Rien777

Thanks! :) I plan to upload some pictures of the soldered modules and the buttons - that's really all we have at the moment - but as the deadline for my report is this Thursday I spend all my time on finishing it. After this, more info will follow concerning the code etc. We'll use one encoder to scroll the tracklist of Traktor Scratch and about 20 pots for effects etc. 16 of these pots should have a built-in momentary switch but we haven't found something like this - except the ALPS RK117. As I've only seen them at the ALPS homepage I don't know where to get them... Rien777 PS: Wish you also good luck with your box :) keep us up-to-date ;)

Hey, at the moment, I am about to write the project report as I'm building the "prototype" of our box as student research project. At this time, the modules are soldered (except the DOUT-modules), the part of the program is written which handles the buttons and a "test panel" with the Sparkfun buttons is build. The design of the front panel is also ready so far. TODO: program the AIN & LED handler routines solder all Sparkfun PCBs define the MIDI hotkeys in TS order pots (also ones with momentary switch function) get a frontpanel NOTE: If anybody has seen some pots with momentary switch function (like Alps RK117) PLEASE pm me! I've already spent a lot of time for searching for this type of pots. cu Rien

Hey Phil, thanks for your answer - exactly what I needed! Then I temporary have to accept that I can't use more than 4 DIN modules for the controller. Maybe I'll do this work...anytime, but at the moment my studies absorb nearly my whole spare time. Regards Rien

Hey again, at the moment, I'm about to solder the modules and to write the program for our TS controller. I'll also take some pictures of it when soldering is done and the modules are connected with each other - which leads me to my actual question: Browsing the wiki and the documentation on ucapps.de, I read that the ports J16 and J19 basically are similar to J8/9 where the DOUT and DIN chains have to be connected. Is it possible to connect further DIN chains to J16/J19? If true, how big will the effort be to implement these changes? We aren't in need of these ports as interfaces for SID/AOUT/SD or Ethernet modules - so why let them unused? ;) Greets Rien

Hey, I've also spent plenty of time searching pots with build-in momentary pushbutton switch and also have found nothing but the Alps RK117. I need 16-20 of these pots (or similar ones) some with detent, some without. Would be great if anyone knew where to get these pots in small amounts with tolerable price...or if a bulk order could be organized. Greets, Rien

Hey hoxo, thanks for your advice and gratz for your box - looks fine. My mate and I began planning this controller in october last year and we have really thought a lot about which functions of TS we want to control. 100 and x buttons seem to be quite a lot, I know. For example, we don't want to control the loop-length with potis but with one button for each length so that we have direct access to each loop-length - which results in 11 buttons per deck (and as we use two decks: 22 in total). There are also some "extra wishes" that are not originally implemented in TS such as sorting the browserlist by title, artist or rating. Rien

Hey community, a big problem appeared ordering the Core32 module at SmashTV's shop: After some mails with Smash it is clear that this delay concerns the Core32 module (which isn't his fault at all - just wanted to point this out). As I build the MIDIbox as a student research project, a prototype should be ready at the end of march (as there my semester ends as well). There are two possibilities: -I ask my docent to postpone the deadline of the project (what I'll do anyway) and/or -someone of you has already a Core32 module that he/she doesn't need and would sell it to me (which would be more than great). I hope somebody can help me out of my mess. Best regards, Rien

Hi stuartm, we don't want to have to use a mouse to control TS when having build the MIDIbox and as there are two decks with effects, loops, cues, the browser section and more functions that are needed, this amount of buttons is necessary. Of course we start with a smaller number but one by one we want to expand the MIDIbox until all functions are implemented - finishing it with the case. Rien

Hey Phil, thanks for your answer! Parts will be ordered the next few days. Since I also use this project as student research project, the university will order and pay them ;) There are just some problems with ordering the parts from SmashTV's shop but I hope they'll do it. We've tried to figure it out ourselves, but at the moment we're uncertain about the overvoltage protection of the MIDIbox itself as well as the protection of the device connected to it (in our case the AudioBox of Traktor Scratch Pro which costs about 600€). Rien

Hey MIDIbox-Community, my mate and I are about to build a MIDI controller for Traktor Scratch Pro and have already worked out which functions of TS should be controlled by it. Actually we thought that we could base our controller on the MIDIbox64 but it appeared that we'll need about 140 buttons, 25 potis and one encoder to fulfil our wishes. We also want to use the CORE32 module, mainly because of the onboard USB interface. Is it possible to connect this amount of buttons to the core module by cascading an appropriate number of DIN modules? We've also looked through the user projects in the MIDIbox wiki but we didn't find any controller with so many buttons. Is the presoldered chip on the CORE32 module available in SmashTV's shop also preburned so that the MIOS can be uploaded via USB? Thanks for every answer on our questions and a big compliment to TK for creating such a great platform!!! Rien777