I am building a Maven

myztmuzic · Post by **myztmuzic** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:01 pm

Cant wait to see your Maven-pics, jonpaul

Very refreshing watching serious people doing stuff like this -and keeping us updated like u do

Good luck!!

mathew · Post by **mathew** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:07 am

check midibox.org if you wanna see people actually doing this.

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:22 am

Oh for sure there are loads doing it. I have the bonus of a mate who does CAD for a living so hoping mine will look sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:28 am

Im just pricing compiling parts myself are you doing a straight copy Jon?

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:32 am

O BTW Here's some spy shots you may be interested in:-

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:08 am

Was going to try to. Will ammend it slightly. I wanna frak people out when they say "Where did you get that!!!!"

Those pictures are very useful. Got any more real close ups?

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:00 pm

jonpaul wrote:Was going to try to. Will ammend it slightly. I wanna frak people out when they say "Where did you get that!!!!"

Those pictures are very useful. Got any more real close ups?

Nar just those dude, I expect the green button on top of the channels is a channel on/off and the two below the return/send for each channel are loop start/end and out.

Look forward to seeing your box dude!

Marcus

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:06 pm

I was thinking they would be mute and stop. Seeing as the controls are midi assignable, I wonder how you would use the two buttons as you say.

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:08 pm

Well you can set them for two separate Cv messages on the first and second down hence my assumption

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:06 pm

Are you sure? I will be using Midibox technology. Are you positive this can be done?

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:03 am

Next bit of news! Meeting up with my mate. He has got all the components drawn up in CAD. Having a few beers tomorrow night and dicussing the final functionality details, cosmetics etc before starting the big build. Those recent close ups helped a lot. Cheers for that!!!!

I can't wait!

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:13 am

Parts are ordered and on their way. Dead excited.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:44 am

cough up a list of parts, why doncha?

I like seeing just one button for A/B selection. Keeps it simple. Also, sliders for fx sends are very cool - I've seen an expanded version of that on this monster controller (in progress). Looks like it has some of the ideas from the Maven going on;
http://www.eufex.co.uk/controller/live% ... 0panel.jpg

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:18 pm

Parts are easy. Go to midibox.org for instructions. The central components are from

http://www.mikes-elektronikseite.de/sho ... /index.htm

I am buying the midibox 64 along with many 10k pots and 10k faders, PIC and LCD display (for programming). The buttons I have sourced from a company in Derby I think and look just like the ones on Maven (hmmm green, puple blue red and white). As for the casing of the mixer, its all gonna be custom made via CAD. Thats pretty much it I think. Oh apart from the odd knob here and there. Most electronics companies like CPC or Maplin supply these. However, we are hunting down some nice stainless ones. We may end up making them ourselves on a laithe (is that how you spell it?).

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:24 pm

jonpaul wrote:The buttons I have sourced from a company in Derby I think

hmmm. Anything more specific than that? The internal stuff is always kinda standard, but the knobs and trimmings are the hard ones to get right...