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--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, Chris Muir <cbm@...> wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Gary Chang wrote:
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> I can appreciate this aesthetic, but I'm not sure I would like to use  
> it. The immediacy of a piece of dedicated hardware can be really  
> great. I find knowing that "this physical thing does that" a good  
> thing. Having the synthesis functionality split between some hardware  
> and software running on a general purpose computer has the potential  
> to take me "out of the moment," I think. I also seem to function  
> better with some limits, but that's probably just me.

I am not talking about a system that splits your attention between the panel and screen - just to use a pc instead of digital guts behind the panel.  Of course there are numerous stories of older systems that are door stops due to video chips (Buchla 700 Series) or other rare components no longer available.  This is becoming increasingly common (my friends at Apogee Electronics mentioned a while back that sometimes they consider that buying used old Apogee product on Ebay so that they could have spare parts for some of their older devices still in use).

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> I do run a system where the note-level stuff and the gesture-level  
> stuff is running on a computer. These get transmitted over MIDI. I can  
> see wanting to use something like Volta to improve this bandwidth, but  
> there would have to be more channels of this data than is currently  
> available with existing interfaces, and it would be nice if there was  
> a standard for representing this sort of data.

Volta has no limit to the number of interfaces employed for cv and gate outputs - I am using 12 outputs, but I could employ another interface to expand the system.  Although it is not limited to MOTU interfaces, one could run one or several 24 i/o MOTU pci interfaces for maximum output density.

Also, it does a rather good job of taking various other typical DAW functions such as automation and outputting them to control the modular....
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> OSC is close, and I have hope for HD MIDI, should it ever see the  
> light of day.
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> - C
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> Chris Muir
> cbm@...	
> http://www.xfade.com
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