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| Lakeisha Allaway 13.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by VanGogo
The upper four are planned to be used as external 4 banks mode. (Havent really got that to work with the leds yet..) The faders are FX dry/wet on the 4 different FX groups. The most upper row of knobs are filters. The other three rows are fx parameters. It also houses a Audio4DJ soundcard. But this changes from day to day as my mapping gets more and more complex. Il put a more detailed thread up about it when its finished. =) |
| Charline Dye 13.09.2011 | Wow that is some nice work!!!! What do you plan to map the xtra controls to do? |
| Lakeisha Allaway 13.09.2011 | Heres a first look at my DIY midifighter expansion. It uses a Midifighter as a brain. btw. Its not finished! |
| Madlyn Trocino 27.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by mr.drumer.boy
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| Jasper Frostad 26.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by headsdeep
I wish I knew about these before. I used an Arduino Uno with Spikenzie Labs 64 Button shield. When I finish up the instructable, I'll have outlined exactly how it all works. |
| Shonda Soulier 26.08.2011 | Very nicely done! |
| Marva Cupid 26.08.2011 | yeah it is pretty cool, i have two questions, does it feel strange that the jog wheels are lower than the mixer and are those the jogs of the icon idj ? |
| Percy Keehan 26.08.2011 | beast controller. nuff said. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 26.08.2011 | Dude, use the default font. It's so much easier to read. |
| Madlyn Trocino 26.08.2011 | Hey just wanted to post pics of my new setup. I recently bought a 4MidiLoop believeing that it would be a solution to the dreaded "Layer" theory that drives me insane while playing Live. Perhaps I stand alone on believeing that "layers" are a drag, but I do believe "layers" interfere with the natrual work flow....especially while playing live. Anyways I do love the 4MidiLoop, but its not the be all end all 4 Deck solution it boasts. First of all the Button are small and the Play & Cue Buttons are way to close to the Volume fader IMO. Also the Buttons are not the most responcive Buttons ive dealt with. If you dont strike them dead center they dont engage, and even if you do stike them dead center, but not hard enough, they dont engage or they will engage for a millisecond then stop. I can deal with this Button behaviar on most functions (Cue Points, Key Lock ect etc) but I CAN NOT deal with this problem on "Play" buttons. Addmittedly there is a learning curve with these Buttons, but still I dont believe getting use to these Buttons will totally enliminate the possibility that they might not engage. Its not fun to DJ live while believeing that there is a possibility that the "Play" Button might not engage properly when stricking it. Also The 4MidiLoop doesnt have a good Jog Wheel solution. It does have deticated Endless Encoders that try to act like a Jog Wheel, but it is an Epic Fail if you are used to using the standard Jog Wheels that most Midi Controllers have, mainly because you cant spin the encoders in a constant way, you always have to stop then turn again as your fingers cant continually turn the encoders. For this reason....the Encoder Jogs pretty much suck. So after much thought and research I decided to tackle the Jog Wheel problem first. I wanted 4 Jog Wheels to acompany the 4 Deck situation that the 4MidiLoop offers. So I ended up buying 2 ICON IDJ midi controllers and stripping them of everything but the Jog Wheels. Then went to EVERYTHING PLASTIC and got 2 Plastic top plates custom made to cover all the holes from the Buttons, Dials and Faders that I stripped out. Once the face plates were on, all that remained was dual Jog Wheels on both controllers. The ICON IDJ Touch Sensitive Jog Wheels are THE strong point of the contoller. I would compare their usability to the VCI-100 Jogs. The dials faders and buttons on the ICON IDJ are total crap and its not possible to get LED feedback from the buttons (even while using the included software). However you can use the included software to change Midi Channels and velocity etc etc, so thats pretty useful. Also if you make changes to the controllers with the software, they are feed to the controller and the controller then stays in the state you program it in without having to run the software again. Also there are several Buttons that have an "always on" state (which I covered with the top plate), as well as the Jog Wheels which have an always on State (Red & Blue) depending if the "touch senser" is engaged or not. When I custom made the top plates, I made sure to make seperate holes under the Jog Wheels where the "always on" LEDs where so the Jogs are always lit from underneath. This is great in low light siuations. Next I tackled the Button problem by adding Arcade buttons to the bottom of the 4MidiLoop. For the brain of the Arcade buttons, I used a MidiFighter board that easily fits inside the 4MidiLoop. BTW there is PLENTY of room inside the 4MidiLoop for modding. Of course I couldnt fit an "assembled" MidiFighter inside the 4MidiLoop, so I just used the brain portion of the board and soldered wire from the board to each Arcade button and made sure to insulate the board so it is seperated from the 4MidiLoop board. To drill the holes in the 4midiloop I used a step drill for metal. The trick was to make the drill speed slow and to take my time. But all I used was an adverage drill, no machine shop of press of anything. And for the template, I used the top of the MidiFighter for a guide to mark the hole size and spacing. The final width of this this entire setup (including the Jog Wheels) isnt even as wide as an NI S4...... Here is pics of the finished project !!!! |
