eufex Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) I've finally got round to taking pics of my 2 'finished' projects. 2xLC box is now 99.5% complete apart from a little bit of coding to change display information. Live controller is 95% complete - just midibox link and configuration to complete: Original construction and build pics in this thread http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=4909.0 Cheers and a HUGE thumbs up to everyone Edited March 23, 2010 by eufex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Wow huh! I think this might be well suited to the MIDIBox of the Week thread ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrygr Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Midi box of the month even. They are excellent. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screaming_Rabbit Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 ... very nice work eufex... congrats!Greets, Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBunsen Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I can just imagine visitors to the studio."Nice desk, what is it?""Oh, I built that""..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I can just imagine visitors to the studio."Nice desk, what is it?""Oh, I built that""..."lol ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 see above - fantastic work! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pay_c Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 :-* :-* :-*Lovely machine indeed! Some competition to Axel´s LC´s (at last! ;) )! Congrats to that beautiful monster! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Yes, the LC box is very much based on Axel's - huge props to him for a brilliant original design. There are (minor) changes to the design for Cubase and button layout/layering and things are a bit different internally with the mounting etc but it's virtually a cross between Axel's 2xLC and 3xLC design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Here are a few more build pics of the live box...it's a bit of a rat's nest in there ;D The live box contains an MAudio Firewire Audiophile for firewire/midi/audio which runs from a 12v supply, as does the goose-neck lamp. Fortunately both work fine from an unregulated supply (MAudio regulation is on the board) so I simply tapped my power supply after rectification and before regulation for 5v. The 2xLC box contains the board from a Midisport 2x2 for USB MIDI and a dual regulated power supply of my own design (very large toroidal transformer used). Also in the box the design was changed with regards to the LED rings for the encoders being mounted on vero strips - mounting the encoder and button proved to be problematic with the button not being 'solid' enough so circuit boards were built for this section. The meters however are still mounted on strips. Edited March 23, 2010 by eufex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTE Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 :o :o S o m a n y c a b l e s :o :overy great work !!!RegardsMTE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted January 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 LOL. Yes - it took a whole reel of 16way ribbon cable (30m!) + some more and then extra wiring for +5v and grounds. It's a fully stacked 3 core box, no spare capacity 1x MB64, 2xMB64E so I think that's 3 cores, 2Ain, 10Din, 10Dout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Hey eufex, nice job! I like idea of using sliders for send. Short sliders are much faster to operate than rotaryes.One thing is strange to me on your Live controller. I see you are using 2 buttons and LEDs for selecting the A/B, but that function in Live is mapable only to one multipress button. Press once>B, press twice>A, press trice>none. Is that planing error. I made that kind f error on my NI Traktor controller. I made two buttons for filter type selection, but Traktor supports only one. Please explain.What kind of touchpad you used for your boxes? I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted March 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Yes I prefer sliders for that too - also I find it better for moving more than 2 at the same time with any accuracy.You are quite right about the A/B mapping in Ableton - only 1 controller is used. It wasn't a planning error however as I wanted the option of two buttons which can be acheived with some coding or max jiggery pokery. Of course it also gives me the option of just using 1 button and then having 1 spare for something else - one idea has been to use it to switch between the send sliders and a second 'virtual' bank of sliders, although then the inital point of getting as much on the front panel as possible to keep everything completely visual and transparent would be lost.The touchpads are very reasonably priced ones from Voti. I found that to get them to mount flat with enough firmness to be able to press the buttons you need to make a metal bracket which sits underneath them - I just used some sheet steel with 2 mounting holes drilled and then used some very large washers on the screws to hold it all together firmly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Thanks for the answer Eufex. That touchpad are pretty cheap. How is its quality/precision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeb Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 Woah. Could all that wiring be dangerous? Cause heat issues? Reminds me of the electrical mess in the movie A Christmas Story. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Yes the touchpad works perfectly OK. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is 'tap' mode like most modern touchpads do where you can hold the cursor in one position and quickly tap on the pad in another position to make the cursor 'zip'.In answer to the next question....no there are no heat issues, we're hardly talking 90kW VSDs here and it's all perfecetly safe. I could have spent an age making the wiring really neat but there isn't too much of an advantage in doing so - it was a mammoth task as it was getting the two boxes finished in parallel in 14 months and I'd rather get the project on to the next stage which is preparing all of the music for playing live and practicing rather than being anal about the neatness of the wiring ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted June 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Pics will be back up shortly - I'm just in the process of moving my web hosting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Two of the pictures can also be found on the midibox.org server:http://www.midibox.org/midibox_gallery/eufex3.jpghttp://www.midibox.org/midibox_gallery/eufex4.jpgBest Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted June 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 :)CheersI will get the build pictures back up as soon as I can - I'm having problems with the transfer of my domain to a new registrar at the moment - they accidentally cancelled the process on the first attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haris Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Yes, the LC box is very much based on Axel's - huge props to him for a brilliant original design. There are (minor) changes to the design for Cubase and button layout/layering and things are a bit different internally with the mounting etc but it's virtually a cross between Axel's 2xLC and 3xLC design.Hey great box you've got there!I am planning to do a similar controller. Any chance of those build photos for 64E?And I've tried emailing you but your email is not working also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted September 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 HiSorry I've not been around for a while. Is it the 2xLC box you're interested in or the 3xCore 64E and 64 box? Hopefully my domain is sorted again and I'll be able to put the pics up if I can find the backup DVD. If not then I'll put them on rapidshare or something for you to download. I've not used the domain email for a very long time - I got fed up with spam and idiots I was getting 400+ emails a day and it became to difficult to filter out the genuine ones. People in the music industry know how to get hold of me so it hasn't posed too much of a problem in that respect...Incidentally, if anyone is interested I have a spare front panel for the 3x box - maybe this should go in the other forum but I thought I'd mention it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Just popped back in - changing some LC code and found all these photos on the same DVD: Photobucket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 All the pics in all of your threads are dead. Would you mind attaching them to the posts? <broken-record>offsite doco bad</broken-record> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eufex Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 All the pics are on the photobucket link. no idea how I'd attach them to old posts. I don't have my old login details anyway and can't do a password request as I no longer have the same email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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