White APC40 :-)

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White APC40 :-)

Post by auditory canvas » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:21 am

Just gave it a paint job today, not quite finished, still need to add a few red lines to the fader bank, and some minimal red lettering on some of it.

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by DangerousDave » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:24 am

Dang son, that looks pretty legit. Did you just tape off the buttons and whatnot cause it is really clean. Nice work...way to accesorize :wink:
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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by auditory canvas » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:28 am

Thanks very much. I actually stripped it down, only took about 20 mins, and most of that was unscrewing the huge number of screws.

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by UncleT » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:38 am

Hey, nice idea: looks like an iPC40 now! :wink:

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by nuperspective » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:59 am

theres a bit of a theme here. when your not making tunes are you the grand wizard at your local chapter? :D

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by auditory canvas » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:07 am

@Rave, @ UncleT, thank you.

@nuperspective, you got me, how did you know, hang on, Gandalf, is that you? I didn't know you were a Live user, we could have exchanged clip launch and effect rack spells....

Umm, ok, maybe I inhaled too much paint today.....

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by SubFunk » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:23 am

auditory canvas wrote:Just gave it a paint job today, not quite finished, still need to add a few red lines to the fader bank, and some minimal red lettering on some of it.

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wow, nice... i don't understand why they are only making a black one anyway...
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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by Nick Shepherd » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:59 am

looks pretty sexy... wel done :)

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by Pasha » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:29 am

Nicer than the original... ;-) Great!
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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by nuperspective » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:43 am

yeah the black one is so last week - literally.

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by hoffman2k » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:17 am

While you were in there, did you notice how the faders were hooked up?
Are they connected with a ribbon? Mounted to the big main pcb? Or are they attached to a smaller PCB that is in turn connected to the main pcb?

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by auditory canvas » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:30 am

hoffman2k wrote:While you were in there, did you notice how the faders were hooked up?
Are they connected with a ribbon? Mounted to the big main pcb? Or are they attached to a smaller PCB that is in turn connected to the main pcb?

While in Rome...
They are mounted to the main pcb. I was hoping there would be room to replace them with flying faders, and control them with an arduino board, but there's not room for either. The encoders are the same profile and circuit height though, so you could replace the faders with encoders, then it's just working out a hack to get them to receive feedback from live as to position for when you jump to the next track bank.

Pic here of the circuit holding the faders: http://www.twitpic.com/6wvfy

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by Sales Dude McBoob » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:58 pm

It looks more like an Akai. :)

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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by logic_user99 » Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:05 pm

Nice one; very bold. You're braver than me... I wouldn't take paint anywhere near it!
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Re: White APC40 :-)

Post by SubFunk » Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:27 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:It looks more like an Akai. :)
is is an akai. :cry:
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