I AM A LONDON BASED PRODUCER, MY ARTIST NAME IS BLIND MINDED
I NEED TO FIND SOMEONE THAT CAN BUILD ME A SPECIFIC CONTROLLER TO USE FOR MY LIVE SET, AS I CAN NOT FIND 1 IN THE MARKET AND I AM ALWASY UNHAPPY WITH THE NE I HAVE NOW…
WHAT I USE AT THE MOMENT IS
A MAC BOOK PRO PLUS MOTU ULTRALITE
RUNNING ABLETON LIVE 8
AKAI MPC 40, PLUS SYNTH CONECTED VIA MIDI AND A THEREMIN.
I HAVE MY IDEA TIGHT AND READY, IT WILL NEED TO BE HALF MIDI BUT ALSO WITH SOME ANOLOG I/P
AS I WANT TO ELEIMINATE THE ANALOG MIXER THAT I HAVE TO CARRY WITH ME TO EVERY GIG AND HAVE A BIG BOX WITH EVERYTHING I NEED IN IT.
LET ME KNOW IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME WITH THIS..
I AM QUITE KEEN ON CHANGING PROGRAM IF NEED IT OR WHATEVER
I will write specifically what i need for my controller hopefully there is going to be someone able to help me.
Yeah, we will be able to help you build it yourself! I’m pretty sure that you will not find anyone here who will build for you… you see, we’re busy building and learning for ourselves
To build yourself does not make it cheaper - often it will be even more expensive, so maybe you should just google for a box that suits your needs.
Remember that gigging wears equipment severely, so with time your box will break and you will have to repair it anyways, so it’s better to buy some behringer crap-box because you’ll have some kind of warranty, or you can easily buy a new one without busting your budget! If you really want a sexy custom controller, then you will have to learn how to build it yourself this also means that you’ll be able to repair it if it eventually breaks… plus the girls will be twice as impressed, instead of telling them ‘some dude built it for me’
Hi Blind, and welcome. Control Surfaces, of all the MIDIboxes, tend to be the easiest to design and build, because the hardware requirements are simple and troubleshooting is easy. If you follow the instructions and the help you get here, you should be able to pull it off.
What nobody has told you yet is that all the stuff here is based on the MIDIbox Hardware Platform, which is a collection of simple circuits you’ll find at www.ucapps.de. These little boards get put together to form complete projects. The design and software comes almost exclusively from Thorsten Klose, a.k.a. TK on this forum. TK offers his incredible firmware coding chops to us ravenous builders for free! Anybody can build projects based on his excellent platform as they wish, with one condition: nobody is allowed to profit, on a commercial level, for his work.
So you’ll be hard pressed to find anybody on this forum who is willing to build one of these boxes for you. But all is not lost … with a bit of soldering skill and a vision, it is easy to realize the MIDI controller you want, provided you can find the time.
If you browse this forum you’ll find a lot of people come in with no knowledge or experience, and end up building really amazing stuff. Others get intimidated and disappear
Before you post your design here, may I suggest you browse ucapps.de (particularly look at the MIDIbox 64 and MIDIbox 64e projects), and then search the forum and the wiki (and Google) for stuff you have trouble understanding. Make an evening of it. Then post your needs for a controller here.
Noobs are welcome here. Noobs who don’t do at least a little research for themselves are generally not.
thx a lot, yes I am spending the time I find on researching some stuff on the midi controllers I found some intresting stuff when i ll feel ready to start I will post thje design here and get some more advices.
I have asked to some companies already but they all talking about 3000 £ minimum and obviously I can’t spend those money in a controller right now, with out even having the guaranty that is gonna work!!!
do you guyz thing is possible that I am gonna spend that much money?
