neodjandre, if you need some help with Traktor+MB Let me know.
If you have some “ideas” let me know. If you need ideas…well, you are on the right place.
Thanx, Seppoman,
who wrote:
[Now you can start to experiment: buy a few switches, pots, faders or whatever you like, connect them, explore the possibilities of the system. Take a piece of card board, cut holes in it and put the switches on it. This way you can find out what controls are needed for your purpose, and what layout of the surface suits you best].
Now I don’t feel so weird, setting up templates of foam coreboard and running wires all over the bench to verify what I’m doing. I ask myself does IT make sense? Does THIS make sense … does THAT make sense …
So thanx Seppoman - some of us do need to play “what if.”
In this culture of buying everything completely assembled and planned for instant obsolence, I love the fact I can do my humble experimentation to actually create something with stuff from Tim at Smash TV and pieces of discarded electronics and who knows what else from Radio Shack that otherwise would never exist.
My organ project is more than overwhelming … at first glance. And it requires more time than I have at my disposal to devote to it … at first glance. And I have no skill to create it … at first glance.
But with the patience of those who post to this list, it is possible to achieve success, and that is what it’s all about. We have hindsight that Davies and Tesla and Edison and others who have electronic terms named after them never had.
And thanx to the Internet, we are connected in the timeframe of an instant to a day or two to find somebody has solved our problems and posted it here.
Sure, my workdesk may resemble a discombulated Christmas Tree, but by golly, I’m gonna figure it out one way or another.
After all, I’m doing something that isn’t just waiting on a shelf at an electronics mart somethere for me to pick up and check out at the counter.
And those ten most important words:
If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me
gain significance because of guys like TK and Tim at Smash.
Doesn’t mean I don’t grind my teeth or read the same posts over and over again hoping and praying for the proverbial light to click on, but hey,
I’m creating something specifically for me, to serve my needs in a unique way that would never otherwise exist.
And more specifically, in the cause of serving the King of Instruments, to create a touring replica of the local WurliTzer that resides in our home town theatre is becoming a reality.
I have been told outright by many braver and more knowledgeable than myself that what I seek to accomplish is not feasible, practical, or even necessary.
Hah! Just watch me! I can’t do it alone, but the fellowship of this list opens up potential beyond all imagination. And when I finally solder and stuff the final piece, I’ll be ready for my next project … and a heck of a lot smarter.
As I wrote last week, Mark Twain commented that anyone who’s ever had a tiger by the tail knows a whole lot more about a tiger than somebody who hasn’t!
pk
Hah! Just watch me! I can’t do it alone, but the fellowship of this list opens up potential beyond all imagination. And when I finally solder and stuff the final piece, I’ll be ready for my next project … and a heck of a lot smarter.
Amen!! my bra-duh!! I was in the same boat few months back!! ;D ;D Very well said!!