New FADERFOX MIDI controller system for ELEKTRON devices (12-track-design for ANALOG RYTM)

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#145

first lot is planned for august…currently I work on the last step: documentation and website

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#146

happy for those to come later :slight_smile:

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#147

is it cool to request purple buttons and led’s to replace the green ones, even though the green ones look cool already? :slight_smile:

hope all the work is going well … congrats on the magnificent concept

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#148

beautiful!

#149

I quite fancy something like the MX12 for using with the OT, but if it had rotaries instead of pots, and extra encoders on the right hand side instead of the faders it might be better suited. Or actually, four faders on the left, four on the right, and a crossfader in the middle.

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#150

FINALLY…first lots of MX12 and PC12 are available by now…you find further informations on my website
www.faderfox.de
thx for your patience

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DIY MIDI Controller for Track Volume
#151

Faderfox - Ive always admired your controllers and Im happy to see you around here. Youve made tons of great stuff over the years. Keep up the awesome work!

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#152

Going to look at your website now:)

#153

Thanks for letting us know! I’m definitely buying this combo - do you have a graphic/pdf that shows the basic Rytm functionality in your midi config?

#154

These look absolutely superb. Screw the MKIIs. Haha!

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#155

The PC12… To control omnisphere??
I’m quietly giggling here right now.

#156

I think I would prefer led rotary knobs…
Never really understand these kinds of knobs and sliders
Especially for elektron
When playing, the values will not match the knob settings of the midi controller…

Or do I miss something? (I hope so)

#157

led rotaries make sense when you get complete feedback data from the elektrons but this works currently only with octatrack afaik

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Analog keys external knobby box
#158

MX12 settings in setup 21 (ELEKTRON RYTM setups):
controls have same CC numbers in same row but different midi channels for each column.

pots:

  • row A: CC082 delay
  • row B: CC083 reverb

buttons:

  • row C (gray): CC093 (toggle mode) track solo
  • row D (green): CC094 (toggle mode) track mute

fader:

  • CC007 volume

encoder :

  • encoder: CC025 reverb decay / channel 13

PC12 settings in setups 21 and [22] (ELEKTRON RYTM setups):
controls have same CC numbers in same row but different midi channels for each column.
(setup 22 as RYTM extension for MX12.)

pots:

  • row A: CC074 cutoff [CC074 cutoff]
  • row B: CC081 overdrive [CC075 resonance]
  • row C: CC082 delay [CC081 overdrive]
  • row D: CC083 reverb [CC080 decay]
  • row E: CC010 pan [CC031 sample volume]
  • row F: CC007 volume [CC016 synth volume]

buttons:

  • row G (green): CC094 (toggle mode) track mute [CC092 scene / all buttons channel 01]

encoder:

  • encoder: CC025 reverb decay / channel 13 [CC081 makeup gain / channel 13]
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#159

Thank you

#160

Thinking right now that such controller would be really great to control a 6 operators FM synth :slight_smile:
Does your controller send SYSEX ?
E.g. to control Volca FM finer controls, you have to send SYSEX. Wonder how configurable is the PC12, or if I’ll need some translation between PC12 CC sends and Volca sysex input…

#161

You’ll be wanting one of these for that:

http://dtronics.nl/pages/dt7.html

:slight_smile:

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#162

Ahem, thx for the link, but nope, I won’t :cold_sweat:

#163

how about one of these?

#164

Picked up PC12 and MX12 at post office in the morning, can’t wait to hook them to OT :heart_eyes: I guess it will need manual (or MIDI learn) CC setup.
Not sure yet which 8 parameters will be the most interesting to have at hand per track. Any suggestions? I’m thinking 2 knobs for filter tweaking, 2-3 for delay, rest for either LFO’s or whatever FX is on the track. Green buttons on PC12 could be either ‘select track’ or ‘rec arm’ (for live sampling) … have to experiment here. Grey and green buttons on MX12 will be ‘mute’ and ‘solo’ switches. I also don’t know what to do with tracks 9-12. Either I map LXR parameters there or additional FX params of master track or selected tracks.

Edit: I just got another twisted idea about mapping for OT. Faders 1-8 would work as expected as track volumes. Fader 9 as Crossfader, faders 10-12 tbd. BUT … 8 rows of knobs, if assigned horizontally to tracks would give 12 parameters per track … little non-ergonomic but my projects usually use track 7 as live sampling track for transition trick and track 8 is master track. These two would nicely stay on MX12 and PC12 would serve tracks 1-6. Vertical divider lines will help with orientation in mapped parameters. Let’s see what comes out better.

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