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Hacking or Recycling your midi controller?

Zoopy
IsraTrance Junior Member

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Posted : Aug 29, 2008 00:06:38

My oxygen8 finally crapped out and sends random midi messages sporadically. Which can get kind of frustrating when you are trying to play perform something or produce music... so I was wondering if anyone had any good links to some information on delving inside the guts of the midi controller. Maybe taking parts from my oxygen and somehow DIY-mutating it into a frankenstein-midi controller? or just some software to see which parameter is sending messages, I know it's one of the knobs.. could I disable one of them?

thanks.

edit:

this doesn't really answer my question but it's still neat and KIND of in the same vein:

http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/08/09/moldover-shows-us-how-to-mod-an-oxygen-8/

Medea
Aedem/Medea

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Posted : Aug 29, 2008 10:05

I have had similar problems with my old Fatar midi keyboard. The modulation wheen started to send random messages, like it's slightly trmblin. I simply opened the keyboard and disconnected the mod-wheel, the same you can do when you locate the problematic knob.
To locate it you can use something like that - http://www.freewebs.com/wallyaudio/VST-MIDI%20Monitor.htm or http://obds.free.fr/midimon/

good luck

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Kane
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Posted : Sep 13, 2008 06:17

I'm in the process of modding an old O2 controller and a Presonus Firebox to make a midi mixer/audio interface console to play live with..I'll probably write an article about it with some pics and instruction soon.

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psyaudionamics
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Posted : Sep 13, 2008 10:34

sounds fuckn radikal kane, u do mods and stuff?

Domi
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Posted : Sep 15, 2008 16:14

my oxygen 8 doesnt work in cubase anymore...in other platforms yes..cant get it work in sx3..wtf?..

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Kane
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Posted : Sep 17, 2008 01:22

Quote:

On 2008-09-13 10:34, psyaudionamics wrote:
sounds fuckn radikal kane, u do mods and stuff?

To some extent..

Pics coming soon of the stuffed monkey bass exciter

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Kane
IsraTrance Junior Member

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Posted : Sep 17, 2008 01:24

Quote:

On 2008-09-15 16:14, Domi wrote:
my oxygen 8 doesnt work in cubase anymore...in other platforms yes..cant get it work in sx3..wtf?..

Have the latest drivers? If you're using Vista, they have the 32 bit drivers up now.

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