Re: thinking about moving from rack to laptop...advice please!

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Per Boysen wrote:

> Mainstage does not at all work along the old hardware based concept of
> "sending MIDI into plug-ins that are programmed to react". What
> Mainstage offers is a software concept based on two steps:
> 
> 1) The user creates his own on-screen set of graphic control objects
> that directly corresponds to the physical control hardware used. These
> screen objects has MIDI Learn capabilities and connect with incoming
> MIDI events from the physical control hardware. This graphic interface
> may not be changed often once it has been set up (not until you buy a
> new MIDI mixer, MIDI pedal-board etc)
> 
> 2) Next phase is to set up the binding between the on-screen objects
> and parameters in the software. When doing this you can apply data
> scaling, reverse a parameter's response on a pedal's range etc, etc.
> 



So surely the assumption is that the midi controller isn't programmable
by the user?

This looks like a backward step compared to simply routing midi into a 
plugin.
Can't imagine that it's compatible with any but the most basic of midi 
controllers.

Of course, etc etc may include rather a lot, which may be some consolation.


andy