While there are commercial controllers out there, none of them fit what he was looking for. He solved the problem by building the Tannin DIY MIDI controller. Tannin features 19 buttons ...

For an older standard, MIDI has remarkable staying power in the ... but its age does show a little bit. Sending control change (CC) messages, for example, was originally designed to fit within ...

if all you want to do is play external synths via your DAW - most likely with a view to recording them to audio alongside ...