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 PMquoted 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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