Sasha Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Just when you think you found perfect buttons and knobs for your bidibox project, something new apears.This is some of the things I like most till now. MEC> http://www.mec.dk---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FARNELL> http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp               SIFAM> http://www.sifam.com/I`ve seen these soft touch knobs on some professionall big mixers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeb Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 As I start to think about how I want to design my MB the more atracted I am to round buttons, like that royal blue number up there in the upper right. Simply because if I make my own panel making a round hole is quite straight forward. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted April 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Yeah, that is good reason to be attracted with round buttons. ;DIf you are making panel using hands round is choice. Once I was cutting narrow holes for slidrs on a 2mm aluminum and never again. :o ??? Crazyness!But I am lately thinking of laser cuted plexiglass . You can do it witn only one hand-tool, mouse. There`s good variety of colours and transparencies. You can screenprint your artwork on top of it and leave signs and letters clear so you can illuminate everithing from belove - good for using in dark enviroment. Clubs, or dark basement studio :).I`m thinking of making controller especially designed for Ableton Live with that kind of illumination. I think it can looks great and could be also really usefull for liveplaying. So, at the end I am definitly for lots of square buttons, and round knobs. Like it should be! ;) Cutting plexiglass is much cheaper than aluminum since it needs less time to cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneburst Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Sifam do custom colours too! I'm thinking of trying to get hold of some of the soft-touch ones in white, maybe with different colour lines, for different sections of the SID control-panel (so the filter section would be red, say, and the envelope controls blue etc.). The only problem is it looks like they have quite high minimum order quantities. Maybe I'll try ang get some samples out of them, anyway. Would anyone else perhaps be interested in some white soft-touch knobs (assuming I have to make a bulk order)? I'm happy to just order one colour-combination if necessary (white body+grey or blue line, maybe).The ones I'm thinking of at the moment are the the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones on this page:http://www.sifam.com/2colpush_on_result.lasso?Skip=4&Type=SoftAnyone any thoughts?Alexhttp://www.toneburst.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTurner Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I've started a couple designs that will have the front panels cut in plexiglas. It was just Waaaayyyy cheaper than aluminum (about 1/3rd the price). There's a place in my town that'll charge a $20 setup, about $1 per square foot for material, and the actual cutting fee is about another $20-30 on top, comparable work in aluminum would be $120+.Pros: Cheap, can be laser-cut, modifications are easy to do with regular tools, can be back-lit, can be easily silk-screened (with the right ink), comes in a variety of colors and transparencies, can be laser-etched, solvent-welded, and bent with the right tools.Cons: Scratches easily, in order for panels to be rigid they have to be about 6mm thick and thus you have to take that into account with your controllers (slide potentiometers have to have an extra long shaft)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Cons: Scratches easily, in order for panels to be rigid they have to be about 6mm thick and thus you have to take that into account with your controllers (slide potentiometers have to have an extra long shaft)...You can use thinner plexiglas if you support it underneath... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.