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I think gray one from Farnell should be having a skirt made out of same material so it could be same for illumination. But, black ones looks better. When I illuminated Waldorf knobs I was so disappointed. Albs should really use some more blurry plastics and they would look nice. I especially dislike a view from the top.

These knobs looks exactly as soft touch gray knobs from Farnell, but I didn`t know the skirt can be illuminated. Now I`m very interested in it. Some forum members also used these knobs for their projects. Can somebody confirm they can be illuminated?

http://www.auroramixer.com aurora is a usb powered multichannel mixer in a typical dj form factor. the device features two linear channel faders, a single a/b crossfader and eight backlit buttons. twenty four backlit knobs allow you to control effects. aurora, unlike most midi controllers, enhances performances with controllable ambient lighting. aurora easily integrates with your favorite midi compatible software.

The one with monkey drummer. I have one named Rubber Johnny video I found somewhere on the net... a short one. Didn`t know there is more. It does now. ;D

I used to have his DVD too but i gave it to somebody and never seen again :'( I`ve been dreaming about it (from the moment I`ve seen Monkey drummer for a first time) but I think I`ll stick to my HDD drummer... way much cheaper. :P

I`ve seen this one, and must admit it looks way much better than it sounds. I bet creator was inspired by Chris Cunningham and Aphex Monkey Drummer. Oh, how I love this video.

So what are the options/plans? Tell us more about compressor too, please.

So, I have to change it to look like the code belowe if I`m using 24 detent encoder and want 1 detent to be 1 incremen and. I should of course set option 2 to be default. #define DEFAULT_ENC_SPEED_FAST_DIV 2 ; (2: divider = 2^(7-2) = 24)

It is essential for my application to have detended encoders. So I would like to disable encoder quadroubling, so they are handled 1:1. I tried to find it in a code but without much luck. :-\ Anybody know how to do it?

I sent final email about payment last week with reed receipt but didn`t received many confirmations by far, so I guess my emails still ending in spam filters. Please notify me if you didn`t received email. Thanks those who already sent the payment to Mike.

Nice and clean (with first knobs). Congratulations.

Hey madox, that was really extensive introduction. Thank you for the answers. I used wick for my first and only SMD soldering (OPLs) and I did just what you said... I puled it and peal the the trace. I bridge the missing piece with thin wire without much problem but after I did it I PCB didn`t look so perfect. I have one more question for you... I talked to a guy at the shop that was buying flux... He said it should be mixed with alcohol before applying to the PCB. Does it make any sense, as you didn`t mentioned it. @dstamand, I watched the video and almost fell asleep. I`m not even a SMD beginner but as I see that deep frying I thought it is a work of some amateur that hardy can be an example.

How would situation be using this technique on self etched PCB and unmasked traces under the IC? I`m afraid of creating a solder bridge under IC.

30 min? I expected you to be faster than that. ;D As I recently successfully soldered my first SMD ICs and realized it is not hard at all I`m ready for next step. This looks like good project to improve the skills. Thanks for posting the pic.

That looks great. :) Very compact. Does it work as expected?

Yes, I used floppy spinner motor before for this kind of job but HDD motor is much better as it is smaller. Some are berret than others. This particular one have big wider area that was perfect for mounting spacers for quadrature ring on one side, and top disk on another. Bad thing is that none of motors from HDDs are easy to fix to the rotor. All have very shallow non metric threads, so some improvisation is necessary.

Man, it is still far from it. Alot of work still needs to be done. ;)

And, here are some winding testing results. I mounted the encoder onto sub-panel. Even 40 steps seams pretty sufficient, I wonder how cool would be 80 steps. ::) I accidentally damaged first, 80 steps wheel. Even I wan`t be ever doing any scratching I wanted to try it. Probably not very scratch friendly as the resolution is not so high but to me it felt great and pretty responsive. Very fun. I must sad I`m extremely satisfied how rigid this HDD motor based platform is. As I didn`t want disk endlessly spins, I made small spring and glued a piece of cloth that is usually used for that kind of thing (don`t know the English word) As you may see, I started with wide spring but as it was too strong I needed to grind it down untill I was satisfied with it`s resistance. Mechanism is simply mounted on the spacers and rotate with disc while cloth is aply some traction on the HDD motor body. Quadrature disc isn`t mounted so mechanism can be visible.

I just tested other SRs with Voti`s encoder again and all are working fine. As I have no idea what could be a problem, I`ll use 5th SR for optical encoder and rest of SRs for mechanical and problem solved. Well, not in the right sense but at least I can make it functioning.

Lad, I used MIDIO128 to align the opto elements. So, transistors are connected to button inputs on video. Coresponding LEDs show the sequence. So, 2 LEDs that you see isn`t part of LED ring. After I aligned the opto elements I uploaded MB64E and connected transistors to second DINx4 module which is by default assigned to encoders, so it is not problem in configuration.

Blinking LEDs on acrylic would make it top elegant. ;)

Cimo, that is such elegant solution, mate. ;D ;D ;D Or, better... he could print it on label and stick it to his controller like old synths. He could add some diagrams too. :)

Have you tried to loopback the MIDI in to MIDI out and check the sysex feedback in MIDI-ox input monitor? You should see same content in both monitors.

Bigstone, as you said you are not a programmer and more a hardware man like myself, I think you should really give up idea of showing patchnames on LCD. As far as I know there i no ready made solution for that. LC should be doing good job controling parameters and shoving its names, controling PC and OS should also be pretty simple. There are programs that convert MIDI messages to key strokes and even mouse movements. That is all pretty easy to do, but preset names feedback from host isn`t. I wanted to do similar thing for a long time myself but didn`t find a solution that I really like. First you need to decide which VST you like to use, as not all have same or full MIDI support. Sneakthief is using something similar. He have small barebone PC that he is using without monitor. It automatically boots Native Instruments Kontakt that i think he use for playing prepared synth/drum sequences. If you adjust the way you work live you can do something similar with good success even without showing the preset names on LCD, even without parameter feedmack and relay on what you hear from soundcard output. I would personally be very satisfied with Robert Henke`s Monodeck II concept but it is not project like MB (even it is based on it) and building details nor MAX patches are not public available, AFAIK. Maybe you could contact Sneakthief and ask him some more about his Kontakt PC and way he exactly did it.

Looks pretty robust, I reckon it can handle alot of dragging and live abuse.