Hi everybody!
I'm new to this forum, and honestly, I'm completely blown off about what you guys are doing here!
Awesome!
I searched the web about kinda "turning the Houston into a Mackie", which brought me here, and what I saw was like
"my dream finally came true"... sort of!
What I would like to know, is, if it would be possible to keep the actual hardware (wich is of real good quality) of the Houston
- enclosure, faders, LCD, knobs, jog-wheel, whatever - and just replace its "brain" (if it has some... ;o), to magically turn it into a Mackie control...?
That would be so great, since I don't work with Cubase anymore (they rejected to support it anymore, anyway..) and the Houston doesn't have any Mackie-emulation mode. So my beloved controller is pretty much useless now...
There might be a few issues, though:
the LCD I think, has less numbers (is that the right word..?) compared to the Mackie, it has no timecode-display and no push-encoders.
So what I really would like to replace, are the original encoders with push-encoders, and I would love to have a timecode-strip.
If necessary, I'd replace the LCD as well, of course.
Is this possible (that'd be just soooo great!), or would I need a complete set of new/ other hardware?
Thanks ahead for any answer!