Help me through my first project

[Pouryas]

Hello all. Im fairly new to this forum and the whole idea of making my own Midi controller. But since the first time i thought about making my own one, i went through different phases and concepts and i was struggling with myself what would be the best concept. What iv got in my mind at the moment is to build a 64 key monome with few knobs and few faders. I would like to add a display to the concept as well.

Now the question is if it is possible to have various template defined in the device that match the buttons with the different configurations? And is it possible to map the button to a key on a keyboard (lets say mapping 7 button to 7 key in D# minor scale)? How is all this midi mapping being done?

Also I would like to know what are the limitation of current monome projects and how they can be improved

I will Ask all my questions in this topic. I need to read more though, but these questions are what im struggling at the moment so any help is appreciated

cheers

Edited January 27, 2010 by Pouryas

[Pouryas]

Uhhhh, anyone?

Edited February 2, 2010 by Pouryas

[nILS]

Welcome aboard Pouryas :flowers:

All of what you are asking can be done. Partially it already exists (buttons, faders, ...), partially you'll have to write your own code for it (midi mapping). That's about as in-depth as I'll get without knowing more details :)

[Pouryas]

tnx nILS for the info. What language is being used for writing the code? and how hard u recon it wuld be to map buttons to specific keyboardS?

could someonr give me a brief overview of the hardware required to make 64 button monome with a display? (How many DIN and DOUT modules and other required hardware) ( note that im planning to use STM32)

is there any monome alike project here?

Cheers

[philetaylor]

Hi.

There are many people on here that are more than happy to help people that are new to MIDIbox (and some not so new!) but what most people expect is for people to read as much as they can from http://ucapps.de http://wiki.midibox.org/ and from this forum, you will find the answers to everything you ever wanted to know about MIDIbox (and a lot you probably don't want to know) in these 3 areas but things do take a bit of searching for sometimes.

We are all busy building our own MIDIboxes so it is generally considered polite to at least do a bit of research before asking questions.

For example, http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_din.html and http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_dout.html tell us that the DINx4/DOUTx4 modules each have 4 shift registers which each support 8 digital inputs/outputs so a 64 button monome would need 2 x DINx4 and 2 x DOUTx4 modules! If you want OSC support then the MBHP_ETH module would be useful as well.

At the top of the forum screen, there is a search button, if you search for "monome" you will get 224 results, so yes it has been discussed on here quite a bit :) The first page of results show at least 2 people that are/were building monome clones!

Edit: Oh an by the way the MIOS is written in PIC assembler and MIOS32 (for the STM32 core) is written in C

Cheers

Phil

Edited February 4, 2010 by philetaylor