DIY MIDI Controller For A Worship Leader
That's not a MIDI controller! That's a controller for a Vox amp. The VSF5, to be exact. You're correct...sort of. It WAS the VSF5, now it is something rather different. The goal of this project was to allow the worship leader I work with to be able to trigger his tracks through MIDI. The functionality is very, very simple in that there are two banks, selectable by the bank switch, and each bank has 4 channels. Each of the 8 total channels is assigned a unique MIDI note that can be mapped to whatever in the software. Pretty cool. So why did I destroy a perfectly good VSF5? Because I don't own any amp that this works with and have no idea how I came to own it. Having no use for it but finding it too cool to get rid of, I found a new use for it. First step was to rip everything out and drill holes in the back for a MIDI connector and USB cable. Stepper bits are invaluable for this sort of work. I highly recommend getting your hands on some. Once h...