-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:11:30AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2007 schrieb Ken Restivo: > > My M-Audio Axiom 49 just died. And I have four live shows scheduled next > > week (Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday). I don't have time to get it > > repaired, and I can't afford to replace it. > > Too bad. Maybe you can rent one from a local music-shop? When I'm losing money, I usually fold. This time I tried something different: I "doubled down". I bought a Novation Remote 61 SL. Under *warranty*. It rules. The UI on this thing is AMAZING. It's got two 2x256 character LCD displays. It's *verbose*, designed for people who understand and remember words better than numbers. Very clear. I counted a total of 78 fully-assignable buttons/knobs/sliders/rotaries/pedals. It also seems *much* better made than any of M-Audio's cheap plastic crap. The keyboard action feels like a 1980's-era Roland or Yamaha synth. > > > To get me through these shows, I can borrow a MIDI keyboard, with just keys > > and no buttons/knobs/sliders, which means I'm going to have to build a GUI > > myself to use on the laptop or touchscreen for controlling parameters. > > PD is a natural for this, but I like GTK widgets better. And the PD sliders > > might not be big enough for touchscreen use. > > The pd-sliders are not fixed in their size. Just open the properties and make > them bigger (first two entries on the top if I remember correctly). Thanks. I also discovered GriPD too. But now that I have the Novation, I'm going to concentrate on getting that running. > > > Is there anything like this "midicontroller" app that uses OSC instead? > > I think I will have some kind of OSC message sending app in ofqf[1] for the > next release... > > Arnold > > [1] http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=ofqf Nice, thanks! Also, I'm finding the stuff that Lars is working on with dbus, to be intriguing too. My fantasy now is a keyboard controller that has a control surface and keyboard much like the Novation, but has an 10/100/1000 Ethernet, WiFi, or BlueTooth interface instead of MIDI or USB, and communicates using dbus and/or OSC natively. The advantage is that you wouldn't need weird SysEx hacks or proprietary software in order to make use of the "automap template" feature that the Novation does. A keyboard like that could run off of a Gumstix running linux, so it most definitely will get developed by someone, someday. Actually, now that I think of it, instead of knobs/buttons/sliders, a 640x480 touchscreen might be a better bet, and multitouch once the price of those comes down. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9YSue8HF+6xeOIcRAi87AKDmGFAJIrcB9AlHlZbcfdGKilWW7wCglaEn MqgC0fGNsduALJJABdZtjBA= =XEgJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
