What is the best MIDI controller to control the 16 track levels live on the DT2?

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What is the best MIDI controller to control the 16 track levels live on the DT2?

The Faderfox UC44 is discontinued and I can’t find it used.

Is the UC4 the next best thing?

What are the other options except for a Faderfox custom build?

Thanks.

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I only have a UC4 because someone here bought one after waiting for a long time for a used UC44 to pop up, and then a few weeks later, one did, so they sold off the UC4 at a really good price.

So I suggest you get a UC4. If that doesn’t miraculously cause a used UC44 to appear on the market, you can control 16 track levels with the UC4, though it will be half faders and half encoders, and that might bother some people.

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Thanks,

Miracles may happen :grimacing:

So you can have 8 faders at a time with the UC4, but can you have multiple pages, so I could have the first 8 faders on one page and the next 8 faders on the next page?

Otherwise you can set it up so you have 8 faders and 8 pots all on one page to control all 16 tracks?

Is it easy to set up?

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Yes - this is called ‘groups’ on the UC4 and it’s quick to switch between them. See:

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Didn’t this guy move in with Chandler from Friends 25 years ago when Joey moved out? :upside_down_face:

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This is really cool. It may work well until I can find a 44. I wonder if you can configure the crossfader to control global tempo?

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Faderfox EC4 is good, 16 encoders (one for each track) and a small OLED, no faders tho.

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I’ve actually not taken it off factory settings. I haven’t used it much, and when I have, I could configure the receiver. The manual is a bit terse, but the video posted above seems helpful. I have an M8 coming, and expect to use the UC4 with it a fair bit.

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I was looking for such midi controller. The solution is to combine 2 UC4. You can merge them and assign track 1 to 16 - confirmed by faderfox

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Michigan synth works XVI-M has 16 programmable faders, 16 programmable buttons, 14 bit resolution. Looks gorgeous and is only about $250 USD brand new, you could likely afford whatever import fees you pay at that price (or find a used one).

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This looks lovely. I’ll look it up. Thanks

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That could work

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I am going to build my own custom midi controller for it using an opendeck board

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Sounds great… I’m not that clever :grimacing:

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Anyone have one of these and can comment on build quality etc?

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I know I have said some unkind things about my akai mpk mini plus before but it has 8 pads and 8 rotary controllers for 130 quid! Oh…and 37 keys :grinning:

Just don’t expect to get any mileage out of the sequencer. It’s rubbish…ha ha I couldn’t help myself.

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I don’t, however you can find lots of accounts online of the high quality work MSW does. He uses very solid enclosures and good quality components. Very small operation, like big enough to go to superbooth but small enough to be doing his own builds.

I never noticed this previously but the fader caps have inbuilt LED indicators, how class is that?

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Hold on, I already have an Arturia Minilab 3 with 4 faders and 8 pots (and 8 pads) and an Akai MPD218 with 16 pads and 3 banks of 6 pots.

Would they work well with the DT2?

I know the DT2 doesn’t work as a USB host, so I guess would have to be over MIDI.

How would set this up properly and what else would I need?

Does the Minilab 3 have banks so that you can just change bank to control different functions?

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Ah hold on. Just realised to control the internal mixer page you need to be able to set each knob to a different midi channel which probably rules out a lot of hardware.

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Here is an Elektronaut rocking three UC4s.

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