Odp: [sdiy] Knob Box Limitations?

[Roman Sowa]

If it's proprietary software that you write, why use MIDI at all,
and not, say, RS232. Or even use USB, there are small cheap
USB I/Fs that can be used as COM on user side.
If you really want MIDI, there won't be any limit on knobs count
if you use sysex to transmit their values.

OTOH, 300 knobs may be hard to use. Finding THAT knob might
take a while in the sea of knobs. But otherwise it would look cool.

Roman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matthew Wyeth <matt at amphibio.us>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Knob Box Limitations?


> I've been lurking here for a couple weeks hoping my question would come up,
> yet it hasn't... I don't know a whole lot about Synth DIY, I've been
> together a couple PAIA kits, but nothing really intensive, and nothing that
> didn't hold my hand the entire way.
> 
> The project is this... a friend and I are in the process of building a
> sequencer, the software part is nearing completion and now it's time to
> start working on the hardware interface.  Basically, it's just going to be a
> huge knob box that'll send parameters to the computer, and then out to the
> synths... The box is going to have several hundred knobs (at least 300) and
> I'm wondering if I'm going to run into problems with MIDI... I'd prefer to
> use something like ethernet/osc/usb/etc but I don't know how easy this is to
> implement or if that would solve any problems.
> 
> I've looked at ucapps, but it doesn't say much about the maximum number of
> knobs you can have... if a couple hundred isn't a limitation that looks like
> a great existing format to work with.
> 
> __
> matthew wyeth r.
> http://amphibio.us
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