rack mount midi controllers?

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:16 pm

Anyone know of a 1 u rack mountable set of midi encoders? Is this something I am going to have to build? Seems so obvious but I don't know of one.

Thanks for any leeds.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:25 pm

1 rack space sounds too minimal for a company to even bother producing. However, the killamix controllers look like they could fit in a single rack space. Maybe get one of those and then customer make some kind of bracket.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:37 pm

there is one made by a german company... i can't remember the name of it though!! i'm pretty sure it has 10 knobs with an LED for each knob and is designed as a rackmount unit... i'm certain i read about it here in the forums too - if i figure it out i'll post it here for you.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:26 pm

http://www.pcdj.com/products/hardware/dac-3/

This one is a 3 space USB 2.0 midi controller that was designed to look like a dual CD player.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:39 pm

just out of curiosity, how much would you be willing to pay for, say, a row of 8 encoders and some bank switches in a 1-unit rack?

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 am

Machinate wrote:just out of curiosity, how much would you be willing to pay for, say, a row of 8 encoders and some bank switches in a 1-unit rack?

As little as I could get away with.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:16 am

Mike Goodwin wrote:
Machinate wrote:just out of curiosity, how much would you be willing to pay for, say, a row of 8 encoders and some bank switches in a 1-unit rack?

As little as I could get away with.

hehe, spoken like a true politician - nice spin!
Seriously though?

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:30 am

this ones rackmount as well..
http://www.lividinstruments.com/hardware_ohm.php
still can't remember the other one i mentioned... DOH!!

is there anything stopping you getting out a drill and putting rackmounts on whatever you want (apart from maybe the size of these things...)?

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:31 am

Clearscreen wrote:this ones rackmount as well..
http://www.lividinstruments.com/hardware_ohm.php
still can't remember the other one i mentioned... DOH!!

is there anything stopping you getting out a drill and putting rackmounts on whatever you want (apart from maybe the size of these things...)?

I need it to fit into a 1U space in a rack for my live rig. I was using larger midi controllers but I have decided to hardwire a analog mixer into my case to replace the encoders. I am using a 6 space desktop road case with a touch screen built right into the lid and a 5 space analog mixer I want to use the last space for the remaining 12 midi pots that I need. That would make my day. It can't be more than one space. The kenton one is nice but not enough knobs and way fancier than I need.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:22 am

i reckon you might have to build somethin to fit that bill... 12 encoders, rack mountable and 1U space

i'd recommend using an arduino to build from at the moment (as it's cheap and i know how to use one... other midi stuff dunno about), but you'd need to convert the input to midi using processing or something...

Sumatra · Post by **Sumatra** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:55 am

Buy a Doepfer Pocket Electronics and make one yourself. Shouldn't be hard at all.

Better yet, use the Dial Electronics and have rotary encoders.

http://www.analoguehaven.com/doepfer/oemdiy/

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:21 pm

I managed to build one out of a Evolution XS midi controller

Twelve pots and ten buttons in a 1U rack and it is working great! The case was from another piece of gear that I just butchered. Now that I see how it all works I will most likely buy a new case and pimp it out bit with some lights and so on.

Here is my Live Control project. Touch screen in the lid running Reaktor

Xsession by evolution is pretty easy to hack. Good for home made projects.

EDIT: I dont know why my picture links are not working hmmmmmm. copy and paste if you want to see it I guess.

Peace

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:36 pm

I think they don't show up because they are just url's, not .jpg files (I guess would still qualify as a url, but I mean the actual file, not the web page which it is displayed on..)

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:41 pm

yep, put in "www." in front of virb.com and you should be good to go.
Nice work and that, Mike! Looks the business!

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:24 pm

Clearscreen wrote:there is one made by a german company... i can't remember the name of it though!! i'm pretty sure it has 10 knobs with an LED for each knob and is designed as a rackmount unit... i'm certain i read about it here in the forums too - if i figure it out i'll post it here for you.

I remember it from few months back , event wanted to buy it but missed the end of the auction on Ebay, went for around 100 original price is over 300 I think.
I remember that it has some advance function, only problem...what was the name ???
Ok found it
http://www.thomann.de/es/ibk_midi_10con ... f9f4301012

even some description
http://www.synthforum.nl/forums/archive ... -2726.html