[sdiy] equalizer

[cheater cheater]

Hi again, Richard!

On 10/12/05, Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com> wrote:
> 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.

you (obviously) haven't seen my PC 8)
also: I'd think SMT parts would lighten it up a lot, no?
also: I think a mixer, where I can put the PCBs and parts in any way I
like, can be built much more ruggedly than a PC with PCI connectors
and hard drives and whatnot.
Dropping a (good) mixer from a table is half as bad as dropping a PC.

> It will arguably be more
> fragile too, in that if the knobs get broken you're screwed.
>
I don't own a laptop...

> Reaktor+controller+good soundcard will do much more than you want,

That's the point. This is one of those places where too much = bad and
just right = excellent :-)

> 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.
>

Doesn't matter to me. I'm not into all that DJVINYL1210 hype really. I
don't care if people don't like a big-ass monitor on my table 8)

> >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.

Don't forget:
1. a 10 x in card takes a lot of your wallet
2. with ableton, I want as much of the processing power available to
that as possible. 10 tracks going through reaktor will hog my cpu.
3. even if the *hardware* supports 2 ms in/out, don't forget that the
sound goes through the software... which is running on the CPU. Even
with a fast CPU you're still going to get much more than those 4
miliseconds... :(
4. i'd still want to be able to add a groovebox or analog drum machine
to my setup, just for fun :) that's why I'm talking about 5 channels.

Cheers,
D. 8))