jonpaul

This may rock the boat a bit but tough cos I don't understand exactly WHY someone cannot sell a midibox type controller? Please can someone point me to the EXACT rules regarding Midibox and legally why. Don't worry I am not planning massive worldwide domination/commercialisation ;) I just find it interesting cos it obviously is a delicate issue. Surely you are selling the functionality not whats inside it? My mate works for an engineering company and he says that he has just built an underwater camera control unit for use on a submarine. Now, the company he works for never made the PCBs, computer, etc that was in it. Therefore he was selling the functionality that was possible resulting from the combination of various "off the shelf" type technologies. What's the difference? Forgive me for my naivity.

This may be true. I phoned the boss up and got friendly and tried to appeal to his good nature. The buttons with symbols are very expensive the the numbers I wanted £2.50 a pop!!!! However, their basic ones are still way better than most others I have seen and they are 80p a pop. The best thing is to email them and ask. I will be placing an order next month to build my Maven basher!!!

Found somewhere that do great buttons. Apparantley, they supply companies like Mackie etc. If you wanna do the same look at www.rjselectronics.com They can supply metallic buttons with symbols like the play 'triangle', stop 'square', mute 'X' etc that let the LED light through. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!! 8)

This thread was started a long time ago. Anyone care to comment on the location of such items.

Firstly can I say how interesting I have found Midibox. I want to try and build my own controller for Ableton Live 5. After hearing a lot of squabble elsewhere concerning the Maven controller that Sasha uses (which is based on Midibox apparently), and folk wanting to buy it; I decided to try and build my own. However, I have found so much info here I do not know where to start :( sorry. Is there any folk there who can give me some pointers? A friendly chap I have been speaking to in Holland said that he came to you guys for some advice and that you were all jolly good chaps. He managed to build a controller for Ableton Live and I am keen too also. I have a friend who works in CAD and engineering and we are quite excited at the prospect of producing a nice bit of kit. So to recap, I am not to sure on how this all works really i.e. where to buy parts, what to buy, etc. Even down to the very principle of what is the lowest denominator of part I would have to buy. Any pointers would be greatly received. Maybe one day I will have my controller pictured here. Thanks John ???