Such a cool video, you've given me so many ideas and now I know how to start them all. Thanks DJTT

To get a cleaner job drilling the large holes - use a forstner bit not a spade bit - and back up every hole with a scrap piece of 2x4 or similar.

As a dj and electronic engineer, i'll just say: that's what I was waiting for. Amazing tutorial

So... a 2019 edition coming up? With motorized sliders.

Thanks, about to do something similar. Didn't know that teensy had midi over USB support, you just saved me a ton of time by not fooling with midi serial.

Hi... nice video. I did a similar project a few years ago with an arduino UNO. I actually used a power router with a very thin bit to cut the straight lines out for the faders. It worked really nicely because the router has a guide edge so you get a perfectly straight cut. The finish looked really professional. Just thought I'd share that with you. ANyway... nice work

Really nice build.

Great, comprehensive video. Thanks!

even the design is Awesome being an DIY controller pretty damn good!

Hi Interesting video, love the basic setup and the expansive explanation from beginning to end, great for starters! So keep em coming. I do have some tips however for soldering and the case making. First for the case: When drilling holes I can recommend three things. One: you can tape the front of your box when drilling with masking tape, this can prevent some of the damage the drill makes; two: put the inside of your box on a smaller hard surface (for example cheap mdf) when drilling, when you do this you are less likely to splinter the bottom and you get much cleaner holes; third: hand drills are great for DIY, however when you have a drill press I can highly recommend using this as it is far more precise and will involve way less clean-up. On the soldering part, I saw you used wires meant for breadboarding (the jumper wires), these are great, however using stranded core wire makes it easier to solder and is more flexible (and likely cheaper than jumper wires), furthermore you can also use shrink tubing more easily. I can also recommend resin/flux cored solder, it is a bit more expensive, however is is amazing when soldering, just coat everything with the solder and then connect, its easy and fast. P.S. Thanks for this video, really love it wish there were a lot more videos for introductions to music DIY equipment.

can not wait to build my midi controller ! beautiful tutorial, thanks man.

Awesome, I haven't built anything since we made a radio in school, but maybe I'll have the guts to give this a try. Cool!

Thanks guys !!!Great video

Just finished building mine today. Thankyou for your help in this video. Demo coming soon on my channel if anyone’s interested

Best project!!! Love it.

Absolutely fantastic video! I'm going to my own too. Thanks!

Can you program CC values into the tinsy board and use a regular midi port instead of usb?

I plan on making a super special unique midi with this as reference, thanks

Mad respect.

I've always wanted to know how to make a MIDI controller, great video!

thanks for all the hard work! great vid

AWESOME!!! I cant wait to get some custom controllers designed specifically for my favorite Komplete 11 Ultimate software :P

GREAT ! THANK U

Very helpful thank you.

2019 version case can be 3D printed 🤘🏽 Faders crackle and fail pretty easy. You can protect them from debris by making a slice of felt between the board cutout and mount. Nice video. Thanks.

Super cool!

very informative video, I enjoyed it but was curious to know if Bluetooth technology would have too long of a response time considering latency but still would love to try it just for the fun

Awesome!!!

you are a genius man

nice work

Bravo !

pretty awesome

Nice job!

wow dude you are amazing!

Thanks for sharing!!

very nice video, thank you so much! :)

You are Joseph J: Cool: What a fabulous idea. Also I am inspired by the fact that you have the same cheapo but controllable soldering iron that I found on ebay.

awesome

Nice Job!

amazing thank you so muchQ!!

You are the man

"instant gratification" "after 24 hours" "wait 72 hours"

Very very cool video thank you...

Time to take this idea to the max! DYI 40 channel mix board here i come!!! Also gana make 20 Know addon, then a 10x10x4 pad DYI MAX!

Amazing

A lot of work, but great detailed explanation, thanks a lot. What about using an arduino uno board for this? why did you choose the teensy?

Parts list in the description would be awesome.. +1 for the vid.

hello can you please build a diy motorized fader midi controller usb? 1-4 fader thanks.great video.

Excellent!!!!!! I really love it! could you please tell me if I can use an arduino uni or an arduino Leonardo instead? if yes could you please help me with the software? could it work with virtual DJ or dj softwares? thank you!

Thats amazing!i subbed 😆

That's awesome

WOOOW!!!!! Good Job!!!!

wow its very cool ... i like it ..

great video guuys!!!

awesome!!!

great video!! but can you please show us how to make a bigger midi controller with jogwheels and how to do when you puss a button that a led turns on?

Thank you very much for the tutorial, sorry for my poor english jajaja... I have a question. To this project I can add a multiplexer to place more knobs ?, I would have to modify much of the code or just to add the knobs to the code would work?

Is there any noticeable delay between the faders and the DAW? Been thinking about building this with 8 faders witch each 4 send effects.

