Livid Instruments: The Builder
hey there.. just found a new (and imo pretty easy) way to build your own midi controller..
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this is amazing!!! and perfect timing!!!
yeah, pretty dope
Damn, you beat me too it. Just got to my RSS feed today and saw this. It supports OSC and looks pretty plug and play… drool.
I’m not sure of this yet but an involved project might end up being pretty expensive.
The brain is 199, and the fader/knob/button pcbs at 12 bucks a piece, do you need those pcbs or does it just make for a tidier soldering setup.
Its pretty badass tho, and the specs for inputs and the software edittor sound inspiring. I just hope I can build something interesting with it and not spend a grand
It just occured to me with the monome pads… time to build a monome 256 clone.
Mmm…
The 40h kits never interested me, the shit daedelus does with beat indexing on the 256 has had me lusting for a 256 for a long time
Oh-oh, this is going to get expensive…
This begs the question “how big is too big?”. If you look at the X4, it is a monster truck to gig with, but any smaller and you get the mcpsi (most controls per square inch) issue of the new American Audio. A VCI-100 is a great size, but put 4 deck controls on there and you will need tweezers to turn the potties. What is the size limit for a gigging controller? No use having Mission Control at home and a VCI for gigging (or do you disagree?).
But this Builder does get the creative juices flowing.
Phil.
I think the thing with Livid is that price is not an issue.
If your on a budget Livid arent for you, They arent wooly hippies like Monome.
The Ohm 64 is a thing of beauty.
Yeah no doubt, but no one trying to assert that. I’m just saying its not clear if you NEED those extra pcbs to interface a potentiometer to the main boards inputs. If you did that would definitly limit the types of projects one would consider it for if ones main goal was the end product of having a controller vs the experience of just making a controller. Like if I just needed a mixer controller and didn’t give a shit about the diy experience, it would be more financially feasible to just modify a cheap shit controller with premium parts. But if I needed something like a monome 256, it wouldn’t really make sense to hack that many launchpads lol
The guy in the video does a - errr - fantastic job of selling it.
You would not have to use the PCBs, however they would provide far better results than a rats nest of wiring.
The PCBs at 12 each are cheap enough, the price of the components is where it will get pricey.
One thing people often miss with DIY is that it is never cheap, I cant believe all the people on the Blogs comparing this to their LPD 8.