Hi all! i just got an x-session usb midi controller i finally bought it because i saw it had midi in and out , so i thought i could get it working in linux (and because recently i was experimenting with jack-rack and also noticed by accident that if you right-click a knob you can map a midi controller, have anybody done this ? is it as easy as that? ) so i have only tested it under ugly windows with the demo soft (it includes ugly versions of Live and Arturia Storm which goes directly to the trash bin...) anyway it worked great!! i recommend this experience to any one used to work with soft synthesizers, its an outrageous experience being able to control everything with your hands (last week i used jack rack with xmms and loaded a prodigy mp3 of the new album, connected to jackrack and loaded up several effects there, a reverse delay , the dj flanger and a simple non interpolating delay with that setup i started to improvise in realtime awesome! prodigy's music has tons of breaks you could use to start the flanger or combine it with the reverse delay creating an incredible effect similar to a scratch (the program's got wet / dry so you can use this to simulate the beat juggle of a turntable the dry is when you scratch forward and the wet is when you scratch backwards) this stuff is just amazing! also with the delay you can create unbelievable retrigger effects just as the ones used in drum n bass or other music (bt calls it stutter editing i think...) so im eager to CONTROL jack-rack effects with my hands !!! i cant imagine how that would be, FX utopia... the x-session's got a x-fader, for instance you could control the wet/dry with it !!! so imagine, i could make beat excellent live scratch / beat juggling effects with just pulling the x-fader from side to side... the controller sends midi-cc messages (so i also can control some specimen sampler parameters with this thing! thanks pete!) the problem is that ive only used it via usb with my fathers win box. I would like to use it via usb with linux anybody knows something about this ??? ive heard recently that someone bought an evolution usb keyboard, i think it would be similar... anyway if that couldnt be done , i could load it up via midi , the problem here is that there's no ac adapter included (i should buy it later) but i would like to connect it usb... because of portability also, being able to carry the controller in a bag with my laptop and just connect it usb is going to be outrageous man! ... tweaking jack-rack's filters in the Metro is going to be so much fun... anyway i would like to thank everybody in this community for making these brutal audio tools. ivan. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexi?n a internet y 2GB en tu buz?n de Correo Yahoo! por $100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx
