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A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:46 am
by TrickyDan
Hey guys,
I've come across a very nice, cheap, customizable MIDI controller and it needs all the support it can get.
It's called the Chomp, its open source, and has 48 in/outs for anything you want to stick on it.
Here's the catch: it needs pledges from people to ever happen.
At the moment it's on a site called Kickstarter, where people can help others fund cool projects that need help getting off the ground.
You guys can see for yourselves, here's the link:
http://kck.st/xdnUhp

For the record, I did not make this, I'm only sharing it because I would really like it to get funded.
Anyways, what do you guys think?

PS: First post :D
Cheers!

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:04 am
by Lectric
well it looks awfully neat... but what does it do.

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:06 am
by Phigure
this looks really cool... i like it.

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:28 am
by TrickyDan
Lectric wrote:well it looks awfully neat... but what does it do.
You take the Chomp, you take any sort of input you want- can be as simple as a knob to as crazy as a touchscreen or sensor- and connect it to the Chomp.
Through that you will then be able to use that input as a Midi device, to control software and such.

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:42 am
by Lectric
So I need to own knobs and touchscreens with no other function other than to be used on the Chomp? If i hook up an iPhone does it become a touchscreen where all the buttons become assignable to parameters in my daw?

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:50 am
by TrickyDan
Lectric wrote:So I need to own knobs and touchscreens with no other function other than to be used on the Chomp? If i hook up an iPhone does it become a touchscreen where all the buttons become assignable to parameters in my daw?
Nah, you will need to buy the inputs, but they are decently cheap. All in all making a midi controller with Chomp is much less expensive than buying one.
Not to mention that you are free to build it exactly how you want it.

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:25 pm
by south3rn
does this come on a shirt?

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:37 pm
by the_disconekt
south3rn wrote:does this come on a shirt?
Yes, yes it does.

Re: A cheap, customizable MIDI controller needs your help!

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:50 pm
by Dub_freak
Seems interesting