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sur eim not going to buy thousands of each product to get industrial pricings xD but still, the hardware should be under 50 euros in total or at least und 100 euros if you check prices and are patient. :) you can spend infinte money on casings, but if you go diy on it with wood or plastic it should be cheap aswell ! have fun guys, just dont build warbots pls ! well im on a budget, but ill go diy, since im trying to learn something here, and those controllers you can buy just dont do what i need them to.... unless id buy a NI s4.... or something similar kind regards to yall

Hi TK, i kind of think the usb socket will need to be bought aswell, or ill need to get the device to communicate via usb with an extra usb to midi adapter ..... i do not need those midi sockets, as ill be sending my data over the usb line aswell as powering my device via the same usb connection. also you were comparing USD to EURO, lol .... 1 USD is less than 1 EURO... I live in germany so ill buy from german shops aswell. one of the shops sells the teensy 3 for 30 euros including the shipping fee. thats pretty much the same price, BUT the teensy offers better hardware, alot of help in theory and even pre written codes that will work fine. I guess the two ways would both work fine, its just that its more convenient for me to use a teensy. ill get to do alot of assembling anyway .... Ofcourse i will be putting some effort in the code to make the device talk midi, but as far as ive been testing usb midi controllers its always worked fine for me. The only problem i had with analog signals was caused by using cheap faders sofar (put them in a hercules mk2 and they sucked even worse than the original faders). I dont think it generally causes "problems" to use midi signals with usb conecctions, as that is the way all the big companys are going (native Instruments, ... probably even all) but it will need a non standard code addition if youre using the available beta software (maybe theres been an update? ) or even more coding if ur writing the entire code.... aaaaanyhow ill go take another look a the hardware you mentioned ;) who knows i might be doing both :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: kind regards to y´all

thx for your answer digineural. i most definately will go a different way in terms of hardware, since tis is more of a low budget learning project resulting in a custom USB-"midi" controller. i dont really think anyone needs to spend over 50 usd for a basic poti and button device, now that ive been reading about finished projects everywhere. but that will kind of depend on if ur satisfied with primitive buttons, (dont buy cheap faders and rotarys if ur building precision tools). the part in charge of teaching the signal to be midi is me i guess, at least in terms of writing a c code. at the moment it feels to me as the teensy boards could be a great starting point. I think ill give it a go with a teensy 2 or 3 next month. Ill just need to teach it to send midi signals over the usb, or if i cant do that use software to convert signals ( makes me want to cry xD) gives me either 25i/o + 12 analog, 46 i/o + 8 analog or 34i/o + 12 analog Ive got the resistors wires and a breadboard already and most likely i will be buying some analog multiplexers.aswell. just need to make up my mind wich teensy board to choose .... think ill go with the teensy 2.0 ++

Hi there, im struggling trying to find out what board(s) i will need to make my controller the way i want it. I will need to it to output the signal of 5 faders, 22 potentiometers and 40 buttons. Also it would be nice to have the buttons light up by leds if activated (switch on/off each time u push it). I definately need the interface to be usb, so i can hook it up to any computer, since i want to dj with this device. This is quite a journey, im just starting here and already clearly need help. Please be so kind and inform me about the working possibilitys to connect all those buttons etc to my pc via usb. thx eden