dejaneiro

Hi, everyone. First of all, this is my first post. I've being making music for some years now, but never had any peripherals helping along. It's mouse music all the way... Not bad, but I convinced my folks to lend me some money so that I could make my own controller, which, I think, has become a necessity (my live set is ready now). I use Ableton Live for composing, so my first idea was to go for a Midibox LC project, but I've being djing also (more often then "liveing"), so a "traktor controller" Midibox would make my life easy - I'm not considering burning 60GB worth of mp3 on CDs! Ok, so the dream project would be something like Xone:3d (www.xone.com). 3000 dollars, ouch! It has a built-in souncard, which I don't need (I own an Ozone controller), so what I'm looking for is: 8 faders soloing/muting for each cue selector for each assingnable knobs for eq and sends pair of jogs pair of pitch faders x-fader play/stop scene selection buttons tempo fader volume fader pan knobd for each channel In attachment, a draft will make it easier to understand. OBS 1: I guess the transport part should have better cueing capabilities, so more buttons should go below each jog; but you got the idea! OBS 2: Is it too ambitious to wish for kill buttons next to the four knobs above the jogs? Is it viable? Bare in mind, I know nothing of electronics and have just started researching the midibox thing. I am still a bit scared about the bunch of information, but since I'm professionaly motivated (and I think this would cost less than 3000 bucks), my hopes are high. Last but not least, the obligatory stupid question: Inside the midibox wiki (wherever!), what's the most newbie-oriented link or tutorial or document?? I found lots of stuff on assembling the different modules, but how exactly they work, and how many of each I'll need, I just can't tell. Well, thanx in advance, and sorry for the long boring post.