the becoming of a midbox chaos.

Wisefire · December 6, 2005, 1:48pm

i will be trying to recreate a midicontroller along the lines of a korg kaoss pad.

i have received some ribbon controllers and an x/y pad some time ago, and ive been wanting to do

something with it..

this would mean i would have program the specific application myself.. im not a master programmer so i will be needing some help..

pictures will soon follow as usual..

obviously everybody can join in.. building the same controller in my footsteps.. its all good..

Wisefire · December 6, 2005, 7:33pm

Wisefire · December 12, 2005, 1:08am

ive been thinking..

first of all the xy pad needs to be thought out… how to get the xy data out of the pad.. ill be looking into that.. but i first have to find a non destructive way to get the xy pad connected..

i also have another idea.. remember the stylophone.. i sure dont.. but i know it it has been used by some cewl musician people..

so why not incorporate that into my midibox chaos.. 2 different methods of achieving this are..

each contact point a different input in a din module.. or
each contact point has got a different resistance.. and put that into a ain module..

and ofcourse program the core to understand it all..

Wisefire · December 14, 2005, 2:23am

ok.. ive measured the xy pad.. and its not giving straight xy values.. its giving diagonal xy values.. like an x through the pad..

so if i want straight xy, ill have to do some math..

Steven_C · December 26, 2005, 1:01am

So how does such a membrane work? is it resistive? Is that how touch screens work?

Wisefire · December 30, 2005, 12:28pm

i have no clue how touch screens work.. afaik, they use a thin film on top of a screen which measures conductivity.

this works as 2 pot meters in an X shape..

machinate · January 12, 2006, 9:03am

Hi, I’m looking into the whole ribbon controller thing as well - might I ask where you found these?

Wisefire · January 16, 2006, 11:08am

http://www.spectrasymbol.com/

i ordered a free sample

machinate · January 16, 2006, 11:26am

cool. Thanks for the link!

Are you getting decent results from these? I was looking for a cool way of doing non-traditional crossfaders, and I think a ribbon controller will be fun.

Wisefire · January 16, 2006, 1:59pm

crossfader.. good idea..

ill position one horizontally instead of vertically..

Jaicen · January 27, 2006, 12:54pm

Hey, has anybody got any results from this?? What sort of output do you get from the XY controller outputs??

Do you get summed resistances??

Wisefire · March 2, 2006, 4:40pm

well.. this would be an update i guess.. ive bought an xy joystick to put in this thing!

im a bit over my head in terms of programming i think.. but ill cross that bridge when i come to that..