When i am finished with the 3… yes 3 controllers i am building right now, i have decided to give back to the forum that has helped and inspired me so much.
So sometime around the end of the summer, maybe sooner, i will be offering my services to the good people here. Just tell me the design/features you want and i’ll use my ample free time to construct a high quality midi controller, custom built for you.
The cost will be: cost of parts, shipping, and a very small charge for my time and effort.
The rewards: a top notch custom controller for you, and the chance for me to work on new ideas beyond my own, and build up my portfolio.
Start coming up with ideas/layouts, and you could have your custom controller by this fall, maybe sooner.
Yeah, curious to see the quality of you’re work. I’m very interested in doing this as I have some idea’s floating around and would love to get them made out.
Any chance you could answer my question i posted a while back re a custome midi controller?
What is it i need to start building a controller. I take it its soem sort of central midi unit that all my buttons and faders connect to. What is it called , where can i get one from ?
Any information greatly apprecited.
I have an old mixer that i am considering modding to become a midi controller.
-milo
My digital camera is busted, don’t know what the problem is, i probably could fix it, but its old so i’m going to just get a new one. As soon as i get it i will post pics of my current projects.
-MisterMoleyMole
It all depends on what you need, some good starting points are the hale-32, the leo bodnar HID (not midi), the arduino (capable of quite a bit), and the midi box, just a few suggestions.
-cmcpress
I do use the midibox for some projects, i haven’t tried a stm32 core yet but i really want to soon. The 32 is interchangeable with the older core, so i plan on swapping it out with my 1st midi box project that i haven’t used in years.
-the modular controller
Looks like quite a build, Those lcd buttons can get really expensive, if they just want little lcd screens it would be cheaper, but the lcd buttons would be more fun, a 12" touch lcd can be costly too. This would take a lot of time for design and coding. I haven’t got any experience with OSC, but i’ve heard its pretty easy.
On a controller like this i would probably want to take away the laptop all together. Put the computer end of this inside the 12" lcd case.
Making it modular would be a nice challenge. Trying to conceal all of the cables in the case would be a bitch.
Maybe add a keyboard module, the have you could have a custom Openlabs Neko style thing going on.
It could be done, but in all honesty, i don’t know if it would be a good idea for me to get into a module based system. But on the other hand…
you just got the gears going… to the drawing board…
for a module based system of my own design. (nothing as extravagant as seen above) but my system wont cost thousands of dollars like i foresee that build costing.
If you really want that it can be done. Just a few questions for you…
-Do you want the small lcd’s to be color or will gray/green scale do?
-Would you like the computer to be integrated?
-Would you want to keep it modular for the possibility of adding future controls?
-Rotary encoders or standard pots?
-Any led rings or bars?
As much fun as it would be, the little LCDs aren’t LCD-buttons, cause a single screenkey goes for 30-50 € and isn’t even velocity sensitive. But a velocity sensitive pad with build in OLED screen would be the kick-ass, unfortunately no one makes one yet. Hence these are regular velocity-sensitive pads/buttons and regular LCDs, probably large (whole width) ones which are covered to divide them into 8 smaller displays. I’d like so many LCDs cause I never want to look at the laptop (The 12" is for a lemur like controller and/or for displaying videos)
[QUOTE] Originally Posted by Nephew View Post
Little something I whipped up, but instead of 8 channels I would want 10[/QUOTE]
I “hardwired” it to a fixed amount of channels because if you wanna have a modular amount of channels, each element would be it’s own module, making it way to complicated. I did choose 8 channels as 10 would be too much for the desired with of a module (which is based on the width of a 12" LCD/tablet)
[QUOTE]-Do you want the small lcd’s to be color or will gray/green scale do?
-Would you like the computer to be integrated?
-Rotary encoders or standard pots?
-Any led rings or bars? [/QUOTE]
gray/green-scale would do, but 2 color (red/green) would def. be useful
Not sure if I would put the computer inside. Maybe I’d create a module case which can hold a 12" convertible/tablet.
I’d say one module with Rotary encoders and another with standard pots
If using a single line LCD strip, then with LED rings. If using 2-line LCDs, one could use these to display the curr value. But rings are def. the nicer solution
If you want it, it can be done. Just to let you know though, it’s going to take a long time to build all of those modules and getting them all to work together.
he he, I know. And super expensive. It was more intended as a starting point for the community. As you seem to have the experience and kindly offered your services, I was thinking maybe we all could come up with some kind of semi-modular design which would work for most people. If the design and the software would then be open-source, it could be used by many people here to build their dream controller… or you sell the modules??? dunno, if we all can come up with a good design, maybe a donation pool could be arranged and the prototype development financed from that… then see what’s next… Just thinking out loud.
Have you seen xndr’s modules at http://www.machinecollective.org ? (Also check his flickr page). His prototyping modules come close to what I envisioned, but lack the LCD feedback. And I prefer long strip-modules than square-modules. Think it’s more flexible. Anyway, some good designs on his site, also on the enclosures.
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