Reply to *Buildlog* Midi foot controller from gamepad!

Hi!

New to the community s and i hope that im welcome here!
Im planning on building a midi foot controller from a old gamepad.
The gamepad is the Saitek P480 shown below.



The goal is to achive 6 buttons and 2 knobs with pots.
it's very simble design and could be made very easy BUT, i am who i am and ofc that means i have to do it a bit extra complicated.

The purpose of this controller is actually to use it live with my guitarrig which uses a Line6 POD X3 normally, but i also recently invested in a 10" atom dualcore netbook which will act as a VST host and here's where the controller comes in.

I bought 6 footswitch buttons called "3PDT" and looks like this:



And the pots are 10K, i might nee 100K who knows?

The functions im after is to have LED's to both the buttons and the knobs.
To get the LED's light up when pressing a button isen't that hard, but i need it to light constantly when pressing the button and light of when hitting the button again when the midinote is deactivated.
For the knobs i need them to be brighter the more you turn the knob up, get my point? So that i have an idication of how much the knobs are turned.

Yesterday i went to a local metalshop which custom made me a metalbox for this. 24 x 24 cm big and 5 - 3 cm slanted.



Hope you can help me out with this since all i can find on the net is without leds.

PS. this will also be the buildlog for this project. DS.

Cheers, Jimmie