|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Should I resurrect the old skunkworks hardware projects? [message #106440 is a reply to message #106439] |
Wed, 18 May 2011 16:56   |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
|
Senior Member |
|
|
| dnafe wrote on Wed, 18 May 2011 16:43 | And what would it take to get a couple of those made?
|
Time...
| Quote: | I'm assuming the C16s would interface with the computer via a midi input?
|
Yes...
| Quote: | One really dumb question is would any of the other controls, i.e. transport, solo, mute etc be usable?
Could you make one Reaper Specific?
|
All the controls would be available. At some level, they are just button presses, so you'd need to map them for specific functions in your application. I don't use Reaper, but I'm sure the buttons could be mapped for that...
http://www.parisfaqs.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Should I resurrect the old skunkworks hardware projects? [message #106543 is a reply to message #106540] |
Thu, 23 June 2011 15:49 |
|
|
The line lump solution wouldn't motorize a C16 - it'd turn the C16 into a MIDI control surface so you could mix in other DAWs with it.
The way I'd always imagined it at its most basic is a little box with three sockets - Cat5 input and output plus MIDI out - and a couple of switches. You'd plug from the C16 to this little box's "in" and then from the box's "out" to the EDS. Then you'd take a MIDI cable and connect the box to your DAW's MIDI in.
One switch on the box would toggle between EDS and MIDI operation (it'd need to be buffered in some way so as to prevent the motherboard-frying issues that can arise from "hot swapping" a c16). The other (say dip switches on the underside) would be to set the box to channelize the MIDI info it translates to a discrete MIDI channel so you could theoretically have up to sixteen C16s, each one set to a different channel.
Once again, just speculation about what it could look like, I have no idea if it'll wind up being feasible. But it'd be a pretty popular item if it were - assuming the price was in the "guitar stomp-box" range, I'd pre-purchase two on the spot the moment they were announced and I know I wouldn't be alone.
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Should I resurrect the old skunkworks hardware projects? [message #106545 is a reply to message #106544] |
Thu, 23 June 2011 16:19 |
|
|
You mean it'd have a *built-in* USB interface? Awesome! That doesn't have to mean it'd require drivers, right?
The reason I thought it would be good to have the C16 switchable between "EDS" and "MIDI" modes is for those people who want to run their DAW in tandem with their PARIS rig. Without that switchability, moving a fader will also change their mix in PARIS.
Awesome that you're looking at doing this! You're welcome to do pre-sales here if you want to, by the way. About how many units do you figure will make it worthwhile?
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The PARIS Forums
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
was to have three connectors, two RJ45s and a USB. The USB would provide power as well as communication to and from the computer. When you do something on the C-16, the signal would be sent out via both the RJ-45 (CAT5) and the USB at the same time, no mode change necessary...
