On 20 4 2004 at 5:07 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Well, I am definitely not a MIDI expert either. But I know vaguely that MIDI devices can be attached and made to work in concert with a master/slave relationship. I envision being able to slave a sequencer/recording device to Doggiebox (or slave DoggieBox to a sequencer/recording device) so that things like the stop and start of recording can be synchronised and automated (i.e. when I press record on my VS-1680, DB starts playing at MIDI time code point X, or something like that :)
Yeah, this is well within the realm of possibility. Delving into this further though will require a discussion of midi on a more technical level though, which is why I'm interested to hear input from anybody who has worked with midi on a quasi-low level before. As you probably know, there are various midi "commands" that run over the wire (controller change, program change, note on/off, etc). Right now I have Doggiebox sending Note On messages in real time as playback occurs, which does as the name implies -- triggers specified sounds to play. As we move into more esoteric realms though, like changing sections or triggering events on external hardware, I need to figure out what kind of MIDI events we should be sending/listening for. (e.g. does your deck listen for a particular Controller Change event to signify "start recording", etc.)
I suppose maybe one could add a hook so that double-clicking the icon opened the image in the app of the users selection (like a helper app). That seems as far as one would possibly need to go there.
That's a cool idea actually, will look into it. -b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca