch i found at work, so that was free. Just ripped out the guts and filled the holes with putty. Only thing is its made of thick steel (super heavy, but makes for a more sturdy feel!). I had to spend about $40 in drill bits alone because they wore out so quickly, not to mention my drill could only handle about 5 holes on a full battery and it would die!.

although it was more expensive than I budgeted, definitely worth it. If i had to choose between my s4 and my homemade controller I wouldn't even think twice about it - s4 would be gone! You will enjoy using a controller you make yourself so much more than something you buy.

[Zhao]

Wow, 250 for even more functionality than a mf pro? I will definitely be building one of these in the near future