[sdiy] equalizer

[Richard Wentk]

At 22:08 12/10/2005, cheater cheater wrote:

>It surely sounds better.
>But it still has the issues of: 1. ergonomics

Add a controller. Any controller. Build your own. It's up to you.

>2. having to drag around a PC with you (OK, I would play most of the time 
>from my PC, but it'd
>still be very nice to be able to use my mixer without the big gray box
>attached....)

I'm not seeing the difference here. A hardware mixer that does what you 
want is going to be bigger and heavier than a PC. It will arguably be more 
fragile too, in that if the knobs get broken you're screwed.

Reaktor+controller+good soundcard will do much more than you want, can be 
operated remotely so your PC doesn't even have to be visible (visual 
feedback isn't necessary - it's just nice to have) and has all the other 
benefits.

Basically what you can do is build a customised controller box that 
produces MIDI so you have the interface just how you want it, feed that to 
Reaktor, build a patch, and you're done. Keep the converters and PC out of 
sight below the mixing table and no one will ever know there's a laptop 
involved.

>3. latency (can't jump over that one... :( )

An Echo Indigo PCMCIA card will give you 2ms in to out. M-Audio interfaces 
- one more box, but still... - will give you about the same.

Richard