| Gordon Grissinger 25.08.2011 | are you multiplexin on this with a mega? sorry about the late link on cheamore yah right http://www.arcadespareparts.com/arca...3mm/13138.html fucking 37 cents each not as good as the swana but i moded them to travel les |
| Jasper Frostad 24.08.2011 | No, I'm in Saint Louis, MO. |
| Gordon Grissinger 24.08.2011 | are you in the bay area? |
| Jasper Frostad 23.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by MrPopinjay
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| Gordon Grissinger 20.08.2011 | sickness are you in sf? |
| Gordon Grissinger 20.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by ToS
but i made a neutric patch bay pannel with a tiny tube preamp for each input 4 xlr mic inputs 12 line inputs do you know how i can use the control voltage inputs and the digital inputs? cant the cv in put become a foot switch? or somthing? |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 19.08.2011 | God I want one of those hexagon keyboard things... Shame the axis costs so damn much. |
| Charline Dye 19.08.2011 | Nice work! I just don't believe you have enough buttons though. |
| DJ MENSAH 19.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by tyfurious
You can do 4-click flares on a chromatic kreboard? Aside from my nasty personality, that seems like lots of work, and it is probably fun bashing off those colourful buttons. Tiz nice. Wastefull but nice. |
| Gilma Marchini 19.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by mist-man
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| Jasper Frostad 19.08.2011 | Here's a picture of me testing out my Chromatic Scale Midi Controller. Still in a troubleshooting phase of the project, but it still makes some pretty fantastic sounds with the help a Thor patch in Reason. I thought it would be appropriate to show here, considering my MidiFighter was used as inspiration for the project. 24mm Sanwa buttons are truly the best. I'm working on an Instructable and some videos of me playing this. Should be finished in about two weeks. |
| DJ MENSAH 19.08.2011 | What soudcard are you using for this beast? |
| Marva Cupid 19.08.2011 | im your mann mr.drumer.boy only joking nut man that looks sikk as |
| Gordon Grissinger 18.08.2011 | this is a old 1950s travel record case. the removable speaker box i installed the midi fighter with 3 knobs 1 ir i slider i toggle and 3 other arcade buttons in the lid i installed a 17" moniter where the record player used to be i installed a intel i7 mother board 2.5 tb hard drive 16 in out sound card 4x4 midi soundcard can anyone in sf help me hook up slide pots to my system please we also need a DRUMMER that can dj and press buttons or has perfect pitch hollar at your boy |
| Era Roka 18.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by headsdeep
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| Gordon Grissinger 17.08.2011 | tec with tube preamp inside midi fighter real glitchie on the analog can not make them work homade windows i7 computer 16 inputs 4xlr inputs 2midi ins 2 midi outs 2 tube preamps i am to stupid to get any slide pots hooked up anyone in the bay help me out? please |
| Shonda Soulier 17.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by HarryHope
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| Kiyoko Wellisch 17.08.2011 | That's very cool |
| Buster Kiper 16.08.2011 | I tied it to the cue buttons because I always use a dual channel sound card and external mixer. Volume Faders control Filters and everything else controls FX parameters |
| Tatum Ansaldo 16.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by cabdoctor
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| Buster Kiper 16.08.2011 | |
| Aracely Wosick 16.08.2011 | Just some cosmetic mods, have started to black out my vci300. Was finding the silver really annoying. So far have just used black spray paint and duct tape. |
| Ardell Semrad 11.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by HarryHope
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| Darcey Kinnett 11.08.2011 | Used an old buzz controller as the brain. I'm using it for traktor. basically as instant gratification (running controller mate, which allows me to send out extra midi notes when i press button in combination) that illuminated button at the button, basically switches it from effects mode, to cue point mode haha with cue point 1 to 8 mapped as well as play, pause, sync and pitch bends. all I really want to add now is maybe like a 4 way switch or a couple of switches to allocate to deck selection haha. I'll post up a vid of it in action, it's rather fun :P |
| Marva Cupid 11.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by rutierut
and what software, looks like ableton. |
| Era Roka 11.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by HarryHope
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| Darcey Kinnett 11.08.2011 | tada |
| Gordon Grissinger 10.08.2011 | if you are talking about the bass/guitar 2 arcade buttons(solid red and solid blue) the blue cuts the bass signal and red cuts the guitar signal then you know the other 6 arcade buttons are for kick,snare,hats,open hats,crash and a short loop(sometimes) there is a brake out box for the floor i used ethernet jacks and cable it carries 6 buttons and a ground and power for leds 6 heavy duty stomp box type buttons 6 led these buttons are for start loop recording connecting the loop guitar fxs bass fx and the singers,keys,decks,rappers and horn players fx(delay |
| Marva Cupid 10.08.2011 | Warning, awesomeness might be to awesome for people to handle, proceed with caution. |
| Tatum Ansaldo 09.08.2011 |
Originally Posted by mr.drumer.boy
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