I would have loved to see this with actual MIDI jacks and adding proper MIDI implementation since I tend to build a ton of non computer based instruments

I'm doing a project very similar to this, using the Teensy 2.0 as the brain. Because the Teensy only has one active and ground pin do I wire up the active and ground chains in series or parallel? It doesn't specify and this could affect the voltage that each part gets...

Hey could you explain what led you to go with Teensy instead of some of the other options? Been looking at Livid Builder. I think it's a little more expensive but it seems so straightforward

can you set an individual midi channel on each of the knob/fader/button, as well as an individual midi cc message?

nice!

The comments section has taught me that I don't really like people who are good at soldering.

+DJ TechTools would you use piezos if you wanted velocity, in say, an mpc build?

perfect

dope

Really good video, now i really want to make one ! But it would be great if you could make a video with a bit more of theory, how to program, what we can do, all the different teensy board we can use, or other thing like this. So we could create exactly what we want ! But it style a great video, and don't stop, DJ TechTools is the best "music channel" i know !!!

if you covered both sides of the lid with painter's tape before drilling that would help with the splitting, or just use a sheet of acryllic for the top instead.

nice vids, what's the track I'd at the end ?

great

I love how you make a point of mentioning the proper step up process when drilling but then do absolteuly nothing else and still almost ruin your material.

What a good Job!!! Thanks man. sorry if it's an old video, but can i use a regular Arduino as midi card? Sorry for my silly question, i'm french and i don't really understand all what you said in the video.

Thank you so much, can we use this for X32 Rack Behringer.

Welcome! In this video there are 4 potentiometers, 4 faders and 4 arcade buttons. How many potentiometers and faders and buttons together we can use in one project using arduino uno?

wow sei ittaliano!!!

DAMN

i may have missed it in the video, but are the buttons/pads velocity sensitive?

Very cool idea. Using arduino plc built-in a DIY midi. Awesome it works!!!. Will that arduino work with my Maschine Studio software and combined with the controller maschine midi plug ? I was thinking to buy a new brand 16+master midi+effects. Just to take the digital out convert into analogue, arrange and get set to digitalize back again. Best,

Your soldering technique will create weak/cold solder joints. They're likely to crack under stress/vibrations. If you plan on performing in a club where volume levels will be quite high, I recommend NOT globbing solder onto your joints. Use some decent flux-core solder, apply the iron to one of your metal contacts, not to the solder. Apply solder to the opposite contact, again DO NOT TOUCH solder to the iron. The solder will take to the contact and flow toward your iron if the two pieces of metal are heated well enough, and share enough surface area. This will create a strong joint resistant to vibration damage.

does this will work with SDJ (2017)??? I have my ns7 and i really meed more buttons according to my necessities

Hello, I wonder if I could spend the code I need it for a job, good video

What's the limit to the amount of faders and pots you can have with the teensy board you're using?

is it possible to make drum pads and connect them to the controller?

is it possible to add audio outputs? i want to make one for my djing but need one with audio,

It's possible to build a standalone version like a drum machine? Or it works only with a program like ableton live on the pc?

Good

this pretty much is the verge pc build video of the diy midi world. but that being said it was informative enough to help me build one

Is it possible i can buy this? The wooden style would fit amazing with my desk.

hello there do you have diagrams from teensy to each pin point( going to buttons and slides) as well... thanxs in advance

i have been eyeing my midifighter original and my broken vestax vci 100 se - thinking " a scratch + button masher box would be just what i need for my traktor D player" if I just had some bonus hours then this would be a great intro to that

So, did the midi mapping stick after you did it once? I am trying to figure out how to store midi maps on the brain so that it automatically maps different DAWs

Great tutorial but could i make on compatible with pro tools 12?

wow

put painters tape on the inside while you dremel it out. that will prevent a good bit of the blow out

Cherry or Oak wouldn't be so nasty to work on. The dremel would cut and sand it pretty nicely. Harder is better unless you want something that'll crush with a single hard fall. Otherwise, very cool project. Looking into the parts it's not much cheaper making your own. Large part of why I just went ahead and bought the MIDI Fighter 3D and Twister.

Don't do the soldering technique used here, this can cause cold joints and insufficient wetting. it's much easier to just to apply the solder to the pad and pin directly and then melt it.

does anyone know a service or way to get a customized professional DJ controller with motorized platters and soft pads and so on?

Atleast theres always good backround music

Questions 1: is there a good central store to get these components such as knobs, faders etc. if so can you send me a link? 2. Does the teensy board limit how many faders/knobs you can program to send midi signals? And if so, are there larger boards to assign more controller knobs to? 3. is it possible to create a MIDI controller which is specifically used for knobs solely To assign automation to each knob, Like the Faderfox PC12?