Noob alert- Easy question? Someone please help?

[Devil_Axl]

Hi, I've got an old basketball scoreboard controller that I would LOVE to make into a MIDI controller, I would use the buttons to control LoopyLlama as a VST through Ableton Live.

The problem is it uses a 4 pin connector cable that looks kinda like this:

http://soulinspirationband.com/1-ACTIVE%20PAGES/MULIT-PINS%20ALL/ITT%20CANNON%2022-22%20FOUR%20PIN%20LARGE%20-%20ACCEPTS%208%20AWG%20-%202-PANEL%20MOUNTS%20AND%202%20CABLE%20CLAMP/ITT%20CANNON%2022-22%20FOUR%20PIN%20MULT%20PINS%201.JPG

It uses green, black, white, and red wires that go from the board to the connector inside the casing

Is there any way to convert this signal to MIDI with an adapter?? Or should I gut the thing? I really don't know what I'm doing, haha. Thanks so much in advance for all your help! I really only need about 4 of the buttons to work.

-Will

[SLP]

hi, welcome aboard.

First possibility: if you manage to find a fitting jack, you can ready the signal out, decode it with the PIC and output midi messages. this is pretty comlex, you'd want to go for the

Second possibility: gut it. open the case and connect the Buttons to the DIN.

-> http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/  (<- Important!!)