PACMOD MIDI DJ Controller
For my son’s birthday I made him a DJ controller designed to resemble an old cabinet arcade machine. What follows is a brief overview of the process to make it, including code.
The Teensy was chosen as the brains because of the way it handles USB. Not only does it have native USB, rather than the FTDI USB-to-serial interface that turns making use of the port a series of work-arounds, but as you’ll see in the code the MIDI library makes writing the firmware a trivial pursuit.
Caveat: I found out later that my scaling of the sliders is off & doesn’t allow for full travel in Traktor. Since the controller is away at college with my son I haven’t had access to fix this. I’m certain that it’s just a matter of changing the scale factor, though.
