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From:
Lee Azzarello
To:
idm
Date:
Wed, 8 Mar 00 21:25:20 -0500
Subject:
Re: (idm) lets talk equip.
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Fuck yeah...badass. I'm sure we could start a cute little silicon valley startup to get New Castle MIDI gear mass produced! My MIDI can control my beer! Loving it... But seriously, I really think a hardware interface to software is the ticket. -Lee
quoted 1 line joseph fitzpatrick wrote this on 3/8/00 2:34 PM>joseph fitzpatrick wrote this on 3/8/00 2:34 PM
quoted 33 lines i think lee hit it right on here. i was going to say fuk equipment ....>i think lee hit it right on here. i was going to say fuk equipment .... >but didn't want to offend anyone. >my dream setup would be a monster - gig harddrive with speed of sound RAM >and a MIDI interface connecting all sound sources.. then, i'd have a >visual aid (MIDI triggered) for live perf. so the audience wouldn't get >bored...... and a MIDI triggered New Castle on draft so that i wouldn't >get bored.... > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Lee Azzarello <roswell@antioch-college.edu> >To: idm <idm@hyperreal.org> >Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 12:27 PM >Subject: Re: (idm) lets talk equip. > > >>Fuck, equipment. I have a korg N5 that I use as a midi comtroller and an >>Akai s2000 which I use for everything else. My computer is an old Power >>Computing mac clone from the early 90s. I run cubase on it but I can't do >>much real time processing. All this talk about outboard gear and name >>dropping makes me curious. I have been studing electronic music and >>acoustics for quite a while now and the one major realization I had is >>that a computer can do _everything_ for you (at least theoretically). The >>only problem is the shitty physical interfaces, such as roman character >>keyboards, mice, trackballs, tiny buttons. I think the dream setup for me >>would be entirely software based with nothing but knobs, faders and midi >>instruments atached to the computer. Currently I'm programing some stuff >>in Csound (I'd upgrade to jMax but my machine is too slow). With a little >>knoweldge in Csound and the possibility of jMax, I wonder why anyone buys >>retail outboard gear at all. >> >>regards, >>Lee
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