Having LED arcade buttons or LEDs above the arcade buttons
I was browsing through a few threads on doing the arcade button modifications and then had this idea of not wasting the LED connections so why not connect them to LED buttons or have small holes drilled in the cover to accommodate LEDs.
Saw a few types on the Internet and whilst the majority of them will be too big or require a rather deep housing, some of them just MIGHT make an already funky piece of kit look even flashier.
No one?
I like the idea. I think you would have to use illuminated buttons because drilling a hole in the buttons wouldn’t let enough light through. It might be possible to use some extra bright LED’s to illuminate some of the lighter color buttons.
Nope, just took a button apart. I don’t think there’s enough room in there.
see this one has arcade butons and leds
And the faster you drum those buttons, the more of a free lightshow you’ll be having. 
That does look cool and actually makes me consider doing the arcade mod. I’m just saying I don’t think you can put an LED inside a button you get from DJTT because of the way they’re built. Which brings up another point. DJTT chose the buttons they sell because of how well built they are. I wonder if any of the LED buttons you linked to above are equally as well built?
This is def possible, however you are right in that the djtt buttons are too opaque to use. If you look on lizard lick you will find some by another manufacturer which are clear with a diffuser in the cap and are about the same size as the sawn buttons we sell. There is a thread floating round in which another forum member used these for his vci mod with very good effect.
While we have always wanted to have back lit buttons for the midi fighter we didn’t want to sacrifice the performance for wow factor hence our decision to stick with sanwa.
To be really frank, I don’t think most of us will torture the buttons the way Ean does. I definitely won’t since my purpose in getting the controller is to control decks 3 and 4 plus combo mixer / player for certain gigs where I need more than 2 decks. Other than that, if there’re CDJs available, especially the 1000s, I’ll use them.
I was thinking the same thing. May study up on this a little more.
hey guys, check this out! 
That first photo of the vci-100 button circuit board…does anyone see the six wires (colored green) for the l.e.d.s. ( plus the blue ground )…aren’t there actually eight l.e.d.s? ( two per button ).Shouldn’t there be eight wires (colored green) for each l.e.d. Plus their ground?
Why only six wires?
wiringplan
Hi,
this is the wiringplan for the leds of the vci100. Ground is missing in this pic because it just connects the circuitboard with the case..
Midi is right. . .unless you can find the OBSF-24 “skeletons”, the LED wont’ be efficient enough. . .
You may want to check out shoryuken.com forums. . .It’s an arcade stick modding board, and there are some good ideas about LED’s and mods for the buttons (Although the easier attainable one are semitsu) tt’s not tailored to the midifighter, and it uses game boards.
It could (however) be a possibility for midi using HID-to-Midi translators.
Led diagram
Thank-you very much for the wiring diagram. Perfect.
As for the buttons, I found one with a clear top. I’m in the process of mounting the led’s in the button and will post some pics shortly.
I did the led in the button mod. And looks excellent. You havev to drill into the button’ plastic housing at it’s base… Plus cut a slot in the button itself and it all fits.
I got it to work.
BC
Glad to hear you got it to work. Were you able to utilize two different colored led’s or just one color? I’m trying to figure out how to do this in order to utilize two led’s as originally intended but with the arcade mod (this way I can take full advantage of the new firmware). My main concern is primarily sorting out the wiring. Will be looking forward to seeing your pics, also, could you help us out with the site were you got your buttons from? Thanks.
As I was looking for more info on this mod I came across the how to by bcondemi. This answers my previous posting. So here are the links to help everyone else out.
Part 1
Part 2
I hope this helps. Also, thanks to everyone who contributed to this posting.
I’ve done a fair bit of modding on arcadesticks and such and the Seimitsu PS-14-D-N-K would be perfect for something like this.
Also PS-14-K-N for smaller buttons.
These are great buttons that easily would stand the test of time.
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Was wondering if you had a pic of the opposite end of this harness, this way we can get a visual as to how it lays out in order to assist those that have previously cut the led wires so we can figure out the numbering of each wire. Thanks.