Momentray Push Button Pots/ Rotary Encoders & Buttons

[The III Man]

Hi - ive got a few parts questions im hoping peeps can help me with.

I'm planning the lay out of a midibox 64e which will be a 6 track ableton controller.

1, I bought a faderfox a few months ago and its too small for me but one thing it has that is really useful is the rotary encoders also double as push buttons. I want to replicate this on my controller so that my 3 eq pots are also push buttons that i can use as kill switches when pushed. Does anyone know of a pot that has this function? I know you can do it with rotary encoders but i dont want the feel of an encoder on my eq's - alternatively does anyone know of a rotary encoder with a push button that feels like a normal pot?

2, does anyone know where to get buttons similar to those on the monodeck 2 - standard simple push buttons. - http://www.monolake.de/monodeck2.html

3, anyone know where I can find an endless jog wheel? Do they behave like rotary encoders or would i hook it up as two buttons

4 - does reichelt have an english version - it looks great but i cant understand a word unfortunately

thanks for your help

III

[stryd_one]

Heya

1) You can remove the detents from encoders so they turn smoothly but they will be continuous, not limited to a 270^o turn like pots

3) Same place you buy other knobs, and it's an encoder, but you can have two buttons instead

4) We wish!

:)

[The III Man]

thanks for your help. Yeah i think i am a traditionalist with the EQ pots and really want them to function like standard mixer ones. I'm irritated i didnt do german at school cos its such an arse trying to find suppliers of the correct parts... still on the search for those style of buttons.....

cheers

[stryd_one]

I think I've seen tact switch caps like those... maybe they're not pushbuttons? I'd have to leave that to monolake to comment on...

Hunting for parts is 50% fun, and 50% fate-worse-than-death ;) Only Wilba knows the insane lengths I've gone to, to find just the right parts....

It might not help that I decided to build to military specifications and emulate the console specs of a B1 bomber for my digital stuff and the M1 tank for the analog..... and trying to do it on a relatively (to the USAF) minimal budget ;)

I've spent months searching and getting insane quotes (USD$88 for a jogwheel for example) and finding bargains (I got em for 15!) in the corners of the globe and having them shipped to me down under. OK I'm an extreme example of being choosy about parts but yeh, the part hunt can be rough, especially when you've got something really particular in mind. You want a challenge? Try finding 2x40 PLED displays ;)

If I had a core module for every time I decided to forget it and just buy the cheapest option, I'd be TK. Then again, if I had a DIN for every time I'd decided to stick with it, I'd be SmashTV heheheheh

Hang in there ;)