korg mod 2
korg mod 2 Posted on: 29.03.2009 by Dierdre Odum step one combine the nano kontrol with the nano Pad as one controller. step two build case for both devices to in. (this is where I am at) Still tring to work out a few modifiers but when done I'll post the file too. Would love to hear any thoughts, my main reason for doing it is price.. very cheap for a traktor controller. RBX | |
| Man Meador 21.05.2009 |
Originally Posted by RonBurgundy
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| Jimmy Auch 19.05.2009 |
Originally Posted by RonBurgundy
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| Dierdre Odum 29.03.2009 | step one combine the nano kontrol with the nano Pad as one controller. step two build case for both devices to in. (this is where I am at) Still tring to work out a few modifiers but when done I'll post the file too. Would love to hear any thoughts, my main reason for doing it is price.. very cheap for a traktor controller. RBX |
| Man Meador 21.05.2009 |
Originally Posted by RonBurgundy
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| Jimmy Auch 19.05.2009 |
Originally Posted by RonBurgundy
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| Dierdre Odum 19.05.2009 | slow at the moment the issue I'm having with the case is the slight height variation.. need to take it to both units to get it moulded. bit of a pain.. stay tuned! RB |
| Man Meador 19.05.2009 | Hi Ron, how are you getting on with this buddy? |
| Dierdre Odum 10.05.2009 | Hola I'm lucky enough to have a mac which is pretty much the same width. Seem to be we're on the same waveform though d; ) I have a ESI gigaport sound card, and the case is very crappy plastic far to delicate for out and about, I was believeing of putting the sound card in a new harder style case incorporating a 7 port hub. As the new macs only have two usb's. my main issue at the moment is the power line for the hub... I have progressed the design a little for the controller. I'll post a pic of the hard case I'm working on for easy transport and protection makes sense really. Thanks for your thoughts hombre! RB |
| Jimmy Auch 09.05.2009 | This post concerns my thoughts on the use situation. Just the other day, I disected a usb cable and shortened it from about three feet down to a little less than one foot. Reason being, whenever I was out and about with my laptop and wanted to play with the nanopad, I'd always have a hundred miles of cable on my left side. I believe that you'd do well to make very short usb cables, with a sort of micro-usb-hub, all in the case. That would allow you to have one usb cable output. If your situation is like mine, the keyboard portion of your laptop (totally presuming that's how you roll) is wider than your korg nano gear by about an inch and a half... Good luck buddy, hope to see your masterpiece when you're done! |
| Andriy Gavrysh 30.03.2009 | well, i just took my nanokontrol apart and it seems if you'd want to rearrange the controls you'd have to desolder the parts and solder wires to them... now i'll go and get myself a soldering iron and some wires you can't rearrange the leds though, they're fixed on the board... |
| juan garcia 30.03.2009 | it's cheap enough to not feel too bad about taking it apart either. you'd believe it would be cheaper to start with a nano to make a custom controller as the usb midi boards that i have seen people use here are more expensive. |
| Dierdre Odum 31.03.2009 | check this out seems easy enough to take a part. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5SUYFlBzg |
| Andriy Gavrysh 30.03.2009 | anyone of you ever opened one of them? is it possible to rearrange the controls (knobs, buttons, ...) in a different case? with that you could design some really sick (and cheap) controller - kinda combine it into a mixer surface or something... |
| Chara Ravine 30.03.2009 | Making a new case would be alot of work. You could just glue them together and make a custom overlay. |
| Dierdre Odum 30.03.2009 | hey guys, thanks for the comments really helpful. I have been believeing about the cable issue... So far far the best I can come up with is to the the usb ports cut out of the case too, the case will be about 2cm thick hopefully cutout perspex so it will hide some of the plug but not all. Lid wise great idea, did not believe about that so will try and work some thing out maybe a clip in like a flight case so it can be removed. I want to keep the unit as flush and flat as possible. I'll work on on it! Thanks again. RBX |
| Diogo Ribeiro 30.03.2009 | Nice, i'd be interested in knowing how to do this also... |
| Steeve Lauritano 30.03.2009 | It would be really cool if you could fashion a case for it so that it would fold open and close, know what I mean? Like a flip phone but horizontally. |
| juan garcia 29.03.2009 | perhaps when building the box you could overbuild it on the left hand side and design it to hide the two cables and have them could out as one? i'm not saying to splice the cables or anything but maybe some of that cable tubing to keep it neat? that would be a fun ableton controller as well. |
| Thomas Libal 29.03.2009 | Looks super slick, love to do that do my PAD as well, but need to get a Kontrol first |
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