Comments on: DIY ‘midi’ footpedal

By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:59:46 +0000

Or try thie:
http://www.cycling74.com/story/2007/10/16/1252/3782

By: juancho

juancho — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:53:43 +0000

Que ladron!!! jajaja… eso no es DIY. LADRON! ensima re gato.-

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:35:48 +0000

Very nice forrest, just what I’m trying to get together. But why the strange layout instead of trad pedalboard design?

By: Computer_Kid

Computer_Kid — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:43:44 +0000

Something useful on MySpace!?

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:09:44 +0000

That is some really nice work!
The soldering and cable routing is all done very neatly considering the amount of cables to keep straight. (literally and figuratively)

Very nice use of some off the shelf components too.

I for one love a good Rad Shmack road trip myself as well.
I recently went on a quest to snatch up some of those wireless temp/hygro modules and realized that these days are coming to an end as Rad Shmack gets away from some of the old school coolness.

Kudos on the cool build!

By: Forrest Harding

Forrest Harding — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:26:45 +0000

Son of a beehive… I almost kicked myself when I saw that Behringer FCB1010. I didn’t even know about it for $*#^%( sake! After searching the internet for hours, too… lol. Luckily, it only has ten pedals, an up/down, and two expression pedals: not enough to cover a full octave range (unless I bought two… :). So I guess I’m still happy with this project. *phew* that was close…
-Forrest

By: Jason Rollette

Jason Rollette — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:18:20 +0000

I just wanted to put an all through hole avr programmer out there that could be used as a development board also. I think we will be seeing some of these design entries show up in bigger projects…

So don’t eat crow on my account!
Jason Rollete

By: mungewell

mungewell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:23:00 +0000

and you’d have an interesting stand alone solution.

ha ha… great punn ;-)

By: wolf

wolf — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:04:53 +0000

It appears to me as if the design chalenge entry has the footprint of a serial port to the right of the parallel one, I wonder if it may work with serial as well…

By: MRE

MRE — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:29:21 +0000

so… you have no need of playing chords? (not that a chord made up of more than two notes is possible, unless you have three feet! ;)

By: Forrest Harding

Forrest Harding — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:59:49 +0000

Yeah, I know that using an old music keyboard would have made things more efficient because it wouldn't need a laptop, but I left the only old music keyboard I had in Milwaukee by accident when I moved :) I just happened to have a few QWERTY keyboards and an old laptop laying around. I got my inspiration for this project from a guy who actually used that method (the midi keyboard):
http://www.virtualorgan.com/Default.asp?page=14
-Forrest

By: GUF

GUF — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:26:25 +0000

Although this is pretty impressive (I guess), I can’t help but wonder why the guy didn’t get the Behringer footpedal that’s like 1/5 of the cost of the Roland – it’s gotta be better than driving to 6 radio shack’s in the ghetto

By: th0mas

th0mas — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:37:03 +0000

Or you could build a custom midibox based application - http://www.ucapps.de (obligatory ;) ).

Or something using my up and coming AVR dev board! :D

By: TJhooker

TJhooker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:06:45 +0000

“Ewwwwwww myspace!”

By: Will O\\\\\\\'Brien

Will O\\\\\\\'Brien — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:39:13 +0000

nathan – ‘drum controller’ was eaten by a grue on the internet, apparently. it should make sense now. The suggestion of gutting an older synth is an idea – but quite a few of the older synth’s are nicer than the current lot.