Developer Calvin Chu has announced Palette – a new modular MIDI controller system that makes creating a custom controller easy.
Palette lets you build a physical interface customized to your personal needs. It is a hardware platform made up of a variety of modules. Each module has a single physical input, like a button, dial or a slider. You snap together modules like Lego.
Here’s a video intro to Palette:
How does it work?
Each kit comes with it’s own Power Module. To create a custom controller:
- Connect the Power Module to a USB port
- The Power Module is detected by our Palette Desktop App
- Connect as many modules as you’d like to create your own unique interface
- The desktop app detects these modules on the fly, as you add and rearrange them
- Use the app to individually map modules to software functions, or use presets to map them all at once
Palette is being developed as a Kickstarter project, with kit options starting at $89 CAD. See the project site for more info.
Check out the Palette system and let us know what you think of it!
That’s the same idea of phoneblock, but for musician 🙂 i’m down if it’s not too expenssive
Would love something like this for iOS synths.
That is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Gotta love all these cool kickstarter projects comming up lately.
I was thinking something like this would be great for iOS synths, perhaps with printable panels to go with each synth.
I have been saying for years that there needs to be some kind of intuitive hands-on controllers that can be used with graphics software. The mouse and keyboard suck! The music world has so many great interfaces, but this is really a giant leap for other types of users. FINALLY, these guys have done it!
This was an idea I came up with a year ago, oddly someone finally made it. I wanted to call it “Knob” using a USB device, somehow things stick together, but this guy did it, awesome.
nice! Disclosure music 😀