On 9/23/07, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----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. > I was going to suggest Khagan, despite it's lack of recent releases it is the tool for just this job. Input to OSC And if you've got a graphics tablet it is pretty cool. http://khagan.berlios.de i thought it was not that handy so the project is pretty dead. Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
