Station in action

Have a look at a short performance on my selfmade MIDI controller. Like it?

28 Responses to “Station in action”


  1. 1 Floor Vahn

    Fantastic!!!!

  2. 2 gj

    of course like :) btw are those illuminated buttons commercialy available or self made?

  3. 3 Ander

    It’s all self-made. I did a lot of research on buttons, but there is nothing like that available.

  4. 4 distracted

    Amazing! Very well done! Can’t wait to see more videos.

  5. 5 23fx23

    Amazing man, best controller ever seen, well done!
    so you master leds arrays an all the stuff really cool.
    Im curious as well on how the triggers swich works,
    it’s it camera based or what is the system?

    im really interesred, i make a lot of touchscreen patchs like this or check the others,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fIG0mpVEOE

    … but yours is the first with real hardware like that, insanely cool!

  6. 6 Glen

    What software ableton? nice controller tho0

  7. 7 Ander

    @23fx23

    Its all traditional hardware, real push buttons and encoders.

    @Glen

    Yes, all the music comes from Ableton Live

  8. 8 Anselm

    I wondered how much of the computer screen you use? To me the movements of the hands showed a few “counting” movements, as if you had double check the right position from screen…

    I would love to see an introductory video cause the conclusions I can draw from the video are not explaining everything :)

    Besides that, its a really beautiful work, does not fit in every club but when it fits… I bet it rocks :)

  9. 9 Ander

    I will be posting more videos in due course, got to focus a bit more on actually making music now… As to the ‘counting’, no, the screen is not visible for me when I play. I do not need or use the screen at all, that’s what I built station for, to get rid of the monitor. BTW, the setup does not take up more space than a mixer and two turntables.

  10. 10 T-One

    awesome work, how much did you invest in this thing? i mean time + money

  11. 11 inad

    Congratulations great work! Trying to make electronic music myself with Ableton and various controllers. Your work is very inspiring (hard and software).

    Grüessli us Züri

  12. 12 Salid

    This is fantastic! I’ve seen some music producing tools, but this is awesome. Totally. If is so customizeable than it looks like, I want one. Definitly.

  13. 13 Ander

    It took me two years to develop the beast, and I stopped counting the money… Could have bought a nice holiday cruise for it, probably. First class :)

  14. 14 Ralf

    That sets new standards. I’m impressed, totally. And the colors are really nice!

    Ralf

  15. 15 Dayton

    I think i speak for many people when i say… Please either make the plans for this available so we can attempt to DIY it too!!

    Man, what a cool rig.

  16. 16 Mark Vice

    I love it!

  17. 17 Rob A

    Hey Ander, Amazing Work! This device is just tops man. What kind of buttons and rotary encoders did you use and how to they attach to the device? It almost looks like the buttons are flush with the surface, but I couldn’t get a good look. A how-to or behind the scenes would be most welcome for all of us home-builders of musical stuffs.

    Also, they’ve got your fabulous creation over on Hack-a-Day: http://hackaday.com/2010/06/12/massive-midi-station-ditches-the-monitor/

  18. 18 Al

    Any chance of letting us now how we can build one of these ourselves? It’s so awesome.

  19. 19 Ander

    I will be posting some stuff on the ucapps.de site. What I recommend: Start with a simple from-the-shelf midibox there. Then move on.

  20. 20 Bee

    Amazing!!!

  21. 21 Dan

    That is a lovely bit of kit you’ve made there and I’m digging the track as well. Keep up the good work!

  22. 22 Helmut blockheizkraftwerk

    wow! nice!!!

  23. 23 Sleep

    If you realy build this yourself it is incredible beautifull.
    Keep up the good work.

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