42 knobs?
Richie Hawtin had these custom made for his new Plastikman live show this year.
How would you, personally, chose to use these knobs? What could you come up with that would put these to good use? 
Volume knobs, 4 eqs and gains for 4 channels and 4 banks of effects so thats
6x4 24 and 4x4 16 getting to 40 total, I guess the last two could be for some other shenanigans that I haven’t figured up yet, maybe some sort of super knobs for the effects, or possibly a filter for a couple of decks, who knows Hawtin is Mad
Looks like the one is front is being used as a drum controller either velocity or levels ?
Kick / Kick /Snare / Rim / High Hat / Clap
More likely 808 kick and 909 kick.
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using it to control a drum machine in ableton as he’s doing would be cool…
Id have them to do effects in traktor^^
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I’ll get my coat.
So damn cool. I do love Richie Hawtin’s view on technology.
Could do with some encoders though.
what do you mean? it consists of only rotary encoders?
or do you mean endless encoders?
Encoder always means endless. It’d be nice to have a few for scrolling through scenes, setting track start points, pitch bending in traktor and other similar tasks that are not really suited to a knob.
keep in mind that this is only a small portion of the gear he uses
True but the question was what I would do with them 
So what else does he use? I’m curious.
He could have just bought a Code… lol
That’s his 1.0 setup, he is building the 1.5 as you can see, he announced a revamped 2.0 show for next year.
that’s his current tour’s 1.0 setup… keep in mind plastikman has been releasing since early/mid 90’s
he was using this for a while on previous live tours
I know, but it’s the latest setup we know from him, and there are a bunch of things that don’t show in the pic and I can’t remember right now.
PS: Gearpr0n 
the show was awesome! he used these outside of his LED cage! destroying a track
Must say his show last year at Creamfields was an eargasm.