custom keyboard/controller to control arturia's jupiter 8v vsti?

[gooner]

Hi.

This might be completely crazy idea, but in an ideal world I would love to have a custom midi keyboard/controller that looks like the Roland Jupiter 8 synth (just in terms of the layout), and which controls the soft synth by Arturia - the Jupiter 8V.

http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/jupiter-8v/intro.html

http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jup8.php

I presume a project like this would be extremely expensive but is it feasible? Does anyone know anyone that would consider giving me a quote for this?

It's mostly sliders.. most of the buttons aren't assingable in the vst - less than half.

Thanks

[lucem]

Skimming over, should be doable with the MBHP, but it'd need  custom application of course.

Are you fond on programming?

[stryd_one]

Welcome aboard :)

is it feasible?

Yes.

Does anyone know anyone that would consider giving me a quote for this?

I'm sure that whoever supplies the parts you choose will give you pricing ;)

[gooner]

thanks for your responses :)

i got a quote for the parts but i think it'll be too expensive.. as i also need to put the whole thing together and i have no experience in anything like this.. (though I guess it coule be a great challenge!)

if anyone has some tips on building a box myself and somehow putting all the components together then give me a shout!

thanks

[philetaylor]

For help on putting everything together, http://www.ucapps.de and http://wiki.midibox.org are great resources.

When it comes to boxes/enclosures, unless you have access to CNC equipment, this can be the most expensive part of the build :(

As I have found out, cutting slots in aluminium for mounting sliders by hand is very very difficult. For one of my projects, what I have done is found an existing (faulty) commercial unit with the necessary number of sliders etc and 'bastardised' it :)

Cheers

Phil

[socrates]

You can also build a woodencase  ;) but with cnc/laser live is made easyer :P

[Tanstaafl]

I have made 2 arturia control surfaces with mbhp.

MMV and miniMoog.

both work great.

good luck

[stryd_one]

No schems/plans/pics/software to share ? :(

[SLP]

No schems/plans/pics/software to share ? :(

http://www.ggbnet.com/picstuff.html

[stryd_one]

Another reason why offsite doco sucks - sometimes we don't even know it exists ;)

</broken record>

Edit: No plans/software/schems, just pics :(

Nice synthpr0n though, tanstaafl !!

[SLP]

sometimes we don't even know it exists ;)

actually the URL was in his avatar and in his profile, so it wasn't that hard to figure that out ;D

[nILS]

So you dig through everyone's profiles to see if there's offsite doco? ;)

[stryd_one]

dig through everyone's profiles

3000+ members...

[img width=600]http://hw001.gate01.com/geomover/ethmvr/ld/hp4000.jpg

LOL

[SLP]

So you dig through everyone's profiles to see if there's offsite doco? ;)

When I talked about "profile" I actually meant that little that links to his website...

...but yeah, I'm a

;D

[stryd_one]

LMAO! I don't usually go for lolcat crap, but that is prime.

Unlike the video, I hope we won't senselessly scare you away at the end though ;)

[nILS]

Okay, stryd, you dig em up, and I'll bring 'em over to the WIKI with this baby:

[stryd_one]

<cue theme music>

When it's more than a truckload,

When it's a metric f**kload...

MIDIbox Haulpak.

MBHP... oh wait, that name's taken :( Guess we'll have to stick to synths and sequencers

:D