Quoth Ken Restivo at 2008-11-28 08:32...
It's so simple to make one with an Arduino, and a
lot of code for surfaces that others have made is open source.
That could certainly be done - if you only wanted an 8-knob surface, the
ADC is already on-chip. I briefly toyed with the idea of using an
AT90S8535 (or the ATMEGA version), using the onboard ADC, but decided
that I wanted more knobs, so went for the external ADC.
But yes, for the Arduino, just add pots and MIDI interface.
Not sure what the performance of a device like this would be though,
when you have an extra level of language involved. Personally, I like
to stick to C when dealing with microcontrollers (and for the real
masochists, there's always assembly ;-))
Cheers
M
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