lukas412

Hi Thorsten, Thanks for the quick response. So these 128 encoders and the 64 butons are always being updated, even the encoders that are not "active"? If I am understanding correctly, this would be perfect for me. I would have way more available parameters than I could ever need in a relatively small MidiBox. I ussually only ever send cc values. I hope very much that you could find the time to do this, I would love to assist, but I just dont have the skills. Thanks again! Luke

Ok sorry if this is an old question. I am building a controller for Ableton. It will use 1 core to the max pretty much, 32 rotaries, 64 buttons, and some leds. The question is, say i have some stuff going in live, and some of the leds are activated and indicating the state of a button in live. If I go to my next snapshot and make some changes, push buttons ect. when I come back to the original snapshot, will my button state come back? Like will the lights on the midibox represent the positions in live? What if I manually change a button in live with the mouse, will the midibox reflect that change? Thanks, Luke

Great, Thank you very much. Luke

Did you ever resolve this problem? I just ordered some encoders from smash and want to remove the detents and was wondering if there is anything I should watch out for. Has anyone else got these working properly with the detents removed? Thanks, Luke

Excellent. Thank you. Luke

Siple question. Is it possible to have buttons and rotaries on the same DINX4 board or do they have to be one or the other? Thanks, Luke

So does anyone have any good techniques for cleaning scratchy faders?

Oh man do I feel like an idiot!! I have been using live since the very first version, and I have never noticed this!!! That is exactly what i am trying to do. Thanks alot guys. Problem solved!! Lucas

Very cool, I thought about it some more, and I guess all my app would have to be able to do is have one pot send a cc value to live, and also move to the next snapshot in the MB at the same time. Is this possible with the current mb64e app? Thanks, Luke

Hello Everyone, I have been trying to figure out a way to create relative triggers in Ableton Live. Here is what I have come up with, but I wanted to ask what it would take before I started building it. If this works it will be part of a larger 3 core midi box, but I will only explain the part I am confused about. For those not familiar with Live's scene navigations, it will allow you to assign a controler to scroll up and down through the scenes, the controller can be a pot, endless rotary or buttons. What I am hoping to do is create 16 trigger buttons for triggering the tracks, 1 knob that will scroll up and down in live. So will it be possible for me to make the knob send cc's to live, but also somehow reassign what cc's the triggers are sending? I figured it might be possible to have the midibox scroll through snapshots as it is also scrolling through live, thus keeping the assigned cc's on the midi box in sync with the selected scene in live. Seems to me like it would get complicated though because if i read it correctly the midibox64e has 128 digi ins, so that would allow for about 6 different sets of cc assignments (I will need to use some other buttons). So it would have to scroll through the 6, then jump to the next bankstick and scroll through the next 6 and so on. WIll this work? Has anyone else come up witha a good way to have lots of trigger assignments in live with only 16 trigger buttons? Thanks for such a great project! Luke

perfect. Thanks Luke

Question about Pin headers. Probably a stupid one. So are they simply a pin held by plastic? Can they be cut down? Could you put two short ones together to make a long one? Or are they connected in some other way? Sorry for the simple question, just dont want to spend more than I have to. Thanks, Luke

Yes i am a fan of the electribe sequencer, and please dont get me wrong, I think Thorsten has done a fantastic job, and I thank all who have contributed. I was just curious. Ill be building a mb seq anyway. Thanks for the info!! Luke

So Im thinking about building the MBSequencer. My question is, is there any way to set it up with a key that you tap in the sequence hits with like a Roland TR box? If not has anyone talked about this for a future release? Personally I think this feature would make the MBSeq the hottest sequencer around especially for live use. I like putting the steps in maually, but in a live situation, sometimes its just too slow. Thanks, Luke

Hello eveyone, I plan to build a rather large midibox soon, with 3 cores. This will be my first attempt, so I will have lots of questions. Right now I am just designing and planing. The box I am creating will be based on the Ableton Live interface. I want to have a bank of 8 buttons on each of the channels on the box. I am wondering if it will be possible to have a shift button the will change the bank of 8 buttons from buttons 1 - 8 to buttons 9 - 16, doubling the functionality of the buttons. I dont have any experience with assembly so programing it my self seems rather daunting. I do have some other programing experience so Im not completly opposed to writing some code, but Im gonna need some help. This is a great forum and project! Thank you all for all of your hard work! Thanks, Luke www.technoiraudio.com