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well here is the inside of the shuttle pro, standard 4 pin micro buttons nothing difficult to replace and fit to the case work via extension wires to different push buttons. the usb side will be dealt with via a usb 4 port board that i have stripped down to fit inside the main casework heres the blue led 7 segment displays i got from china, arrived in less than a week! not bad at all and all those for about £9 fitted to the board to check they fit!! so all im waiting for are the rest of the kits from smash......

well im getting an itchy soldering hand now, i have got a few things but nothing that i can really get on with! my god... however my im going to pull the shuttle apart this week and see whats what in there then decide how im going to progress with it, i also have to order my replacement buttons and a few other things this week and get the face plate machined for the casework. the endpanels also have to be cnc cut as well but as of yet i havent had the chance to finish the design due to not having everything i need to finalise sizes etc. oh well not long now... i hope then i can start!

ok i have ordered my parts from smashtv (many thanks!) and i have got my lcd and stripboard. i also got a load of blue led 7 segments from ebay for a very cheap amount , about £9.00 uk with free postage and yep i got the common athodes. and i have the shuttle pro 2 in as well thats there i just need to find some nice buttons now. i also have a power supply which is a multi voltage dc supply thats switchable from 3 to 12 v and has a 2500mva load capacity and i also bought a couple of chassis mount power sockets for it to plug into, so i will have spares to keep next is to finish designing a case for it all! then testing it, i hope it works!!!!

i have posken to smash and im getting everything else i need from him. i have a little wait to recieve them but i have gone for his stuff.

i have emailed both mike and smash tv and had no responces to my enquiries as of yet, is there anyone else i can buy the complete kits from please?

well i have started to design the case work on solidworks so i can see it all in perfect 3d and the software will assemble the case work and check for interferences and tell me where so i can adjust things. as the led segment displays are bright i will put a plastic strip in front of them that has a slight filter to it to dim the lights down. i have ordered the parts i have seen online and they should be here shortly, i also saw a nice turorial for connecting the lcd to a piece of grey ribbon cable with a small ide type connector at the other end so i have ordered the relevent items also. im getting quite excited at the prospect of building this unit as it will be a great little mtc control surface with the shuttle unit cannibleised and installed in the same case. this is the unit i have bought and will stripdown and put in the same case. heres the info blurb. http://www.contourdesign.com/shuttlepro/ im also going to add in there to a griffin powermate knob as well that i can task to something else. im hoping this will be a good first build for me, today has been a good day and things are really making sense to me now, im hoping it stays this way for a while now. i dont have many days when things are in good clarity so im making the most out of it while i can, i have written a lot of things down in a sort of "stupid mans language" so i can still understand it when im not having a good day. once again many thanks guys, its been so long since something got me excited and motivated! after this a motorised fader unit is definately the next thing to build and one of the fm synths i have seen here. this place is amazing, just simply amazing, what some of oyu guys have done is simply amazing!! i also emailed the guys about the stribe stuff but got no where, thats something to look at at a much later date. many many thanks for the patience and advice it makes it all worthwhile to me guys.

thats what my head was telling me to do stryd, and in my head it made common sense, but then it was telling me that the same output pin couldnt control the same input pin on several leds because if the pin was live or active then all the leds sgments on the a pin would light up so to re-iterate pin a on the doux chips goto the a pins on all the green leds. because even though thats what you say my head is saying "no thats not right" so im making myself confused, and making something basic harder than i need to, its a little frustrating but im getting it ;) here we go, i did this in photoshop, i modified the drawing from thorsten a little basically the green colours represent the wiring paths to the led segments. what resistors do you reccomend instead of the 220's? also i emailed mikes electronics but have not heard anything emailed back.

i have just found some different colour 7 segment lcd units in singles. at this location . http://www.lc-led.com/Catalog/department/36/category/49 this is the one i want http://www.lc-led.com/View/itemNumber/211 will these be ok to use for my mtc board? if they are im going to get a sample pack. these with the blue lcd display will really make the unit stand out i think ;)

ok i have emailed mike and im hoping to hear from him soon, thank you guys. im going to look over the documantation tonight and see how i go along with things, i now know how to connect the lcd screen to the core board and with what connectors i can use. and im going to look over the mtc display wiring on the doux board, however it would have been good to see the rear of that picture of thorstens one, because even though the led numbers have the numbered pins and so do the doux connectors it doesnt relate in my head as to what goes where, so what im going to do is download the pdf file and draw onto it how i think it goes and show it here, if i get it right please tell me if its wrong tell me quickly!! then i wont make mistake when i do first soldering. i have also started designing a case for this unit along with the contour shuttle pro unit i have scrapped down to put inside also, so i make a nice midimon with suquencer control unit.

thank you for the replys. i will email mike tonight, and ask him for the parts i need then i can get building ! i will order the screen and lcds tomorrow. on thorstens box in the midimon section there are two buttons, i take it i will need those also so i will get some buttons as well. im getting there its a slow process but im looking forward to it. thanks again.

stryd, i did message slp and told him it wasnt his fault and its all ok, i was very consice about this and its good that im being treated the same as everyone else would be, it makes a change not to have people being cautious and softly around me. on the internet is the only place im treated the same as everyone else. to be honest im glad he said what he did because i had to read and read again the info there, its making its way intop my head so i learn things again, its good , it is a little hard to concentrate and get things to sink in but i am trying and i do want to build this kit myself, so i can say that i did it. after this i am going to try and to a control surface unit as im starting to understand that everything is just basically a modular kit set, so as i understand, you get the core unit, then the addon kits and extra items such as faders and potentiometers and led lights etc. then you program the core chip etc for the things you want it to do. now that i find this mikes website i can get the kit with all parts and most important a pcb, because i cant etch them here. and build these projects. im really looking forward to building this first one and then doing more kits as i go along. ok so i can get the core and the doux kits from mike, is his website still active for ordering and buying things? i only have paypal here is there anyway he takes paypal do you know? on his english site there is no email adress foe to ask him on email if i can pay with paypal. is mike a member here if he is i could message him is that ok to do? where do i get the correct pic chip from can i get this from mike's website? as i do not see a list of chips there to buy. once again i want to thank thorsten and stryd for such and excellent site here, the info is fantastic and the members are greaat most of all the projects that have been made are really fantastic also. i havent seen such things made by people not in companies before!!!! thanks again.

