Hi all, I just discovered this site and am way impressed. I'm the owner of a Matrix-6 that I bought new in 1985 and have been dreaming of a dedicated knobby controller for it forever. I have a Mackie C4 that I use now but it's a real hassle to have to fire up the computer and everything to get it going and it doesn't have a stand alone mode so taking it on the road is more complicated (I don't use a laptop live).
Anyhow, I'm thrilled to have found this project and hope I can get to building one myself. I've still got a lot to learn about how to get the whole midibox thing up and running but, I was able to program embedded controllers at one point of my life so I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out again.
My thoughts are to make something that sits on the keyboard, perhaps held in place with magnets or something like that. I would love to have it have that old Oberheim look. Does anyone know a source for the buttons that Oberheim used on the older synths like the OBx? They're the same ones that the Access programmer has.
Don't know when I'll get started but again, really cool project!
