Re: Mixer units
Re: Mixer units
- Subject: Re: Mixer units
- From: Bob Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:27:08 -0500
Hi,
A lot of this comes down to having a model that people are comfortable
with. The longer it takes to figure out the presentation the worse the
user experience. Frustration is not a good thing.
When I sit down with a good old analog mixer I expect to have:
1) Pan pots - both for stereo and mono sources
2) Trim pots on each input
3) Mute and solo switches
4) Basic tone adjust
5) Aux sends and returns
If that stuff isn't there on my shiny new mixer I'm going to wonder
what I spent my money on.
I think the same thing applies to the software equivalent of the box. A
quick look at any number of analog boxes will give you a feature set
that they pretty much all have. Each feature cost them something to put
in there. None of them came for free. They put them in there because
that's what people needed and used. When they left them out people
complained or bought another brand.
The software "toolkit" probably will have the same sort of market that
the analog mixer did. It's a building block that more or less does the
same thing. You use it to as part of a setup. In the end they should
look a lot alike.
Enjoy!
Bob Camp
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 08:23 PM, Robert Grant wrote:
My problem is that a hosting app should provide a nice place for
mixing the output. If the mixer can't pan or balance stereo sources
then we should have a way of getting mono output from every music
device. I can't imagine attempting to do a mix by leaping to 20
different stereo devices and fiddling with each of their individual
pan controls on 20 different custom GUIs. Does that sound practical to
anyone else? As an example many Reason users take the individual outs
from the ReDrum and route them into the ReMix even though the redrum
has a stereo output and pan controls for each drum sound because the
ReMix gives them better and more consistent control.
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