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MORTRIX MIDI foot controller

#102
Quatschmacher said:
We do, but it doesn’t make sense to publish it if we end up being able to get it much lower. My colleague has been crunching the numbers and should have something firm soon. (Stuff is much more complex since stupid Brexit.) Pretty sure he’ll have a firm figure by the show on the 8th. Patience, my friend.
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All good - I just find myself in need of a midi controller pedal recently and it's hard to know what's what in this space.
 
#104
Adamixoye said:
My mistake if I misunderstood your relationship with the company and your degree of input on it.
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No, you were correct, I have no input into the price. I just did work on features development and bug testing, the head guy has done all the hardware sourcing and software coding. Only he knows all the cost details. That said, I’d have thought it pretty obvious that $100 is a pipe dream.
 
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#111
Quatschmacher said:
From discussions on here and other places, you may recall that I’ve been collaborating on a MIDI controller for the last couple of years. We’ve now just launched the website and will exhibit at Synthfest UK next month.

Please take a look.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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Awesome!!!!!! I want one. This is what I need to make midi useful for me
 
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#114
Adamixoye said:
Based on similar products I would have to think, of the options you listed, it would be somewhere between $500 and $1000. $100 is way too cheap, anything with a screen like this is going to be several $100s at a minimum IMO. But over $1k would be getting up there with more expensive actual FX units like more expensive Line6 units or the Quad Cortex. Not impossible, I just think it would be quite market limited at that point.
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Quatschmacher said:
price is £500+taxes.
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I get a free unit for my correct prediction, right?

(Joke unless you don't want it to be.)
 
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#116
Gsnorgathon said:
Glad you had a successful day! In addition to "how much?" do we know yet "when?" and "from whom?" I checked a few of the usual suspects (Anderton's, Juno, Elevator, Rubadub) without success. Nothing on the MIDIum web site yet.
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Available hopefully quarter 1 of 2023. Buying is direct from Midium. Sign up to the mailing list via the website to get preorder info when it is ready.
 
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#119
Finally got around to getting a whammy-type thing going on the C4. It’s not as straightforward as it could have been but with some cool Link Removed features, I managed it.

C4 Dry Whammy

C4 Whammy


TL DR - Midium is really powerful.

Ordinarily this kind of thing is not a big deal to do, however Source Audio pitch control via MIDI is a little cumbersome. There’s no global pitch control. They have used one CC per voice to handle octave switching and another CC per voice to handle semitone offsets. Frustratingly, they’ve only put +/-11 semitones rather than 12.

With any other controller it’s just not possible to overcome this problem to get a full 12-semitone sweep on the C4. However, using a couple of features which I thought up and which Morten implemented, Midium manages this with not too much programming.

The truncated range feature allows you to have only a fixed portion of the expression pedal’s travel actively send out messages. It also allows you to set the minimum and maximum values that will be sent out over that portion of travel. So I set the 11 semitone transposition CC across 92% of the pedal range. (This was because dividing 100% travel by 12 semitones is around 8% travel per semitone).

To get the last semitone step, I needed to use a combination of quickly resetting the semitone offset CC back to zero whilst simultaneously sending the pitch up an octave with the octave offset CC. For this I assigned positional trigger messages in the last 8% of the pedal travel.

Positional triggers not only allow you to specify a point of the pedal travel, upon reaching which a message is sent out, they can be set to trigger based on what direction the pedal was travelling when that point was reached!

This allowed me to transpose up when the pedal was moving towards maximum and transpose down when the pedal was moving towards minimum.

To achieve the 2-octave sweep, I set two expression messages to sweep the semitones, one over 0-50% of the travel, one over 51-100%. I then placed direction-sensitive positional triggers to apply the semitone reset and octave jumps at 50% and 100%.

Pretty cool all in all.
 
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#120
We hit a bit of a snag as we found out that someone had trademarked a name very close to ours. Annoyingly it was trademarked five months after I came up with the Midium name. So we’re now in the process of renaming the controller. We’ve got some ideas but are open to suggestions. You’d have to agree to handing over all rights to the name. If your suggestion is the one used, you’ll receive a free unit when it’s ready.
 
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