flexbex

Yes I know but as soon as they are above 24 pulses they will cost more then 12 Euro and this is too much for me cause I want to use at least 16 Encoders.

Hey @Hawkeye you could read my mind I just came back to this forum with the same Idea with the pushbutton function. And the Led ring was my plan allready before I came here. ;) Another Idea I tried yesterday was to read out not every pulse from the Encoder but to read out every change of A and B which gives a 4 times higher resolution. I was affraid to get a lot of Noise/bouncing errors especially cause I didn't used capacitors and it's a detent type of encoder(which I supose to bounce more). But suprisingly it worked pretty fine and just had 2 or 3 errors per 360 degree rotation. I now orderd an EC12E from Alps and some Encoders with a button from Bourns to try this out. And get a feeling of how they react. @Hawkey sorry I am not firm with the different Midibox projects cause i develope all on my own on a MSP430 so I can just participate in the the Hardware section One question i don't have a modern Midi controller at home but how is it on sth like the Akai Apc40 or sth equal when I turn an encoder it looks like on videos I watched that it is just a 270 degree(+/- it was hard to see everything) angle between fully opened and zero. Because with my method I mentioned above I still need 480 degree to change a value from 0 to 127 when I have a 24 pulse per Rotation Encoder (128/4=32 pulses 360/24=15degree ->32*15=480) cheers Flex

Thx for the fast reply but when i get it right with the fast mode it works like this: the faster I turn the Encoder the more steps are skipped like a mouse on the computer would do. But this wouldn't be a solution for me cause I want a predictable position after I turned the shaft. This is why I was thinking of a 360 degree(or nearly 360) potentiometer. Because with this one I would have the advantage of both the soft take over ability from an encoder and the fast response of a potentiometer. hope I could express my concerns right. thx Flex

Hi there i hope the question wasn't answered too often I am looking for an endless Potentiometer. in the moment i am using a rotary encoder with 24 steps which is quite nice. But the problem is that instead of a "normal potentiometer" I have too turn nearly 6 times to change the midi value from 0 - 127. Of course I could use an acceleration as mentioned in the Faq's but this is not exactly what i want cause it gives u no exact controll when u turn it. So I got a hint that they use in the APC40 sth. like an endless potentiometer. I googled a bit but didn't find the right part. Is there somebody who could help me. cheers Flex