[sdiy] Re: [AH] UIs and GUIs - Re: Tetra You Tube demo

[cheater cheater]

I would get bored with just one interface all the time.
There's a reason a violin is held under your chin while a guitar isn't.
What you're looking for is called OSC

D.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Greg Morgan<greg.morgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is what I am looking forward to:
>
> An ethernet-based (FCOE?) standard to replace MIDI.
>
> Then I want a standardized "hardware control interface" so that my hundred
> of awesome little ethernet-based modules can be mounted into racks, and I
> can call up each module in my HCL, that could be a euphonix-type controller
> connected to a PC, or some standalone device, whatever. Give it a sound card
> with DC-coupled outputs and embed the Volta into it so that I can control my
> analog modules.
>
> Hell, connect it to a studio console that uses the same technology to
> connect to outboard effects, compressors and whatnot.
>
> It sucks having to learn a new UI with every synth. "patch" it out to a
> control system and focus on making the internal routing possibilities as
> flexible as possible, I mean, how much development work goes into figuring
> out how the knobs will work? If you as a designer could just pop that out to
> an embedded ASIC that speaks FCOE or Ethernet would it give you more time to
> work on more groundbreaking things?
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Mark Pulver <mark at midiwall.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeup.. that was my point with that example. It's a prime case of someone
>> that would be a Tetra customer.
>>
>> The librarian functions of software (in general, I dunno what the DSI stuff
>> is like) will far exceed whatever could be grafted into an embedded
>> platform. Plus, the session player can (will/does) work out sounds at home
>> where he can sit in front of a computer clicking and dragging away.
>>
>> I think this is Tetra's prime audience, and I'm thinking Dave saw it that
>> way as well. The most used "session" knobs are right there on the box.
>> Cutoff, Resonance, Attack, Decay/Release.
>>
>> -----
>> John Mahoney (03:23 PM 8/12/2009) wrote:
>> >
>> >This is a very good example of a user's needs, but it's essentially
>> >the setup/headaches issue, again. And, consider the other side of it:
>> >A session player could travel with a slew of Tetra-sized boxes if
>> >they all used one PC for their programming interfaces; add to this
>> >the superior searching and storage options provided by software, and
>> >there's a good case to be made for the Tetra model.
>> >
>> >At 05:49 PM 8/12/2009, Mark Pulver wrote:
>> >
>>  >>- Studio session players. They want to walk into a studio session
>> >>with a minimal amount of gear, all preloaded with their portfolio.
>> >>Minimal programming will be done at the session. Computers are used
>> >>only for the MIDI NOTE ON/OFF interface.
>>
>>
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