I am building a Maven

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Sun May 21, 2006 5:55 pm

**** sake it will be obsolite by the time its made and Live 6 wil be in Beta. I'd wait 4 months now

Pepehouse · Post by **Pepehouse** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:44 pm

thx1138 wrote:**** sake it will be obsolite by the time its made and Live 6 wil be in Beta. I'd wait 4 months now

Rome wasn't built in a day.....

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:47 pm

Pepehouse wrote:
thx1138 wrote:**** sake it will be obsolite by the time its made and Live 6 wil be in Beta. I'd wait 4 months now
Rome wasn't built in a day.....

No but it fell in 1

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:38 pm

thx1138 wrote:**** sake it will be obsolite by the time its made and Live 6 wil be in Beta. I'd wait 4 months now

Well stop waiting and build one quicker then.

ankur · Post by **ankur** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:05 pm

jonpaul wrote:
thx1138 wrote:**** sake it will be obsolite by the time its made and Live 6 wil be in Beta. I'd wait 4 months now
Well stop waiting and build one quicker then.

WHEN ARE WE GONNA HEAR ABOUT YOUR MAVEN? I MEAN IS IT READY COZ THE POSTS HAVE STOPPED??? PLEASE SOMEONE RESPOND ON THIS!! THANKS!

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:58 pm

Just finished the CAD for top panal. We are building a mock out of perspex first to be sure we are happy with measurements. Don't wanna too small a gap between knobs for example. I will check to see if warren my mate is happy before posting as he may wanna wait till we are a bit further on with this. Sorry about the delay folks. Don't worry this is still happening. You wanna see the led buttons. They are sweeeeeeeeeeet! Overall its very similar to maven but with more freely assignable knobs, filter section and better eq with kill switches.

massiveheadpain · Post by **massiveheadpain** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:14 am

Jonpaul, are you using the midibox platform? which one are you doing? an mb64 or 64e?? as for the led buttons who makes them? MEC?

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:38 pm

Yes we are using Midibox. Midibox 64 to be precise. The buttons took me ages to track down. Buttons are available from www.rjselectronics.com. I have a part number of RJSPB61303BL-5. This changes depending on colour etc. I know there are a lot of people waiting for this but we try to work on it whenever we can whilst holding down a job, keeping relations with the missus sweet etc etc. If Warren is happy for me to post the CAD of the top sheet I will.

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:40 pm

thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing the finished thing

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:41 pm

Me too.

massiveheadpain · Post by **massiveheadpain** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:11 pm

Those are some nice switches - im getting mine from www.mec.dk and im also building a mb64. Have you decided how you going to label your front panel? If you havent already check out www.frontpanelexpress.com for doing a aluminum front panel cutout. Im getting mine done there for about 90 bucks. as for the actual front panel labeling layout, im planning on doing laser cut acrylic sheets with different colors and printouts to future proof this controller while keeping a professional look. I figured if I actually etched in my labeling, a newer version of live would probably change how I do everything and I'd be stuck with a controller that was labelled for only one way. Keep us updated im looking forward to see your design

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:37 pm

We are going for laser etched top sheet. Basically you don't have to label everything. Most of the mixer is built around what a DJ needs so we will etch accordingly. However, we have a section that you can assign freely so there is no need. We may even do it so its just a white area that you can write with non-waterproof pen like many producers do on masking tape on big desks. This may sound un-professional but we wanted there to be a section that a DJ can use as a sketch pad for ideas and functions. Take it or leave it- at least the option exists. Gonna be great. In fact currently there are 8 freely assignable knobs with closely associated buttons. We asked, what would you mostly use? We then built those functions in whilst giving you freedom to experiment with Live. It may be crap but we don't reckon:-). We are lucky cos we have such great engineering skills freely available to us.

massiveheadpain · Post by **massiveheadpain** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:21 am

are you planning on making a bunch of these? I think its a good idea to have a freely assignable section - makes the controller somewhat future proof

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:06 am

At present only for a bunch of mates who use ableton. In the spirit of midibox we all have an input. But there are bigger hopes for something else not using the midibox platform

That, however, I am not telling.

jonpaul · Post by **jonpaul** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:38 pm

OK so I know it's been ages but I have some first pics of the electronics layout under the top panal. I know we're gonna get slated for how long its taken but don't care. More pics coming soon. Have not worked out how to post images directly into forum yet so check out my My Space pics:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... 1747876296

I am building a Maven

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