VController_v3
Production model of the VController, VC-mini and VC-touch
The VC-touch is a MIDI footcontroller with 15 buttons and a large TFT touch screen:
The VC-mini is a small version of the VController with 3 buttons, 3 LEDs, 2 encoders and 1 LCD display:
The VController is the original controller with 16 buttons, 12 LCDs and 12 LEDs:
All can be fully programmed both onboard and via an external editor for Mac and PC called VC-edit. All devices share the same code for the Teensy firmware and the editor (Qt)
Device support
A number of guitar modelers and synths are supported, where it actively read patch names and parameter states for the following devices:
- Fractal Audio Axe-fx 2 (other models may work too, but have not been tested yet)
- Boss GP-10
- Roland GR-55
- Roland VG-99
- Boss Katana (50/100/Artist - MK1 and MK2)
- Boss SY-1000
- Kemper Profiling Amp
- Line 6 Helix (limited)
- Line 6 M13
- Zoom G3
- Zoom MS70-cdr
- Strymon Volante
- TC Electronics G-Major
- NUX MG-300
General MIDI
The VController, VC-mini and VC-touch are also able to send MIDI PC, CC and Note on/off messages to control any device that is able to receive these messages.
Programmability
The VController, VC-mini and VC-touch support up to 200 user pages, where a total of almost 3000 commands can be programmed. Any button can execute up to 50 commands.
Connectivity of the VController
- There are two MIDI in/out conenctors and MIDI 2 doubles as an RRC2 connection for the VG-99.
- Four external expression pedals or eight external switches can be connected.
- One USB slave connector (also used for programming the VController)
- An internal or external Raspberry Pi can add four USB host ports to the VController.
Connectivity of the VC-mini
- Two 7 pin MIDI connectors with MIDI in/out and power in one connector. MIDI1 has a seperate 7 pin connector with MIDI in/out reversed. The 7 pin connectors are compatible with regular 5 pin MIDI connectors.
- One external expression pedal or two external switches can be connected via a 3.5 mm jack plug (may need an adapter to regular jack.)
- One USB slave connector (also used for programming the VC-mini)
- One USB host port
Connectivity of the VC-touch
- Three 7 pin MIDI connectors with MIDI in/out and power in one connector, MIDI in/out port on 3,5 mm plugs, wireless MIDI through MIDI BLE and WIFI - AppleMIDI.
- Three external expression pedal or six external switches can be connected via a 3.5 mm jack plug (may need an adapter to regular jack.)
- One USB slave connector (also used for programming the VC-touch)
- One USB host port
Hardware
This repository contains the building plans (enclosure and schematics) for the VC-mini, the VController and the optional external Raspberry Pi. Check out the building guides for both projects.
Firmware
This repository also contains the source code for the V-Controller, the VC-mini and for VC-edit. The source code for VC-bridge (the code for the raspberry pi) is in a separate repository called VC-bridge. There are also ready made hex files for the V-Controllers Teensy. There is also special firmware to check hardware of the V-Controller or the VC-mini.
For VC-edit there is a ready to run zip file for windows and dmg-file for Mac. Also the source code of VC-edit is provided.
Webstore
You can buy ready made VC-mini's and VC-touches or seperate PCBs and enclosures at my webstore. https://sixeightsoundcontrol.onlineweb.shop/
Support
Please visit https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=277.0 for additional information or for any questions you have regarding this project. Please post any questions on the board, where several users and builders can respond and help.
I have invested thousands of hours in this project. You can support me here: https://www.paypal.me/sixeight