<div dir="auto">I mean I already have a pretty good Keyboard, it's an Arturia Keylab Essential 61 Key. Its has some faders and encoders. As I'm doing quite a bit of mixing too, a midi controller with motor faders and some additional control would come in quite handy. There's stuff like the Presonus Faderport or the Icon Platform X, or if you want to go High End theres the Avid Artist Mix. That's something i would want to build. Do you guys have any Experience with this kind of stuff. And btw, my main DAWs are Cubase and Pro Tools on Windows </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <<a href="mailto:sleepy_dog@gmx.de">sleepy_dog@gmx.de</a>> schrieb am Fr., 13. März 2020, 19:03:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Am 13.03.2020 um 14:19 schrieb Lena Kolb:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Yeah, i have a midi keyboard. But midi is quite a
good idea. I may take a look at a midi controller with faders.
Like a mixer controller. Do you have some links for that <br>
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Well, any sort of requirements? Price range?<br>
I remember the Behringer BC...something, they had some with rotary
encoders, and one with faders, but I believe they were motor faders
and hence not very many.<br>
I can't find something like that anymore right now, all I see is
"DAW controllers" which are geared towards, well, controlling DAWs,
and not so cheap either (for a Behringer product - probably because
of motor faders, which are nice... but low in number):<br>
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Ok, floating around used. Not faders but rotary encoders:<br>
<a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/Behringer-BCR2000-mit-Zaquencer/283808528500" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.ebay.de/itm/Behringer-BCR2000-mit-Zaquencer/283808528500</a><br>
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There'd be enough space to put some printed out stickers for
function names under/above each encoder.<br>
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Depending on how much you are attached to your MIDI keyboard (in
case of swap, e.g. buy one, sell the old), or opposed to just
getting another one:<br>
There are a lot of MIDI keyboards with quite a number of faders and
encoders and / or pots.<br>
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<a href="https://www.thomann.de/intl/m_audio_oxygen_49_mk4.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thomann.de/intl/m_audio_oxygen_49_mk4.htm</a><br>
<a href="https://www.thomann.de/intl/novation_launchkey_49_mk2_b_stock.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thomann.de/intl/novation_launchkey_49_mk2_b_stock.htm</a><br>
<a href="https://www.thomann.de/intl/roland_a_500_pro_b_stock.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thomann.de/intl/roland_a_500_pro_b_stock.htm</a><br>
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Super cheap if it's really only about the knobs, which are probably
not great, but for experimenting...<br>
(and the keys... eat space and are probably crap, but... since the
"lotsa knobs controller box"es I knew aren't a thing anymore
apparently...)<br>
<a href="https://www.thomann.de/intl/miditech_i2control_37_black.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thomann.de/intl/miditech_i2control_37_black.htm</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">ShedSynth <<a href="mailto:shedsynth@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shedsynth@gmail.com</a>>
schrieb am Fr., 13. März 2020, 10:50:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi Lena,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>this is brilliant: you’re
getting every possible answer to your original
question.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Do you have access to any sort
of MIDI keyboard?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>You might like to look at this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Arduino-sound-synthesizer-with-MIDI/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Arduino-sound-synthesizer-with-MIDI/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>That could be a good intro to
following a circuit, soldering, working with Arduino
and generally bodging things together to make a noise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In fact I was inspired this
week by your original message to add MIDI input to a
module I built two years ago, and the code from that
instructable sounds quite sweet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>This is a safer MIDI circuit,
you don’t want to fry a borrowed keyboard:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/56279/how-do-i-properly-receive-midi-with-arduino-with-6n138" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/56279/how-do-i-properly-receive-midi-with-arduino-with-6n138</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>If you don’t want to build an
amplifier you can connect to an audio input like this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/learn/output/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/learn/output/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Al</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lena Kolb<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 March 2020 22:00<br>
<b>To:</b> MTG <<a href="mailto:grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>
DIY <<a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Getting Started with DIY
Synths</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm open to anything. But a
complete synth would be pretty sexy </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MTG <<a href="mailto:grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com</a>>
schrieb am Do., 12. März 2020, 20:20:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Did the OP mention modular? I
don't remember seeing that. It might be <br>
more gratifying to start out with a simple
"complete" synth.<br>
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