For a long time I've been building controllers of all shapes and sizes. Monomes, Arduinomes, Stribes. for use with custom apps, but even now I am caving in and starting to look at Ableton for simplifying and streamlining my live work
My latest controller was to be a general purpose 16-channel mixer style with buttons, sliders and knobs (initially with a view to control a 16-channel head mounted EEG reader, but also to use with my life performance set), I also wanted an LCD screen (having built a 2-line LCD into my Arduinome a while back -- a nice idea but it proved a little limiting).
I was going to go the ucapps MidiBox route until I saw the Livid website and thought the brain and the modular approach was elegant so I thought I'd take a look at what I could make with it.
This is my final design:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanais/4435090062/
16 channels with 7 levels of control for each channel. 7" LCD Screen
This busts the maximum allowed control space for the Livid Brain and for the central crossfaders I am additionally using a Hale Micro UMC 32 board to provide the last remaining sliders which will provide control for global effects and so on -- this operates with the BYOB Turn and Slide boards but is not part of the Brain but can operate alongside quite happily. The remaining unused inputs on the Hale Micro board can be forked off to an external connector for sensors and external inputs from accelerometers and so on...
My latest controller was to be a general purpose 16-channel mixer style with buttons, sliders and knobs (initially with a view to control a 16-channel head mounted EEG reader, but also to use with my life performance set), I also wanted an LCD screen (having built a 2-line LCD into my Arduinome a while back -- a nice idea but it proved a little limiting).
I was going to go the ucapps MidiBox route until I saw the Livid website and thought the brain and the modular approach was elegant so I thought I'd take a look at what I could make with it.
This is my final design:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanais/4435090062/
16 channels with 7 levels of control for each channel. 7" LCD Screen
This busts the maximum allowed control space for the Livid Brain and for the central crossfaders I am additionally using a Hale Micro UMC 32 board to provide the last remaining sliders which will provide control for global effects and so on -- this operates with the BYOB Turn and Slide boards but is not part of the Brain but can operate alongside quite happily. The remaining unused inputs on the Hale Micro board can be forked off to an external connector for sensors and external inputs from accelerometers and so on...