Another cool salvaged case...

[creatorlars]

So I found another cool case the other day, it's an old Paltex video editing console (picture attached.)  It's probably about 19"x19" and rack mountable.  As you can see there are some extremely nice tact switches, some with LEDs, and some good colors... and three extremely high quality jog wheels (looking inside it looks like they are mounted on a pot/spring assembly. 

Everything on the frontpanel is mounted onto a board with a connector that connects to the rest of the unit.  I know this is a perfect candidate for a Midibox guts project!!  But what?  Potentially a sequencer, but I'm already almost done with one.  It would be awesome if I could design around the panel and button arrangement already in place.  Let me know if you have any ideas. :)  Salvaging the buttons and making a new panel would probably be cool too.

[DrBunsen]

That is nice ...  It screams Traktor/insert DJ software/ controller to me - but what would be most useful to you?

Are the dark panels removable, with buttons/wheels still attached?

For anyone else who stumbles in here, I'll mention that I added a couple of posts about funky salvage to the ebay thread.