Ableton Live Foot Controller & Electro-Supplies

Ever since I saw a post about using a keyboard with a bunch of the keys ripped off to control Ableton Live (see $10 Ableton Controller) I wanted to make one of them, but put it in a huge box, and use stomp-switches, unfortunately digikey & mouser have insane prices on them (like $5 - $15 each) Today over at CDM they posted about the footswitch pictured here, and It's a lovely beast. 21 keys (one controls the capslock) for a combo of 40 unique functions, woah.

To see more about the controller visit : http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=112242&start=0&sid=1f8e10848bc19d4eca657e02cd363dff

Anywho, as I was flipping through that post somebody meantioned the cost of those switches, and fortunately for us, provided a source to get them at a reasonable price, about a buck each... nice ... You can get directly to the switch in question here: http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Switches/Push-Button-Switches/Foot-switches/79208

I flipped through a couple pages ... and this shop is excellent, I'm thinking they'll get my business for my next major geek-out project.

Neatorama Queue & New Template...

I've been working near full-time on getting to the top of the list over on the Neatorama Queue ... top poster this month gets an Ipod Touch ... so fingers crossed... I'm also working on a new template for this blog, you can check it out over at: http://aggtest.blogspot.com/ ... it's still in the very fundamental stages though.