▶︎Control Surface

Year: 2017
Type: Personal, Industrial Design
Done: Concept Design, Modeling & Rendering, Work in progress 

This is the concept of the wireless universal transport control devices (HUI & Midi) for DAW. Gear from year to year became more available, so there are more and more musicians with big rigs in big studios with massive synth setups, and modular walls. While observing a few, I thought that something is missing – people need to have the ability to control their transport with hands-on on gear while being on the other side of the studio far from the computer. Or be able to have a good looking device for on table control. Looking for competitors apparently gave not results, so I thought why not to dream about this. The goal was to visualize in detail something you will want to touch and interact with. Note that brand is just for fun, I thought that something German would be nice.

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Smallest, the most autonomous version with a built-in battery, but without the cursor knob. This is what you can take in every corner of your studio. Plus "Undo" button by default. 

An advanced version of Model 10. Zoom, Cursor & Page controls plus user defined shortcut with full transport and version control. 

A fader companion to Control 50. Fully featured interactive faders with VU meters and Pan Control for each channel. I thought it would be useful to use RGB LEDs on the first row to represent channel color codes for better visual navigation.

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Visualization of the full rig of transport and mixer control together. I guess it is quite impossible to have them both wireless while keeping the connection and ping reliable for every day and long hour in studio use.

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