Comments on: DIY Music Controller Designs, Drawn in Free SketchUp 3D Tool; Sharing DIY Music Models?

By: Create Digital Motion » Hands-on: Creating a 3D Model in Google SketchUp

Create Digital Motion » Hands-on: Creating a 3D Model in Google SketchUp — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:09:08 +0000

[...] the free Windows/OSX 3D drawing tool from Google. I’ve submitted models both on CDM and Kore @ CDM for anyone who might be interested. I’m enthusiastic about it because I [...]

By: Native Instruments Kore, Komplete, Reaktor @ Create Digital Music » Kore Hardware and Your Rig, with Help from SketchUp

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:28:24 +0000

[...] something that might help.Â I’ve been a fan of the free Google Sketchup since I made some attempts at a controller for Live, and recently turned to it again to help with my studio [...]

By: mjproc

mjproc — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:41:09 +0000

Why not look into http://www.ucapps.de and read abount the different traktor/ableton midi controllers… Thorsten Klose’s MidiBox is one of the best DIY midi project around…
Search the forum for ableton,,, and use your own design for the frontpanel..

I am the prowd owner of a newly built Midibox SeqV2

By: bogon_flux

bogon_flux — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:25:24 +0000

If you’re ready to script a DIY control surface why not give linux a try? I just read an entry on CDM with great content and comments. This looks like a very interesting project. I’m a computer engineering student with access to a lab and cheap PCBs, and I would love to create a hardware interface but don’t have much experience with much more than a DJ setup and analog synth. Recently I’ve been trying various audio packages in Ubuntu (using JACK in realtime mode of course) but the lack of a tactile control surface makes live performance difficult. I appreciate the stability and speed of linux enough to never deal with windows on my computers ever again, and I recommend anyone who values these characteristics to give it a try. You’ve got nothing to lose using a live CD!

By: Technology Insight » Blog Archive » DIY Music controller designs

Technology Insight » Blog Archive » DIY Music controller designs — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:46:54 +0000

[...] But more importantly, Eoin notices the general lack of DIY components in Google’s free, user-uploaded 3D Warehouse. Perhaps Makers can download the free SketchUp and start contributing some helpful parts to share for DIY hardware designs?” – Original Link. [...]

By: Rozling

Rozling — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:46:09 +0000

Yeah MIDI -> keyboard is what I was thinking, using Autohotkeys to automate a click on the various browser icons. Only I haven’t tested whether Autohotkeys will accept a keyclick from Bome or whatever the MIDI->Key application is yet…

You can find a script which will do this and a bunch of other stuff here:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42628&highlight=autohotkeys
- by now it was supposed to include all the good scripts that the Ableton forum-goers have written, but I kinda lost momentum. I can’t believe that was July!

Almost everything on this controller (and a lot more) is possible with scripting – in fact the only thing I can see being a bit of a challenge is the tempo LED as I think the tempo would have to be calculated onboard.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:12:17 +0000

I think you’d have to map MIDI to a keyboard shortcut, yes? (But it should be possible, I think.)

By: groffhibbitz

groffhibbitz — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:49:25 +0000

can you really have a button that switches between the 3 browsers in ableton? Just curious or if that was on your wish list.