I designed these controllers some time ago now, with no idea of how I was actually going to achieve anything more than some wooden boxes painted black. Luckily some of my cousins run an engineering company and were kind enough to take on the task of building these professionally for me. THANK GOD!

I sent them some sketches/dimensions and they did a bit of CAD magic, creating all the schematic diagrams for me. It took a few iterations to get things right; It was mainly the box that was causing me issues as the supporting ridge for the faceplate made it a very tight squeeze for the circuit boards to fit in, if not impossible. The solution was to just have “beams” for fastening bolts through the faceplate instead of the ridge, this gave more room for the boards (after a bit of modification anyway).

The idea is to have all the MIDIBox circuits, the CORE, AINX, DINX, DOUT etc secured to a length of perspex inserted into the bottom of the case. Then there is two layers of perspex, a bottom layer that’ll sit flush in the box and have all the button/pots attached from the underneath and a top layer which is purely for aesthetics, hiding all the bolts needed to attach everything and also have embossed labels for each control.

I hope to get a semi-professional look out of the case, even if the internals will be a bit of a mess. The plans were sent off to manufacture today, so hopefully should receive the finished result within a few weeks!

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