Nasrudin

/PUSH I am also looking for potentiometers with build in momentary pushbutton. Does anybody have an idea where i can get something like that in germany? Nasrudin

Looks like the forum works stable now^^ Therefore I ll present you my very own vision and development of a midi projekt. I started to interest myself on Djing half a year ago. I did spend a lot of time finding the equipment, that suits my own requirements. Unfortunately i didnt found the right thing. classical turntables are to heavy, cost quite much (dont forget the prices for vinyl and needles, which have to be replaced often). Good CD Players would fit most of my requirements, but cost pretty much (think about the Pioneer CDJ 1000). I also wanted to use a software solution in order to save myself from carrying tons of cds or vinylbags. Neither CD-Players nor Turntables have a usable native interface to DJ Software, workarounds with timecodes are innefective and expensive. in a short sentence: i need a midicontroller. Now, there are some quite interesting commercial controllers on the market which look fine at the first look. but many of them lack of usability and handling because of things like shiftkeys, micosized jogwheels, cheap plasticcasing. most promising produkt was the EKS OTUS, but 600 Bucks are pretty much for just one piece of plastic. i started to look arround and finally i found this site through a german forum. Finally, my secret dream of my own perfect solution grew into a realisable project - the "Desire MC1" MC1 stands for Mediacontroller (1 = Revision 1, simply because it looks cool ;> ). this means that the device does not have any faders for the mixerunit in it. (that will be a separat project or a conventional mixer). the design looks pretty similar to modern CDplayers, since i found myself that kind of layout to be the best. Keayfeatures ----------------- *Separate Media Controllerunit, without faders, Deck orientated layout *Enough Encoders, switches and potentiometers to control every transport / effect funktions without double use. *Big and handy Jogwheel with touchsurface *Device virualisation - controlling up to 4 decks with one controller jusing a rotary switch *Full visual and hapic feedback through LEDs and a Display in order to be able to focus on the music, not on the laptopdisplay *Stable case (aluminium), quality switches, encoders etc. *connectivity via usb, without special software drivers *customized "ready to go firmware", configuration only via the midimodul of the software. *optional Slot-In CD Drive for playing mp3s or old cd on the fly without integrating them first into the softwarelibrary *Dimsions: 330*280*60mm (without feet) Progress: i allready ordered the main parts for building a prototype. On the Picture below you see an outdated design of it (constructed with Inventor). My Calculation that far: arround 300 Euros without surface engraving (still not sure what i want to use for the case). I wont update this blog every week, since my studies comsume pretty much of my leisure time, but i promise to do it everytime i have interesting news and photos. So long, greetings from Germany Nasrudin PS: As you probably recognised, i am not a native english speaker, so please forgive me the spelling errors. Also feel free to leave a comment or corrections of bad faults in my text (last one please via pm, thanks ^^)

10 bit should be enough for a pitchbend of plus minus 8% 16 (fullrange) divided through 512 (max steps of 10 bit) = 0,015 if i remember right, the cdj 1000 mk3 has a pitch resolution of 0,02 % (within 8% range). should be ok then ;-)

I just counted the pins of the jogwheel from the picture above. if i am right, the resolution of this wheel is 256 ticks per round. this could be an important information when configuring your jogwheel.

Im loving it, playlist please! Nasrudin

hi there. i ve listened to them all, but "alles ist innen" and "chilltest" are clearly the best of em! Am I allowed to integrate both of them into my Sets? Gruß Nasrudin

maybe you should take a good look into the "whole code" first before rewriting it ;-) Anyway: MIOS_ENC_TABLE has to be placed into main.c. it defines the type of your encoders and where you connected it. define the entries as they are described under \include\asm\mios_enc_table.inc after that we have to modify the make.orig file in order not to include mios_enc_table.inc during compiling process (can somebody tell me why i cant use that file?). Tk described that two post above mine. at last you have to "modify ENC_NotifyChange in main.c search for the funktion, its is allready defined, but the body does not contain any code yet. fill inside the lower code between the curly brackets you posted. Greetings Nasrudin

hi kingnerk, i am not sure anymore about my suggestion with these high resolution jogs, since i dont know how fast Mios scans those DIN Shift Registers. i am afraid you get problems if you use one of them and then turning the wheel to fast (eg fast backcueing etc). Does somebody know the Shift register update frequency?

Why using a standart encoder? i mean its a jogwheel, it definately needs a good resolution. take a look at this: http://de.farnell.com/avago-technologies/aedb-9140-a13/encoder-3channel-500cpr-8mm/dp/1161087 I also saw an alternative on ebay, four optical encoders for about 30 Euros (resolution 1024 per Round!!) With this baby, Your DIY Jogwheel should feel just like the original from VCI. I will use two of them on my project, i still search an alternative source with better prices. Regards, Nasrudin

Whoho my first post here! I allready read this forum for about two weeks and ordered the first parts of my 64E today. Unfortunately i am stuck atm. I normaly use a different program for layoutwork (target 3001, some of our german visitors might know it^^) thus i am a bloody beginner to Eagle. Now the problem that i am facing is that i cant make the groundplate of your layouts visible. I am using Eagle 5.6.0 Demo Version with the Layoutfile for the PIC Burner (V3). After nearly 3 hours i allready discovered the following: it looks like there allready is a groundplate. It just doesnt fill the empty space, its displayed as a blue line with points around the Layout. the preconfigured Settings for this polygon looks ok to me (reffering to this tutorial: http://www.muzique.com/schem/groundplane.pdf ). "Thermals" is marked and "Orphans" not. Also, when i click on my GND polygon line, some of the electronic parts which are connected to the ground get highlighed. It looks like the groundplate exists, i just cant see it (nor print it, and thats a major problem). Of course i used the forum search, but i didnt find anything. Maybe some Eagle Crack wants to put me into the right direction? that would be really great! [EDIT] Shame on me for not reading properly enough! after a simple click on "ratsnest" it suddendly was visible. Mods may delete this topic, maybe the content is worth an entry in your FAQ regards, and sorry for bothering you ;-) Nasrudin