Midilar news

Dear Midilar friends,

thank you very much for all your support, messages, emails and comments I received.

It was a long break in production of Midilar controllers but I am planning to start producing them again. I’ll try to get in touch with all of you who were interested in my products soon.

For now I am posting photos of upgraded version of Midilar nó.

Have a great day!

Jakub

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Great news! Welcome back Jakub! Regards, Andras

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Fantastic! Excited to hear about the new controllers.

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Man, those fader caps look nice! Are those knobs trim-pots or something bigger? Because what I’ve discovered in hardware is that trim-pots is something I want to avoid when possible. Too small for comfort and travel too ackward and flimsy.

Thank you Lars, the shaft of knobs is 12,5mm x 6mm and yes, someone can find it small, the reason why I am doing also eurorack version of Midilar, where you can have bigger knobs.

Hello friends. Over the past few months I’ve been working on bringing Midilar back to life and in this video you’ll find the first preview.

I don’t want to be too hard on myself :slightly_smiling_face: but this is roughly how Midilar should have looked when I first started the project about 8 years ago. Labeled modules, Send All function, Shift function with pickup mode, fine tuning and last but not least, the ability to patch with physical cables (huge thanks to Ben (stoermelder) for all udpates and packOne and packTau collection of modules).

Either way, this whole project is one big journey one I’ll set out on again from time to time, or sometimes just stand still for a while. Maybe that’s exactly why I enjoy it: it’s an adventure, and I never quite know where it’s going.

What you’ve seen or are about to see in the video below is the smallest system, but with a patchbay. Honestly, the patchbay both does and doesn’t make sense. It makes sense when you just want to turn on your computer, open VCV Rack, and then patch and play without touching the computer again.

The system without the patchbay offers far more flexibility with a mouse you can make many more connections but still having all the controls right at your fingertips. Essentially: you patch with the mouse, you play with Midilar.

You can find everything on this new “website”: Midilar MKII which I plan to keep updating. So, what do you think? :slight_smile:

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