Tanstaafl Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Howdy dudes and dudettes! Been a while since I posted, just thought I would show off my latest midibox project. I have always been a fan of anything MOOG, and it seems my projects reflect this proclivity. My latest project is a midibox 64 (32 setup now with room to grow) interfaced to Arturia's MiniMoog V virtual synth. Pictures available at:http://www.ggbnet.com/MiniMoogV.htmlThe second picture shows it sitting in front of my DAW (Mac Pro down in the lower left, Logic Studio 8, Midisport 2X2 and Emagic A62M). Hopefully I will get it into my rack setup this weekend and start making noise! Now I just need to figure out how to get Logic to read my setup file for the interface, as of yet I am only running stand alone for full control of all the knobs and switches. Guess I need to look at the 'LC' stuff to get this going.c ya,gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Oh, all I have to do is turn on the midibox before I start logic.... duh.Working great in Logic 8, all knobs and switches work, sounds wunderbar! The software is a bit different from the original Model D in a few ways but one addition that I really like is the new built-in sequencer. I have not built that panel yet, it should take up the rest of the pots and switches for the mb64and be a 1U strip on the top.well, back to noodleing....c ya gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Looking forward to seeing it out of the plastic! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 That looks nice - I love how you even got the knobs to match the vsti :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Stryd_one: Yeah, the protective coating is kinda grodie looking. The panel under the plastic is 3 'letter' sized pages from a laser printer spliced together just to get the drilling pattern. The final will be a single sheet of 13" x 19" Epson Photo paper, cut to size and laminated. This will be affixed to the outside of the panel. It should look a bit better.nILS: I printed out a HUGE screenshot of the Arturia virtual control surface, then measured and redrew in AutoCAD, then took that into Illustrator to clean up the text. Believe it or not, Radio Shack has boat loads of those old Moog style knobs. I could not find a reasonable price for the colored rocker switches however. I had a ton of the toggle switches on my junk pile so used those, I hope in the future to be able to afford the rockers but the cheapest I saw those for was about 7 bux USD. Over $100 just for the switches. I didn't pay that much for the kits and pots from Smash!Anyway, thanx for the input, as I make mods I will post updates.gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Red, green and black rocker switches are fairly common. The blue and green ones are kinda hard to get a hold of though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted November 14, 2007 Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 I have to say that is trully awesome!If arturia made controllers especially for Minimoog, then they should look something like that!I love the waythe Font looks the exact same too.I was only thinking about a dedicated controller for VSTs lately.Wouldnt it be cool if there was some sort of motorised midi controller...thats knobs and sliders could "popup" in the same places as they appear onscreen in the vst.Or that could move or slide into position.If it was fast enough to move everything into place at the click of a vst, and possible to manufatureit would the perfect midi controller!For example, its minimoog patch, would look something similar to the controller you built.It would be even harder to illuminate the text/name for each knob!Sounds impossible but it would be cool none the less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 I have toyed with the idea of using rotational motor faders (not sure where I would find those) so that when I call up a patch, it would change the knobs.... hmm what about the switches though?.... Anyway, if I do anything like that, it's a bit down the road timewise. As it stands, I am familiar with the Minimoog interface (I owned one back in the 70's-80's), and it only takes a touch to have the midibox read the pots and reflect position on the screen. I really don' t use the screen much and minimize the Moog window in Logic unless I need to do something with the sequencer bit (which of course did not exist on the original). I still need to build the sequencer controller surface. But, generally for sequences, I use the MoogModular V, it's a bit more powerful.I tried to get as close to the Moog font as I could, even looked for a Moog font online but they weren't ANYTHING like Moog's true font. For lighting the labels, I am kinda going for the Model D look ... not the Voyager look.Thanx for the input and check back often as the webpage will change often in the next few weeks.gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R64 Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 That is fantastic! Very sexy.Where did you get the panel done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 Did it myself!1. Highres screen grab2. Rescale in photoshop to fit 19" rack3. Measure centers on all knobs / switches4. Draw in AutoCAD5. Plot ACAD drawing to EPS file6. Edit EPS file in Illustrator (clean up / Text objects)7. Print 1:1 on Epson 2200 (13"x19" print)8. Tape to front of Lexam panel (5.25" x 19")9. Drill holes at drill press10. Mount knobs and switches.I still need to do a 'photo' quality print, remove all knobs and switches and the protective coating on the Lexam, then remount everything with the new 'photo' print.gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Is there any chance you could take more pics of the controller?Preferably from the back?It looks really nice and compact in those pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 I'll do that in the next couple of days, my digital camera is giving me fits!The faceplate is 19" x 5.25"....to fit my rack. The Midibox portion is small, 1 Core, 1 DinX4, 1 Ain.gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Red, green and black rocker switches are fairly common. The blue and green ones are kinda hard to get a hold of though. I kinda contradicted myself here :D Green ones are common, yellow/orange is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted November 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 The rockers from my original Model D were Reddish/Orange and kind of a 'Robins Egg Blue' or Cyan. I have not been able to find any stock switches with the exact colors... don't really know if it's worth a special mfg. run. I'm thinking a nice airbrush job (so I could match the colors) with a clear coat afterwards to minimize rub off.gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Howdy fellow MidiBoxers! I finally got some pix of the working end of my Minimoog V / MB64.enjoygb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Oh look, you have tiny racks and a desk lamp in your rack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 That hole has now been filled with the MidiBox MoogModularV control surface. :-)gbps.... no pix of that, yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanstaafl Posted February 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 I've been building these things (various midiboxes) for a couple of years now but have never needed to 'label' my buttons/switches so that I can read the controller change on the LCD.In the *.ini file I upload to the midibox, I can see where to change the pot labels and have done so (when I touch a pot, the LCD displays the knob name on my virtual synth), but I am not finding where I can change the button/switch names so that they will display on the LCD when I flip the switch.Am I simply blind/clueless? Or is it rocket science?TIA,gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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