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Subject: FW: [motm] Cloud Interface Debate

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2007-09-05

 
If the ICs go out of production, hopefully the device will still function, though. But if the ability to "talk" to it becomes obsolete, then the device loses its functionality, no?
 
I hope to be using my modular 20 years from now, but will personal computers look the same at that point? I'm already having problems at work trying to find a way to read 5.25" floppies made seven years ago!
 
I never thought of this whole discussion as a "real time" thing. God, I hope not. It would be nice to hook the thing to a PC to load up some new scales, but when using the modular, I would hope it would function independently of a computer.
 

From: synth1@... [mailto:synth1@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:01 PM
To: Tkacs, Ken
Subject: Re: [motm] Cloud Interface Debate

a) The ICs on the Cloud Generator will go obsolete before USB or Ethernet.

b) THe context of the original discussion was ∗programming∗ not ∗playing notes∗. It never even occured to me to allow note on/off messages because that implies a whole additional layer of programming inside the unit that we are not perpared for. That is why I don't want a MIDI jack on it ∗just∗ for programming. People will automatically assume (rightfully so) that you can hook a sequencer to it. But since it has Pitch CV inputs, you can sequence it over  midi-cv.

c) Many companies make USB programming fairly easily on the HW side. FTDI, SiLabs and others have USB-to-serial chips  that have smiple interfaces and free USB support drivers for PC/Mac/Linux.

Paul S.





On Tue Sep 4 6:54 , "Tkacs, Ken" sent:


>>>
How long will all these technologies last?
<<<


Sadly, this is the best argument for MIDI, in my opinion. Personally,
I'm no fan at all of MIDI for SysEx and things like that... I find it to
be a real bear. The last time I had any fun with transferring patches to
& from my synthesizers was using Sequencer Plus Gold (DOS).

But when you consider that PC interfaces come and go so quickly, perhaps
at the end of the day MIDI really is preferable to USB, &c.






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