Lord Toranaga wrote:with all that room, why did you put the knobs & sliders so close together?
all that room????? you gotta be joking you have no idea on the size of the boards inside , the cable runs etc.
the 4x4 pads need a support plate behind them and behind that is the fsr link board that then connects to the 4x4 sensitivity pot matrix board before going into 1 of 3 digital input boards. then you have the main board which is a triple layer board ( 3 seperate circuitboards stacked on top of each other)
it too a while to find the faders in that particular size, to get this thing built in the footprint i have got it in took several revisions of casework in solidworks.
one other thing to bear in mind, nothing is surfacemount at all, its good old fashioned through hole electronics. this is built like a tank and im happy.
its not possible to get it any smaller, the spacing is down to component placing, size and front panel spacing of external components. it has been optomised for maximum user control. the botom 4 sliders have the lower two knobs close to them, however they do not interfere with each other.
this is the first build and since getting it to this stage i have made some revisions to the design for the next build, the lower section will be given a bit more length in the case allowing for some more spacing and also for extra controls.
in use though its amazing, every single thing is assignable to anything you want, from cc# to notes, sysex strings, mmc commands, meta events, using the in built edit system you can change anything and store it internally, it will also midi learn anything you send to it either via midi 5 pin or usb midi.
and as this is the only one there is, i think i can live with it