DM2 - Arcade Button Mod?

[Patch]

Yo!
I got a spare DM2 lying around the place. D'you think I could easily mod it to have 16 arcade buttons (8 on each side)?

It looks like this:



Whadaya think???

[kaleaf]

ehhe I have one of those also. I dont think its deep enough to house the arcade switches. Is budget the problem? building something new would cost at least $100-150. Also I dont rember how the dm2 shows up in windows (if it shows as a gamepad/joystic if should be easy to convert to midi in software, if it used a special driver then it could get harder.

[SAFC2403]

I bought one of those for use with ableton and promptly gave up on the thing. nightmare to use. I've just gutted it for the buttons for my new UMC-32 inspired midi controller. In fact the only useful thing i got from it was the thumbstick!!

[Patch]

You guys have got to be joking! Didn't you use the DM2 with Pdoom's DM2Midi software??? Super powerful piece of software that turns this toy into a full featured midi controller... If you need the software hit me up and I'll mail it to ya...

[kaleaf]

I rocked it lol... I made custom sounds for the stock software. That thing was actually rad for $40 at toys-r-us. It had quantize mode (not automatic) but it would wait to drop the loop on time if you wanted. I would get it setup and just slowly rotate the 3 fx and slowly crossfade my frends thought I was pro lol.