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added... This will make things so much easier!! Thanks a million wilba!!

SID's arrived today... on my sons first birthday! Hrrmmm... its like symbolic or something. Just hope these SID's will grow into something amazing over the next year as well. Thanks a million Wilba!!!

Damn! I'm sorry I missed these!! (along with all the other bulk orders... boo hoo :'( :'( ) That was pretty much exactly the colors and quantities I wanted. Wilba help!! I'M GONNA DIE!! But seriously Goblinz, I'm interested if you're doing another one. I'd be keen for 30 White and 10 Grey

Thank you guys so much for the input and help. I've been away from the forum for awhile and forgot I even asked this question. This is some good stuff to know. Thank you guys! I'll do some more research and I'm sure I'll be back with more questions. Cheers!

Hello everyone I'm new here. My first post... (sorry for the long one) I've been thinking about building my own midi box for a long time now but just haven't had the balls to take the leap as of yet. My biggest reason for wanting to build my own (which I'm sure is obviously the case for most of you) is most the midi boxes available today are cool and cheap but just don't provide ALL the right features for my particular use (not that its an obscure one). Not to mention most of them lack the more interactive forms of control, such as multiple joysticks, keypads, touch pads, optical sensors, Etc.. Many of them do but I'm not really the kind of person who wants to page through a menu to select the track and then the parameter I want to tweak before I start tweaking. I want to reach for a control that is always there and does the same thing, usually track specific or independent. I'm a long time electronic music producer and audio engineer. I'm also good with my hands and an accomplished craftsman, instrument builder and so on. So putting together a professional looking, properly laid out box would be the easy part for me. But when it comes to source codes and din's, pic's, ain's, dout's, jdm's, shx8's and all that, I have NO idea whats what. Basically what I'm thinking of trying to do is Frankenstein a box together using buttons and knobs from old electronics, gaming controllers and telephones, in conjunction with new control surface elements. Would really want the unit to have touch sensitive motorfaders, pots for the EQ controls and encoders for most of everything else. This would be a dedicated Ableton Live controller for live performance. I know there are many out there and I've read some great things here already which have given me a lot of great ideas. My focus with the Frankenstein parts would not be to save money but to add some unique controls to the unit. So my question is this: How possible is it to use things like telephone or calculator keypads & buttons, pots & encoders from old electronics, joysticks from gaming controllers, track balls from mice and so on for some of the control elements in the Midibox systems? I'm assuming there is a difference between a pot used on a analog modeling synth (for example) and a pot on a midi controller? Or are they similar or the same? Or say a fader used on a audio console vs. a midi controller? So when I'm sourcing (scrounging) parts, what specs am I after? Also the links I'm finding for parts in the US are somewhat lacking in the area of non-detent encoders, joysticks, touch pads and such. Any ideas, suggestions, info, links... whatever would be much appreciated.