Questions about basic pots and stuff
Questions about basic pots and stuff Posted on: 01.08.2010 by Wava Egizi Hello!First thread! I love thus community , and djtt of course. I have some basic questions. I plan to make a controller out of a gamepad. This will be my first project with slide pots and regular pots. So I wonder wichita pot from Muse that I should use for basic crossfader and volume sliders? And for the regular knob pots... Can I use anyone that is 10k? EDIT: Ehh... I mean Mouser.com ... not "Muse" .... and "which"... not "wichita" Oskar | |
| Wava Egizi 04.08.2010 |
Originally Posted by Quiggers
I believe I will use this kind of gamepad: http://www.webhallen.com/hardvara/62...analog_gamepad What kind of pots/slide pots should I use? |
| Wava Egizi 01.08.2010 | Hello! First thread! I love thus community , and djtt of course. I have some basic questions. I plan to make a controller out of a gamepad. This will be my first project with slide pots and regular pots. So I wonder wichita pot from Muse that I should use for basic crossfader and volume sliders? And for the regular knob pots... Can I use anyone that is 10k? EDIT: Ehh... I mean Mouser.com ... not "Muse" .... and "which"... not "wichita" Oskar |
| Wava Egizi 10.08.2010 | I have done some testing with arcade buttons soldered to my gamepad... when I do some cue point juggling the performance from my new button lacks(?)... Sometimes it plays the cue in Traktor great... but when I rapidly push the button the sound from Traktor gets really out of sync... eeh... It's hard to explain this in english! =) The same function works great with my X1... I dont believe that my new arcade but is less responsive... but it doesn't get the same work done...... Got any tips? |
| Graham Frazier 04.08.2010 | Nope, a knob with "unlimited rotation" aka Rotary Encoder, is an entirely different kind of signal than basic analog pots. Rotary encoders actually send a digital signal, and these vary in type depending on which kind of encoder. Wait, i believe i miss understood the question. Yes you can use a knob with unlimited rotation for browsing tracks and such in traktor, but you will not be able to hook one up to that board. |
| Wava Egizi 04.08.2010 | Oh, okey! Thanks for the advice! I will buy the gamepad first so I can see what I need! Is it possible to use a knob with "unlimited rotation"? For browsing and such? |
| Graham Frazier 04.08.2010 | The HID to Midi software solutions out there work great, atleast the few that i've tried. As for the pots, this really depends on what is being used in the gamepad already. The majority of thumb joysticks use 10k, but that doesn't mean that they all do. |
| Wava Egizi 04.08.2010 |
Originally Posted by Quiggers
I believe I will use this kind of gamepad: http://www.webhallen.com/hardvara/62...analog_gamepad What kind of pots/slide pots should I use? |
| Shantae Mettle 01.08.2010 | what are you basing it on, ie whats converting the analogue resistance value into midi info? generally they will specify what value of pot to use, for controllers linear pots rather than log ones give the best control. |
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