Re: It had to be tried...
Re: It had to be tried...
- Subject: Re: It had to be tried...
- From: "James Chandler Jr." <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:23:24 -0500
Hi Robert
Congrats, iMIDI sounds like a cool concept.
A "slight expansion" on the concept, either Firewire or Gigabit ethernet,
might have some commercial money-making possibilities for some programmer
smart enough to write dual-platform audio/midi drivers...
Have read that big-time studio and movie music cats are adopting arrays of
computers. Perhaps use a Mac as the central control/recording computer, then
a farm of slave computers running softsynths like GigaSampler.
I use a "poor man's" version of that, running Digital Performer on a G4 and
slaved softsynths on a PC.
It seems silly to equip each computer in with expensive MIDI/Audio
interfaces. Wiring nightmares.
My G4 uses a 2408 audio and MTPII MIDI iface. The PC has an inexpensive
Terratec ADAT-only card that also has a couple of MIDI ports. MIDI gets
passed back'n'forth via the MTPII MIDI interface routing features, and audio
gets passed up to 8 channels via ADAT lightpipe connection between the
Terratec and 2408.
But that still seems like an arcane overly-elaborate way to get it done. If
there were Firewire (or Gigabit ethernet) cross-platform audio/midi drivers,
the slave machines wouldn't need any MIDI/audio hardware.
Just connect a Firewire or ethernet cable between the computers, and only
outfit the master computer with Audio/MIDI interfaces.
It would be real cute if the driver had a setup panel, so you could tell the
driver how many audio/midi channels to emulate. Just set up a single MIDI
cable and stereo audio if that's all that is necessary, but with the click
of a mouse promote it to 16 cables of MIDI and 16 stereo channels of audio
if necessary.
Software running on the computers would work the same as usual, since the
Firewire/ethernet drivers would look just like any other audio/midi
interface to the software.
A G4 driving a little rack full of Xserve rack macs would be a cute studio
setup (GRIN).
James Chandler Jr.
_______________________________________________
coreaudio-api mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/coreaudio-api
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.