the becoming of a midbox chaos.

[Wisefire]

i will be trying to recreate a midicontroller along the lines of a korg kaoss pad.

i have received some ribbon controllers and an x/y pad some time ago, and ive been wanting to do

something with it..

this would mean i would have program the specific application myself.. im not a master programmer so i will be needing some help..

pictures will soon follow as usual..

obviously everybody can join in.. building the same controller in my footsteps.. its all good..

[Wisefire]

[Wisefire]

ive been thinking..

first of all the xy pad needs to be thought out... how to get the xy data out of the pad.. ill be looking into that.. but i first have to find a non destructive way to get the xy pad connected..

i also have another idea.. remember the stylophone.. i sure dont.. but i know it it has been used by some cewl musician people..

so why not incorporate that into my midibox chaos.. 2 different methods of achieving this are..

1. each contact point a different input in a din module.. or

2. each contact point has got a different resistance.. and put that into a ain module..

and ofcourse program the core to understand it all..

[Wisefire]

ok.. ive measured the xy pad.. and its not giving straight xy values.. its giving diagonal xy values.. like an x through the pad..

so if i want straight xy, ill have to do some math..

[Steven_C]

So how does such a membrane work? is it resistive? Is that how touch screens work?

[Wisefire]

i have no clue how touch screens work.. afaik, they use a thin film on top of a screen which measures conductivity.

this works as 2 pot meters in an X shape..

[machinate]

Hi, I'm looking into the whole ribbon controller thing as well - might I ask where you found these?

[Wisefire]

http://www.spectrasymbol.com/

i ordered a free sample

[machinate]

cool. Thanks for the link!

Are you getting decent results from these? I was looking for a cool way of doing non-traditional crossfaders, and I think a ribbon controller will be fun.

[Wisefire]

crossfader.. good idea..

ill position one  horizontally instead of vertically..

[Jaicen]

Hey, has anybody got any results from this?? What sort of output do you get from the XY controller outputs??

Do you get summed resistances??

[Wisefire]

well.. this would be an update i guess.. ive bought an xy joystick to put in this thing!

im a bit over my head in terms of programming i think.. but ill cross that bridge when i come to that..