MIDI Mixer One

General
#1

Inspired by all the minimal MIDI controllers being built here I decided to build something a bit less minimal for my own setup. I wanted to have a mixer / Ableton Live controller with no scene switching and a nice solid feel. Also, it was fun to make :slight_smile:

Details and source on GitHub

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Huge thanks to @tehn for sharing the Four-N design and @infovore for helping out with advice and suggestions.

I’m building up a few more of these, let me know if you’re interested. I’d also love to hear if people have suggestions for places to manufacture a full metal enclosure which could be a nice enhancement (but likely expensive!)

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#2

20 characters of PM’ing

#3

this looks like a very decent device

#4

This is very cool! how exactly are you using it? I see the labels on the bottom of it, you have it connected to your bugbrand and serge somehow thru ableton

#5

your post is missing the nsfw tag. that is one beautiful piece of machinery. dare i ask what kind of switches are on the keys?

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#6

Thanks all!

I’m using it in a classic mixer setup with Ableton – 8 channels of level, pan, EQ and sends plus some transport controls etc on the keys.

Cherry MX switches. I have clears on this one but might do black on future builds. :slight_smile:

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#7

20 chars of cheery’s ftw

#8

Thanks for the reply! :slight_smile:

#9

Just got mine!!

@markeats did a super job on this and was so kind and patient while i slowwwwly made my selections for the colorway

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#10

Beautiful!
I still need to order the parts for mine :sweat:

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#11

Love the OP1 color scheme.

#12

v2.0.0 firmware is up now! Adds the ability to use a new web config tool to set MIDI channels, CCs, etc.

Details on the wiki page.

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#13

Nice! I still need to finish putting mine together :sob:

I was wondering, how hard would it be to add a midi trs out to the existing board?

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#14

You could maybe build a little extension board and wire it in to the Teensy. Not something I’ve tried myself though.

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#15

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at long last… I’m almost finished with my midi mixer one.
Just waiting for the faceplate to finish being cut and I still need to find some keycaps.

thanks @markeats

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#16

Wow these look great and super handy, worth filing away for a possible future build :face_with_monocle:

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#17

nice work on the config tool!

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#18

thanks so much for building this web config tool.
i was just trying to set up my Mixer One to send CCs on different channels:
knob 1 - 5 = channel 1
knob 6-10 = channel 2
etc.

but after updating it looks like they are still sending on channel 16?
i set global to “none”

#19

Sounds right. When you disconnect/reconnect the controller, reload the config tool and request the settings back do they look correct still or are they not actually getting saved?

#20

requested settings show the correct midi channels, but mapping in software shows they are all still sending on the same channel.