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

[Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>]

Dears,
Just consider one thing about mackie protocol:
assume you want to move fader n. 9 ? you have to switch a "channel bank 
up" button and so the faders go to channels 9 to 16.
There you are in one row of faders, let's think they are the input faders.
Want to move to output ones ?
Switch "down" somewhere and you go down...
Ice on the cake ?
You know how they discern from the channel fader ? with midi channels ! 
smart, no ?

Wouldn't it be more simple if any channel could have their own note or 
controller or whatever or maybe, seing that we are in 2006, a simple 
midi learn ?

the mighty mackie protocol: http://members.aol.com/mhigrules/MCMap.htm

crazy.

About Switchblade: It is an awesome piece of gear, but why we should 
collect latency and ad/da convertions when we can have one ad, make all 
the processing routing via digital (using spdif/optical/aes-ebu/fw) and 
have the last da at the end ? (assuming we're not using pedals in the 
routing).
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best,
luca