Hi!
XP5 is a midicontroller with built in audio interface by a company named Eks. It's bigger brother is propably known to you all -Otus. But anyway, this post is about XP5's. Here's a picture:
So I've bought two used Eks XP5 midi controllers pretty cheap (130€), but i'm not completely satisfied with them. They have a great responsive jogwheel, but it's way too small and the buttons are way too stiff. One day i opened one of the XP5's and realised that they're pretty simple inside. There are little switches for midi buttons so i was thinking could i replace the original shitty buttons with arcade buttons. So now i'm asking is it a hard job to rewire the new buttons? Of course the arcade buttons wouldn't fit the original plastic case, so i would have to build a new one. In that case it would be stupid not to mod the jog wheels also. I was inspired by DJ dAb's (?) vinyl CDR XP10's so i was thinking about modding them to the next level with 7" vinyl records. I'm alright with soldering, but nothing special, but because of my work i have access to a lot of handy tools.
There's a lot of options for the new layout, because one XP5 has 22 buttons, 1 fader and a jogwheel. I was thinking about building a layout that would have 4 buttons under the platter and 4 over, so it could be used what ever way around.
What do you guys think?
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