Re: power is nothing without control (was Re: Filter-Looper Swapping)

[Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>]

Hi Jeff,
I am absolutely in tune with you and I'm sorry if I've been unclear.
I was referring to the poor facts I am discovering during the last days, 
seeing how many sw/hw producers are softly sitting on really cheap 
solutions ( like using the mackie control protocol) instead of uptodate 
open midi structures.
max/MSP is a great sw and will be the first I will try to install ( the 
others on the list are audiomulch and reaktor) on my sw looping setup 
but I was referring to the converter's native sw mixer (see Rme's 
totalmix and Motu's one).
If they just tried to make one step more we would have wonderful power 
available in many audio cards, residing in their internal sw.
I get crazy when m.i. producers stop their development just one step 
before the available potential.
Thanks again for your kind care,
best,
Luca

Jeff Kaiser wrote:

> hi luca,
>
> I don't want to be redundant with our private emails: but I thought it 
> worth repeating for the list.....This is one of the reasons I went 
> with Max/MSP....big time flexibility of routing. Inside the max/MSP 
> environment you can freely route/reroute audio paths/controller paths 
> all over the place, making it perfect for hybrid rigs of laptop and 
> other hardware, or pure software. And so many of the guys onboard 
> Cycling 74 (I think all of them) are musicians....at least the ones I 
> know personally: Andrew Pask, Gregory Taylor, Ben Nevile.
> best regards,
> Jeff
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> Jeff Kaiser
> http://www.jeffkaisermusic.com
> pfMENTUM.com • AngryVegan.com
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> On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Luca Formentini wrote:
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>> even if I am really surprised by music industry underconsideration 
>> conceirning control capabilities, I have been analyzing audio 
>> converters' internal audio routing/splitting/mixing capabilities for 
>> 2 years now.
>> I use switchblades since many years but, given the growing 
>> availability of digital connections on processing hw and the shift 
>> from just hardware to mixed setups composed by hw and sw, I think 
>> that audio interfaces offer a convenient solution to do this kind of 
>> complex audio spaghetti.
>> The problem resides in the midi implementation offered by their 
>> manufacturers. None of them ( Rme said that officially and Motu by 
>> the mouth of their italian importer) care about making this objects 
>> flexible hearts for evoluted signal routing.
>> The most stupid thing is that they all have what they need, it's just 
>> a matter of control so, like a famous italian commercial says "power 
>> is nothing without control".
>> It's a shame, once again it looks like there are no musicians in the 
>> manifacturers' teams.
>> best,
>> luca
>> www.unguitar.com
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