*Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart fromkeyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot pedal, asingle foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface over USBthe number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.*
Yeah, I'm guilty of that, I've been buying a couple of these http://www.audiofront.net/MIDIExpression.php
You can plug in any footswitch and it works plug and play as MIDI via USB. It's nice cause sometimes you need a big controller just so you can use the footswitch/expression input, and actually most of cheap MIDI gear won't have it, or maybe just one. Yeah you can do stuff with arduino and plug them in it I suppose, but I'm just lazy with arduino - guess you can build the switches easily too (even lazier with that). So I might end up with 4 of these someday :)
cheers
2014-08-25 7:00 GMT-03:00 Ingo ingo@miamiwave.com:
Back then (90's) I had racks of synth that needed to be connected both ways to software editors and sequencers, many MIDI controlled effects, Eqs, routers, etc. All connectd both ways for editing.
I had to connect two MIDI interfaces with 8x8 in/outs. All of those used to have their own port.
I wasn't using Pd at that time, though. Nowadays most synths got replaced by plugins and only the controllers need to be connected by MIDI (or MIDI over USB).
Since the majority of the DAWs don't understand anything but MIDI and neither do most musicians understand anything more complicated than MIDI I'm assuming that MIDI will stay for quite some more time.
Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart from keyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot pedal, a single foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface over USB the number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.
Instead of connecting one arduino that can handle 30-40 sensors each controller uses its own MIDI interface.
Ingo
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On 2014-08-24 22:07, Ingo wrote:
In the good old days (90's) I would have never made it with less than 16 MIDI in/outs ...
hold on.
since MIDI has 16 channels, does that mean that you had actually a need to address 256 channels?
i understand the need to plug many devices, but i don't really see why you cannot plug them into a single (logical) port.
there must be simple "midi router" software for each major platform available.
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