@Dan

Thank you for making the requested change. This will make the selection of Track/Part voices so much easier with the control surface.

I assume this will be available in the next release of the vArranger software?

I am doing some renovations/painting in my studio, so I have paused the production of the control surface prototype until that work is finished.

I have received the cut to size pieces aluminium. In the first version I'm thinking that I'll use strips of aluminium to mount the rows of buttons. This will allow me to easily adjust the position of the buttons until I am happy with their location. I will then use the cut to size panels for the second version. I have also obtained some lit buttons for use with the second version.

How is your controll surface comming along?


I recently dived a little deeper into the Arduino


Its actually a very refreshing idea programming it yourself, with some programming experience it isnt that hard...

I have almost finished the fitout of my workshop/studio. All of the new shelving is up, but I'm having a new workbench built at the moment, so when that is done I will be in a position to do the drilling and assembly of the control surface.

I laid it out again on the full sized aluminium baseplate the other day, with a MIDI keyboard and a Microsoft Surface 4 in place. I think I'll have to stagger the Style and Voice select buttons in order to get them to fit. I will also need to get the prototype's plate cut into two in order to accommodate the drawbars on the bottom right of the plate.



I will need to ask Dan to add some additional controllers to vArranger so that the (My Sounds) Presets can be switched between Right, Right/Left and Left using buttons rather than mouse clicks.

Only 8 sliders to the right and left top? i would have added a 9th?

The top left faders are for controlling the arranger accompaniment levels (drums, perc, bass, etc) and the top right faders are for controlling the left, right and second voices. The other 4 are for the Master Volume and part Mixers.

It will have a set of 20 drawbars (9 + 9 + 2) for controlling a virtual Hammond VSTi - but I didn't lay them out for the image above because they interfere with positioning the buttons on the bottom right of the panel.

They are shown in post #423431

Thats explains my question, those 20 drawbars...

All said, the manufacturers will place the controls where they
think they should be. Lloyd

Thats the problem, everyone has different needs.... only building your own controller will fit your needs perfectly... untill your needs change...