hey thats ok, i understand that may be the case, i just want to build things again in my spare time, as i have lots of spare time now i do not work, and i hate daytime tv! i used to love electronics but i have had to learn all again with my left hand. i have been reading this hour now so it is starting to sink into my head a little. ok so as i understand it i need the following an MBHP core, will the v3 work with the midimon project? i also need to an mbhp doutx4 and then use the mbhp_doutx4_mtc.pdf file for the connection layout so i find this website here with all the pcb and parts to make this kit http://www.mikes-elektronikseite.de/shop_englisch/index.htm so i can buy the core and doutx4 there, it says on the site if that is ok? what pic will i need for the core please? and will the nice blue lcd screen i found on rs website work ok? if this is all ok i can order things monday and get to work so as i recieve all items

yes i have read them. forgive me but theres a reason i ask so many questions, i suffered with a mini stroke a while ago so my reading skills are not what they used to be and my understanding the circuits isnt as good as itused to be, thats why i am asking questions so i can learn again. please understand i just want to learn again some elctronics and have fun doing them. yes i read the sites you mention but i find it hard to understand somethimes whats in front of me so i always ask a lot of questions. there is an old saying " i would rather be a fool for 5 mins and ask a question, than never ask a question and be a fool for the rest of my days" so i ask, its the best way for me to learn now again, to ask and learn. ok i have found these items to start with. blue lcd display 20x4 transflective STN blue/white (will this work thorsten? the data sheet is there to look over in pdf format) RS Stock No. 532-6818 http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=532-6818 so i thought of using that as the display and then these for the mtc display http://cpc.farnell.com/kingbright/sa52-11ewa/led-display-0-52-he-red-ca/dp/LP00450 for the mtc board i was going to get this. and trim down as necessary. http://cpc.farnell.com/multicomp/254-899/single-sided-stripboard/dp/PC01210

well after speaking with a few members i have decided to build one of thorstens midimons with the mtc display also. i will have a custom case made but i also want to insert into the case the insides from a contour shuttle pro controller then i will have a really nice mtc display and control surface unit. now this will be my very first build of a project here, im very good with a soldering iron, i have 3 different irons from standard all the way to fine pitch and i also have a surface mount iron set with vacum pump. its been a long time since i did eny form of electronics work so im getting back to it very slowly and this will be a good starting point. now in the midimon thread i didnt see if there is a pcb available for the main controller or not, if not do you have one thorsten that i can give to someone to have made? a circuit shcematic for making a pcb? also is there a chip on the board that would need an external programmer to insert some custom operating code into? if so is it possible to get someone to do this for me? i know that the mtc displays board was a prototye board and thats ok i can get them but the main control baord i dont know what was used for that as theres no information. im hoping to get as much info and pictures etc as i can so i get things right first time, its a project im looking forward to. also on this picture you see the front of the board but there isnt a picture of the rear, so i cannot see how the connections were made. is therea picture or can you take a picture of the rear for me thorsten please? if you guys can give me as much help as possible i can get parts ordered and get on with a build. also i am wondering if i can change the green lcd display for a blue one? if there is a blue equivalent (do you know if there is one thorsten?) something similar to this display here http://shop.tuxgraphics.org/electronic/detail_lcd_blue.html many thanks guys, im looking forward to building this.

im hoping someone can help me. i have a soundcraft spirit studio i bought quite cheap its the 24channel version. now on the output section there are a series of leds that show the grouped db levels. however what would be good is individual channel db level leds similar to a meter bridge, so i have a question, is it possible to build a meter bridge each channel having 16 leds the same as the grp output leds. and then build a board that allows them to linked to each channel inside the mixer thereby allowing the levels to be shown on the meterbridge. so to take a feed from the output stage of the channels before being switched into the gropus, to the relative channel input for the diy meterbridge? i was thinking could i use this module from cpc.farnell http://cpc.farnell.com/velleman-kit/80-1520/k4304-mono-led-vu-meter/dp/HK00620 and use the output from the pre group switch fed into this by way of a link? one for each of the 24 channels thereby making a led meterbridge.?? or even use this kit from cebek http://img.icnea.net/Forum/E6001/ftp/VM-21_English_Esp.pdf i also would like to make a stand alone mtc display, just a strip of number display components to make an mtc display, and connect it via midi, because i could also fit this into the meter bridge as well. as built by the guy who made the traktorizer shown here http://mte.bplaced.net/Hardware-Projects/LNRV-Control/mtc4.jpg.'>http://mte.bplaced.net/Hardware-Projects/LNRV-Control/mtc4.jpg. i have emailed the guy who runs this website http://mte.bplaced.net/ and i am hoping for a reply soon. any suggestions most welcome. UPDATE: can i build a meterbridge with a midi interface that will display the meterbridge levels by recieving midi data from the daw software im using (digital performer 6) and thenthe transmitted data bounces the leds per channel/track as shown on the screen? i think that would be a much easier way of doing it than attatching to channels in the mixer itself. so is it possible ?? a midi fed meterbridge with multiple leds say 16 vertical per track/channel with room to add more if i use more channels in the software? thanks simon