david.bell99

I will take a look at that thanks, so are you saying I can't use the bank stick to select banks on button and this only works with the encoders.

lol ok, I will do that. the multi lcd this is not a must I was just wondering, as for the buttons it is just a conveince thing. I might cut back on the buttons a bit and half the knobs and use a bank stick. i will scetch up both and let you see. Thanks for your time

ok so th chanel thing seems to be the solution to the number issue. I am assuming that by the talk of lots of buttons there would be some sort of issue with live managing to work all this out quikly enough. I did not realise there was a limit to this and thought you could have thousands of messages before there would be a performance issue. is this incorect? (I would not be pressing lots of buttons at once if this makes a diferance) the LCD display would be good however I wouldike to know if I can have an LCD for each knob, rather than a master lcd that changes depending on the selected controler. any ideas? Thanks for your reply by the way. Thanks again, Dave

I am planning on making a several midi box’s to control abelton live I am going to start with a mixer type box, which I plan on having the following spec. 20 Channel Strips 10 Rotary knobs per strip (for volume sends and eq, etc) (I do not want and channel faders, I would rather rotary, it’s a space thing) I would like to have the level of the knobs displayed in some way next to the knob. So that when I automate the (for example “Volumeâ€) I can see the level change on the midi box. So the pots would need to be endless. I am not sure where to start as there a 200 individual controls that must send separate messages. Would this mean I would need eventually 2 midi boxes in one (I am thinking about the 128 cc numbers.? I also plan to add another box with 200 buttons for activating clips. And another box with 60 buttons for activating the mute, solo, and midi select button on the Live mixer. As I am sure you can see this is a fairly big project, and I although I talk about several boxes I will actually be putting all this in to one big box, but I believe It will need to behave as individual boxes because of the number of controls. I have looked on the forums and there is a great amount of information, but it would help if someone could point me in the right direction and let me know the best way to approach this, I am particularly unsure about the controler reciveing midi messages for pot levels etc. Thanks in advance Dave