Originally Posted by
mostapha
Useful controls.
Hunh?
No. There's way too much going on. Do you really use all that stuff now, and if not do you really think that your controller is the reason?
Traktor has a lot of features so that it can appeal to a lot of different performance styles…not so you can cram all of them into a set.
The reason I corrected your "naming" of that device as a mixer is because without knowing that extremely obvious distinction, I don't think you're going to be able to pull it off. It takes a decent bit of learning and dedication to build a controller if you start off not knowing how to do it…and if you're speaking that imprecisely, you probably have no clue how to do it. First step…which control board do you buy? Do you know what a multiplexor is, 'cuz you'll need a few. Do you know where/how to get boards etched, or are you planning on point-to-point wiring the whole thing? (hint…no, you're not)
If I were you, I'd think very seriously about what you want, why you want it, and how much you're really willing to put into building that thing before you spend a lot of money on components that you'll likely ruin with a soldering iron and/or throw out after a couple weeks/months of frustration.
It's all well and good to draw up things like that in ms paint, but it's another thing completely to design the circuitry and wind up with something that actually works.
If you do want to do it, there are companies around that will build custom controllers for you…but I'd expect the price to be in the ballpark of 2 grand. And I just don't see it being worth that compared to all the alternatives that come with nice things like drivers and warranties for reasonable prices, just to give marginally more control than a few hundred in off-the-shelf midi controllers.
I wasn't just trying to be a dick.
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