Hello there…
I have a zynthian on the make…
It will take time before it’s finished, ok…
I would like to make it a combo synth, not just an expander…
That’s, more or less, what it would probably, and approximately,look like… It’s still a wish, not sure if I’ll get to the term…
4 options for the shape of the main box, I will chose in terms of cost and of easily-made/not-easily-made…
The reason why I put those encoders in this position is, cause it looks nice, ok, but also because most of the editing will probably be done with the same hand, the left one, and I wouldn’t want this hand to hide the screen, totallly or partly…
Cheeks might be made with thick metal, aluminium probably, or thick wood…
So here are a few questions.
Question 1) Will it be possible to change the colours of the virtual knobs on the screen ?? One by one ?? Or all of them at once if it’s a comon parameter ?? If yes, how will I do ??
(When you answer, don’t hesitate to talk to me as an ignorant, cause in terms of Raspberry PI, and of programming, you can consider me as such… So, when you talk basic, that will be fine with me… I will not feel offended.)
Question 2) : I just bought an adafruit 2.8" touch-screen… What are the optimum dimensions for the hole in the front cover of my build ?? I wouldn’t want to be forced to hammer it into its place, nor the hear it break because dilatation would have squeezed it…But also, I wouldn’t want a 1 mm gap all around it, for fleas to find their way into the box…
Question 3) I own a very good Kimber-Allen 3 octave kboard, never mounted, with 2 contacts per key, that I bought when I was 20… (Don’t ask me when it was, please, you wouldn’t want to be rude, would you ??)
That’s the one I want to use, of course… Sure, I could still try to find a broken, or damaged, or cheap, master kboard, even a 4 octaves, and hack it to use this kboard which I feel sentimentaly linked to…
I suppose it would not be wise to ask the raspberry PI to be the kboard scanner, as it would take so many pins on the GPIO, and would also probably slow everything…So i won’t ask you if you know how to convert the PI into a MIDI kboard… It will be wiser to build a MIDI (in fact, thru USB) kboard and use one of the numerous USB inputs of the Zynthian…
So the question is : does anyone know how I could build a MIDI Kboard, 3 octaves, octave transpose buttons, with pitch bend, modulation wheel, and a 3rd control that I would love to plug my Breath Contorller ??
I"ve been searching trhoughout the web, but I only find people saying they will do, or they are doing, or they have done, but never clearly saying how I can do it too…
And I don’t want to spend millions into a Dopffler or whatever is its name…
Have a nice time, guys and gals, and enjoy the sun…
Thierry
I used the MB NG for 3 projects, two of it were Midi controllers with buttons, LEDs and faders. One was using it as a keyboard interface for a custom made isomorphic keyboard. As a prototype, it still has some mechanical issues, but on the controller and software side it works perfectly. Hardware components, MB parts: 1 CORE_STM32F4, 1 DIO_MATRIX, 1 MIDI_IO. I’ve also embedded an old Yamaha_DB50XG daughterboard as a sound engine, controlled with the same MB NG core, all works fine.