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Sick of wrangling cables? Build a controller board for a few dollars.
I was getting annoyed at having to grab all of my controllers, USB-C hub, connect everything together, and run power anytime I wanted to play so I built a fast & simple board to hold my controllers and iPad stand.
I cannot overstate how absolutely cheap this project is and how big of a change it made for me. I used paint stirring sticks I had leftover from a project. Under $5 in parts, wood glue to stick it together, a ruler, pencil, and a <$20 Japanese pull saw (any saw will do). Controllers and iPad stand are held down with adhesive-backed Velcro. I splurged $10 on some shorter USB cables, too.
It's so much faster to grab this and start playing. I built it in under an hour with almost no cost. If you also hate having to set everything up every time then maybe set some time aside and do a fun DIY project this weekend?
If you have no desire to DIY then check out serving/dining trays at local department stores or IKEA. Get some adhesive-backed Velcro and you will have a controller/pedal/whatever board.
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This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing
This is very similar to my studio the past few years, except the base of mine is a TV dinner tray. Yours looks more lightweight than mine though...looks great!
Nicely done!
I go the other way pine shelving units, both excellent for threading cables and ventilation too, downside is small dongles and so on can fall through but this I correct as needed with solid pine as needed, pine is easily worked for customisation.
After playing around on that (hastily-built) tray for a month I took notes and decided to build an improved setup. I splurged and only used the ¼" thick wood, rounded the edges, and finished it with many coats of oil-based poly finish.
I picked up Loopy Pro after using it a bunch during the 7-day trial and got the M-Wave Chocolate BT pedal to do transport controls in it. Been jamming with my brother, mostly doom/metal stuff which is a huge departure from my usual sample/beats, and it's been fun using toms and ride cymbals regularly. The SSL2+ has been great as we're headphones only: he has a guitar + laptop w/Amplitube running into my interface.
Everything is sized to fit into an SKB 2011-7 case (roughly Pelican 1510 sized). The expression pedal portion of the pedal board can reattach in either orientation (toes in-line with board, heel in-line with board, and expression left or right of BT pedal) via velcro. Will continue tinkering, planning on putting something next to the SSL2+ to hold my headphones, either a folding headphones hook or a bowl to place them in and also hold my IEMs.
This is genius…. Nice set-up
I love pre-wired set ups like this, looks good!
Very nice DIY work. I would like to ear your Doom metal. I am a big fan myself. Are you mixing electronic elements into your Doom ?
Please tell me you have a YouTube channel and a video of how you hook all this up, and how you use it! I am so intrigued!
I travel for work and cart around an iPad Pro 2017 12.9 Keystep, Synido Pad controller, Korg NanoKontrol studio and a powered usb hub. All in different cases! I had not thought of adding the interface, that SSL looks cool.
anyway here is some Ipad Doom for you, a Black Sabbath cover. I did it to see if a could make a song on the ipad (well mostly) all the music was done with NanoStudio2 and then I recorded the Vox in a desktop DAW
Thanks, because I don't have a dedicated place for music stuff (and prefer to move it around anyway) having to repatch everything everytime I moved it got annoying quick lol.
Appreciate that! Still building up some acoustic drum kits and getting used to looping with a pedal. I have Korg Gadget, Mariana, and Hilda and have been kinda mixing everything together and playing around. My brother plays guitar and we both like doom/sludge and southern rap.
I took some time off playing music and didn't want to get stuck into a loop of playing the same stuff but also wanted to keep a small setup. Assigning cutoff groups in Koala to make more realistic hihats and making drone music for a soundbed has been a nice shift and fun as hell.
Are you making doom on Loopy Pro or any other app? If so, what's your setup like?
Sorry, no YT channel but here's a photo from the back. I'm using a Verbatim 8-in-1 USB-C powered hub, trays are sized to fit into an SKB/Peli case. Short USB cables to connect the hub to the SSL2 and NanoKontrol2 (I keep these plugged into the hub and tuck them away when not connected), USB-C cable to an outlet or battery for power.
I sometimes use my iPad/Atom by itself (w/usb-c headphone adapter) so they're on a tray and everything secondary is on the other. Interface is so much nicer for volume control and makes sampling into Koala from YT/Spotify much easier via my phone using USBC headphone adapter and an ⅛" to dual ¼" cable.
I'm using Loopy Pro with Koala and some other apps. Atom and Nanokey get switched between the instruments, NanoKontrol is the main transport controls and faders/mutes/solos for each loop group, pedal switches between loops and starts/stops recording and I've been assigning the expression pedal to stuff like effects sends, filter envelopes, or master volume.
Is it easier to carry everything in separate cases when you travel or could you merge two or more pieces of equipment onto a board or something else?
Nice! Did you use the NanoStudio2 as pads for the drums or anything?
Thank you for the reply and behind the scenes pic!
Ok, you re using this more for a “live” set up. I am doing more song composition and production although I am fascinated by live looping.
I just never though of merging them until I saw your pics. For the overseas travel it makes sense to break it down smaller to fit into luggage for the airplanes but for domestic driving travel I will try the tray in case technique, a convenient portable recording studio with tactile interfaces!😀
Yes I did. It was before I had procured the Synido Tempo Pad. I just had the keystep and iPad so I played the NanoStudio2 Slate drum pads one or two tracks at a time over multiple passes to input the drums