[sdiy] USB to CV

[Tim Parkhurst]

Okay, so let's say I'm YamaRolEmKor Corp, and I make a zillion
dance/techno/hip-hop/rythmsynthloopersampler workstations (with 570 voices
and 850 parameters... all controlled by four buttons and a two line LCD).
What I would do is have a MIDI port AND a USB2 (or even Fire Wire) port on
the back of my techno-goodie. I would give the USB port all the same
functionality as the MIDI port. THEN what I'd do is tell everyone that we're
proposing a MIDI 2.0 spec. Functionally, it would be EXACTLY the same as the
existing MIDI spec. The ONLY difference would be changing over to a higher
speed interface.

That's What I'D do... (are you listening, YamaRolEmKor Co?)


Tim (I can dream, can't I?) Servo

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Begin [mailto:trypannon at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:40 PM
> To: synth
> Subject: Re: Re: [sdiy] USB to CV
> 
> I was kind of just throwing an idea other there, but mostly thinking of
> maybe trying to write something that can be loaded as a vst to control the
> usb interface.  I don't know much about vst architecture though so maybe
> that isn't at all feasible.
> 
> I know usb > midi >cv is doable but in the true spirit of diy i was
thinking
> of looking for a much more difficult and probably more expensive in the
long
> run solution.
> 
> -steve
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com>
> To: "synth" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [sdiy] USB to CV
> 
> 
> >
> >> Okay. But how are you going to integrate it into a musical environment?
> >> The
> >> point about audio interfaces is that it's a case of plug 'n play.
> >
> > Well, this *is* Synth __DIY__!!
> >
> >> I could be wrong, but I suspect Cubase et al will just laugh at you if
> >> you
> >> try to get it to output control curves to a LabJack.
> >
> > I think you'd have a hard time getting Cubase to output a control curve
to
> > any audio output, be it USB, Firewire, PCI or otherwise.  I suppose you
> > could create a _very_ long mono audio sample of a DC constant and use
the
> > control curves to modulate that in some interesting way.
> >
> > I guess this bounces back to the original poster and ask exactly what
the
> > intended control source is?  Off-the-shelf software, or something
custom??
> >
> > Neil
> >
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