dustinlacewell / vcv-minilab3

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Minilab3

A pad-multiplexer for Aturia's Minilab3 and VCV Rack.

Minilab3

The VCV Rack module.

Minilab3 module

Multiplexer?

Imagine you had hundreds of MIDI knobs and mod wheels.

For each pad on the Minilab3, pressing it will get you a whole new set of the non-pad surfaces.

As an example, say I just twist the Minilab3's first knob. We get blue activity:

Minilab3 module

But if I hold down the first pad, an independently tracked red knob value comes out of the expander module:

Minilab3 module

The Aturia Minilab3 has 8 pads, so that's already 64 logical knobs.

Minilab3 module

Buuuut, it has two banks of pads making for 16 pads, or 128 logical knobs!

Minilab3 module

And technically, there's 15 available channels so you could take it to 1,920 knobs...

Minilab3 module

...but your computer will give up first lol.