Interesting controller - Grid

Anybody know anything about this?

Generally a nice concept, but the knobs & faders don’t have a scale or LED markers.
I would rather aim for something from them:

…they also provide a wider variety of control elements (diffrent fader sizes, knob types, joysticks).
What i always miss in those controllers are motorized faders or maybe a pitch/modwheel combination… but i guess we’ll never see the perfect solution that fits everyone’s needs.

I had a play with them at SB22, feelt good, I liked the “eco-system”.

Any updates, experiences here?

I just stumbled upon a kickstarter campaign for that (although it looks a bit difrent now):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/intechstudio/vsn1-the-visionary-controlling-tool

After all i think it’s too pricy for what it does.

Funny, this came up this morning as well on my side :grinning:

Regarding the pricing: this is no mass product, yet. The existing modules are listed on Thomann around 130 - 170 EUR which sounds fair.

Of course you can get a nanoKontrol etc. for less.

More interesting is how good and flexibe the MIDI or OSC implementation would behave in a GP setup.

I just came across this video for the next gen GRID MIDI controller. Way more flexible and powerful than I expected.

Have a look here :slight_smile:

If you want to do (more or less) deep customization you need to take some time - but the possibilities are really great!

BTW: I also did a remote control for my Behringer Wing Rack (SD Recording, Recording Light control) and a dedicated remote for my personal Global Rackspace. I used the page buttons on the Grid for this to switch (and sync!) context on one VSN1L.

I’m currently waiting for one more VSN1 ordered last week :slight_smile:

Thanks for the link. I’ll need to spend some time with it. :wink:

@themaartian
:warning:
I just unpacked my 2nd VSN1 and had to downgrade the firmware to match my existing code (at least for the moment)

The examples provided are running in Grid 1.6.2 / Firmware 1.5.0!

The new module came with 1.5.1 which uses Grid 1.6.5 …

This is a little bit of PiTa - had the same situation last year when updating Grid from a 1.5.x version and had to rework my code :frowning:

Oh, Lord. That unexpectedly took me back to the '80s when I was doing hardware and software design for solar-powered Master and Remote Telemetry Units (MTUs and RTUs) for Amoco Oil Company. I was using the NSC-800 (basically a CMOS Z-80). PCs didn’t really exist yet, so I was doing development with a cross assembler on one VAX 780 and two 750s. The comm. protocol was an old (from the late '50s) hardware-based one that used a byte of FF with a legal (!) parity error to flag the final byte as the checksum. Worked great, except that I was forced to use VMS device drivers instead of terminal drivers for development and testing (terminal drivers would abort to the OS on a parity error). The problem was that device drivers were OS-version specific, so I’d come in on Monday morning and find out the DEC software support in Colorado Springs had updated the OS on my 3 VAXs and cratered my device drivers. I spent a lot of Mondays recoding and testing device drivers instead of doing actual product development. As soon as native 8080/Z-80 development systems became available, I wrote my own APIs and stopped using the VAXs.

I sympathize with your PITA completely. :face_with_steam_from_nose:

And while checking the grid forum and discord channel, there came out just another new version of Grid Editor/FW combination (1.6.7 / 1.5.3)

Sometimes it feels like updates come out faster than I can switch my underwear :zipper_mouth_face:

Personal hygiene is overrated.

Yup. If Pigpen could go 36 years without taking a shower, so can I. :rofl: