Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I've wondered if ctrlr was a better approach than jsynthlib for editing 
patches - I think both suffer from being completely reliant on people to 
implement support for each synth. no way around that I suppose.

frankie

On 19/07/13 17:56, steve_the_composer wrote:
> This is an update of a post from almost 3 years ago. Somehow I recently
> stumbled onto a panel for ctrlr for the EOS Sampler. So I thought I'd
> check it out. I spent several days trying to make it work without success.
>
> Perhaps some people have gotten ctrlr to work, but despite my best
> efforts (and you know how I can stay with something I am tackling), I
> cannot get ctrlr to do even simple things properly.
>
> Its a shame, because now that I see what the goal is--a tool for people
> to design panels (for standalone mode and vst mode) to control hardware,
> I think it might be useful somewhere down the road.
>
> Maybe I will stumble onto something that prompts me to revisit ctrlr in
> another few years.
>
> Steve
>
> To be fair, the source forge site has 50 people giving it the top rating
> (5 stars) with no one giving it anything less. So perhaps its only me
> that has problems with it.
>
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com <mailto:xl7%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
>  >
>  > It looks like someone has created a forum using the name CTRLR
> focused on midi hardware/software. It looks like it is still in
> development. The "About" page had nothing in it when I took a look
> earlier today. There is some info in the "News" section which seems to
> indicate that the person doing this site has made some earlier attempts
> and is still working out the bugs. It also seems that the News was
> geared towards people who already knew about the previous efforts rather
> than new people.
>  >
>  > My own personal preference is to participate in sites which address
> specific gear, software, and musical genres I am interested in. If the
> new site develops a targeted focus on the large issues related to
> controllers, I might be interested somewhere down the road. If its going
> to be fragmented (various controller issues related to all the various
> gear and software that's out there), there will probably be much more
> that I am not interested in at the site.
>  >
>  > Unfortunately, the site is not terribly focused at the moment, and I
> am not sure I have the time to help the developer create something that
> doesn't duplicate what's already available.
>  >
>  > Thanks for calling this site to our attention. If you will be a
> participant over there, you might want to refer E-Mu users to the
> various Yahooo groups dedicated to E-Mu hardware.
>  >
>  > Steve
>  >
>  > PS: Since the site seems to be linked to source forge and track,
> perhaps the developer has a vision of building an open-source software
> community to work on software which integrates all software and hardware
> that uses midi. To me, this might be a very worthwhile thing to have.
>  >
>  >
>  > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com <mailto:xl7%40yahoogroups.com>, Matt
> <somatt@> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > what is it?
>  > >
>  > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:29 AM, nicoliukko <nicoliukko@> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > > > if you show your support in this thread
>  > > >
>  > > > http://ctrlr.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=259&p=1454#p1454
>  > > >
>  > > > it will happen :)
>  > > >
>  > > > edit: the forum have had some errors the past days, but keep on
> trying
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > >
>  >
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