New subject: is there a controller like this?

28 Jul 2009

Andy,

If you don't need the keyboard then I'd also recommend a Behringger BFC2000,
which has 8 motorized faders and 8 encoders and is well supprted under
linux. It's also fairly cheap considering the featureset. I'm pretty sure
there are a number of users in this list.

-michael

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM, andy baxter <
andy(a)earthsong.free-online.co.uk&gt; wrote:

...
  Hi michael,

 Thanks for the info about the remote25. It looks good (just skimming
 through the review in 'sound on sound'), but I don't really want to get
 another device with a keyboard when I've just bought one.

 What I really want is a 'bare bones' device with just some encoders,
 buttons, and an lcd screen. An x-y pad would be nice as well but not
 essential.

 andy

 michael noble wrote:

  Hi Andy,

 I'm not sure exactly if it is what you need, but I would have thought that
 any class compliant midi controller with encoders and some facility for
 controller banks will serve your purpose. The novation remote25 which I have
 has 8 encoders, 8 knobs, 8 sliders, an x/y pad, joystick and 16 buttons,
 plus instant recall of any of 64 stored presets of controller mapping. To be
 honest that's all overkill for me as the only thing I use beside the
 keyboard are the encoders and the banks, but it serves its purpose. Editing
 the controllers is not as direct as you seem to wish for, but setting up a
 new controller with the editing mode takes about 15 seconds and I've done so
 in live situations when needed. To my knowledge many midi controllers offer
 similar capabilities.

 As for displaying the current level of a synth or software based parameter
 on the controller lcd, that all depends mostly on whether the software
 implements midi feedback or not. Without knowing your specific software its
 difficult to say what the status of support is.

 -michael n

 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, andy baxter <
 andy(a)earthsong.free-online.co.uk <mailto:andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk>>
 wrote:

    Hello,

    I have just bought a second hand keyboard, (edirol PCR-500) which has
    loads of knobs and sliders on it. The trouble is that all the
    knobs are
    pots, not rotary encoders; encoders would be much more useful I think
    because it would mean that if you press a button to switch to a new
    synth or effects patch, the correct defaults for it could be
    automatically loaded to each of the knobs when you switch. Without
    that,
    it seems like whenever you switch to a new instrument you would
    have to
    spend a while tweaking all the knobs to get the right basic sound.

    What I would like is a device with a couple of rotary encoders on it
    (you only have two hands), maybe 16 buttons, and a character LCD
    screen.

    The way it would work is (something-like):

    - one of the buttons would be for loading new instruments. To
    switch to
    a new instrument, you would press the button and then turn either
    encoder. The LCD would show which instrument you were choosing from a
    list, and you would press the button again to make the switch.
    - most of the buttons would be for accessing different midi controls.
    You could assign a midi control to an encoder by pressing the
    button for
    that control first, then pressing a button underneath the encoder you
    were assigning.
    - having done this, that encoder would be bound to that midi control -
    turning it would send out midi messages for that control, and also
    update a display on the LCD saying what the level of that control is
    currently set at.
    - loading a new instrument would automatically set the right default
    levels for each controller that that instrument used.

    Does anyone know of anything like this that's already being made?
    If so
    I might get hold of one and see if I can hack it to work with
    linux; if
    not I'm thinking of having a go at making my own some time.

    cheers,

    andy baxter.
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