On Saturday 01 December 2007 03:08, David Griffith wrote: > Another thing that hardware synths have over software is the user > interface. You just can't get the kind of flexibility that you > have when you reach out and grab cables and frob knobs. Well, there are controllers out there with a lot of knobs and sliders. I have one myself. But I haven't had time to get my sliders working with Bristol as drawbars, for example, or to get my knobs working with Zyn, and that's something I do see as a drawback.... but the lack of controller standardization is really the fault of the hardware makers, not the Linux synth authors. I've played and owned a lot of hardware synths over the years, but ever since I realized 10 years ago that I could get a recording of a software synth with no analog hiss, I haven't played hardware synths at all. Once I got my little Edirol controller, I put them all in storage and will probably sell them someday if they still work, though someone just gave me a CZ-101 and I may give in to nostalgia for a while first. I was tempted by that Korg vocoder one that came out a couple years ago, but.... no SPDIF, no deal. Maybe someday it'd be possible through the existence of LASH to create a standard control set (I assume LASH sessions include things like MIDI control mapping) and write "drivers" for all our controllers to map the physical controls to that control set. But I probably wouldn't be able to contribute much to that aside from a few "drivers", because LASH is magic to me. Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
