september28

Hi there, What a great community, I discovered ucapps last week and havent been able to stop reading about things on the site since! However, having looked through the site extensively, I am still left a bit bewildered and daunted by the challenge facing me... I have done some basic breadboard/stripboard projects before but never anything like this. I am using Traktor Pro and really want to build a unit to control that. I have seen both the traktorizer and the other user blog traktor controller which both look good, but a little too complex for a beginner like me. Also i would like to make my controller on top of a new Core32 module. So my questions are the following. - I am in the UK... Is there any way of getting hold of the Core32 kit in Europe or do i have to get it from smash in the States? (http://www.avishowtech.com/mbhp/buy.html) - What are better for pot-esque control in Traktor - encoders or pots?! - How do cross faders work and are they different from normal faders in terms of electronics? I assume that they have to know "which side they are on? as in if the crossfader is pushed to the right it must send data that the right is on full and the left is on none??? Does anyone else want to make a basic traktor controller (I was thinking along the lines of what the Aurora project offers but without the insane project costs) A note to the community... I will document this fully and in detail to give a good starting point for beginners to ucapps and hopefully my project could become like a standard project that first-timers can learn with. I realise there are other simple projects up here but not really for what i want to do (midi control of an app) Also I'm a bit worried about the level of programming required once i have madethe board? Could anyone help me out with this or point me in the right direction at least? is computer (mac os x) to board connection and communication hard?? Thanks in advance for helping me out guys! Cheers, Dan