Now it's "Moog-in-a-Box"

[David Halliday (Volt Computer)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dacc at soltec.net [SMTP:dacc at soltec.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 23, 1997 6:39 PM
> To:	sc at magic.ca
> Cc:	analogue at hyperreal.com
> Subject:	Re: Now it's "Moog-in-a-Box"
> 
> At 22:00 23/4/1997 -0400, Steve J. Cowan wrote:
> >
> >This brings up a curious question, though (and I'm no expert):
> RS-232
> >is simply a serial data connection.  MIDI is also a simple serial
> data
> >connection, with a little extra protocol attached to it.  Would it
> not
> >be more practical to do this with MIDI?
> 
> No, because I think Paul's idea here is to provide a software
> interface
> that replaces the front panel and all of its patch routings. For that,
> you
> need something more robust than bottleneck-able MIDI.
> Remember...what's
> being talked-to here is that whole entire angled cabinet that we all
> know
> and drool over from the Moog pictures of yore, jammed into a single
> little
> data-addressed box. Data communication to such a thing is going to be
> a
> real hair-puller unless the communications bus is pretty hefty.
> 
> Which is why I would like to see SCSI as a possibility...  
> 
> Mac already has this onboard, PCs either have it or it can be
> installed for about $50.