Do we still need the real thing?

Wow - that looks like a superb hardware controller for MixMaster - Excellent job!

In terms of off-the-shelf mixer controller, I thought this one looked like it might be good but have not got round to trying one.

Yes there are a few options though most target DAW related things, this is the newest one I’ve seen:

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@TheModularMind I recently acquired a sapphire control surface myself. Do you mind sharing your reverse engineering efforts?

nice, are you actually using it as a mixer/interface too? I haven’t used mine in a while. Basically I had to get a CAN-usb device to hook it up to my PC and then translate the CAN messages to MIDI/OSC.

The plan was to use it as a mixer interface, but I’m having a hard time reverse engineering the can bus procotol as i don’t have a nova or power core where I can sniff full communication. I already worked out some CAN messages (RESET, Go to Test Mode, Hello) and button/fader presses in Test Mode, but I was not able to get meaningful CAN messages without test mode.

Would you mind to share details about the CAN bus protocol you already have discovered?

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No need for reverse engineering. CAN BUS protocol has published standards you can follow.

The CAN bus - Wikipedia says you can get them from Bosch, and there are also the ISO standards.

I will DM you the list I have figured out