Cool design, though personally I think the area around the LCD looks a little empty with the screen stuck there almost like an afterthought. Very cool layout though, and I love the big “turntables” so you can scratch. You gonna coat the aluminium with something so they’re not too slippy?
That’s looking good, looks more professional now you’re not using brightly coloured buttons and the LCDs look better placed to my eye. Can’t wait to see some build photos ;D
Anyhow: I really would put the LCDs a little higher. Reason: When you work with your thing, you “should always” see them. If you have your hand over the scratch wheels or somewhere else you won´t be able to read the LCDs. Just as a small hint.
And: When u use those layouts, did you think about bringing in the DINs/DOUTs and so on partly or all directly on the PCB? I did so and it wasn´t as much work as I first thought (you can copy&paste layouts in Eagle pretty easy - it´s stated in the tutorial somewhere). This way you´re saving a lot of cables and space -> your case becomes more compact and your stuff more stable (meaning both failures: The soldering itself and the breaking/bending/whatever of cables).
i know the positions of the lcds are not so good, but i thing it’s not necessary to have lcds for traktor, because traktor ist not able to send midi out events,
now i decided to use only one lcd to read programing messages from mios, not integrated in the front panel,
the push buttons are soldered directly on the pcbs,
and this is a little board to check the middle posstion of the crossfader,
i will use a small cheap microcontroler ( only 4 euro ), the led shows the middlepostion
One more hint - you know there’s a bug in Traktor regarding scratching, right? Unless you’re using the MIDI timecode discs in Final Scratch it doesn’t really scratch very well. There’s a lot of skipping and popping.
The bug has been present since Traktor 2.0 and while NI has been informed about it multiple times there’s been no fix from them yet.
One other thing - I think that those tempo reset buttons are setting you up for some massive ohshit moments to happen when you accidentally reset one and the train comes on. Might want to reposition - or, if MIOS can do this, require that they be pressed for a time, or be pressed 3 times in a row or something.
