[LAU] MIDI Input of LAU Applications

Hi @LAU people,

I would like to open a discussion about the MIDI capabilities of LAU
applications here.

There is quite a number of great LAU software of course and we have seen
frequent announcements of new versions or even complete new applications.

But from a particular point of view their use sometimes is a bit limited.

I have found that most applications require the user to work (record, program,
finetune etc.) from behind the computer on which the application runs. But that
limits the usability in case someone is actually playing an instrument with
MIDI interface, especially in a live playing environment, and needs something
more convenient to handle parameters etc.

I have seen few applications that allow for using MIDI commands let alone
allow me to enter a custom made (be it SYS EX message or any controller
message) MIDI message to trigger a particular action within the application.

There have been a number of hardware controllers available for some time that
come with numerous drawbars, pushbuttons and similar stuff to ease controlling
mixer applications, drum applications or anything else, so having a flexible
MIDI input interface (software) seems to me to be a really great idea.

At the moment things I would like to do force me to use a MIDI programming
language instead of using all these new fancy GUI applications with much more
and much better options apart from their MIDI support than the simple
programming environment has. I have to program nearly everything on my own.
And I find myself running against walls because there are just too many things
that simply do not work.

I wonder if noone else has a MIDI "Start/Stop" feature on their wishlist for
their favourite drum computer program, or "Fill
1/Fill2/Ending1/Ending2/Variation" etc. (which applications like hydrogen do
not yet have but they are on their way).

I wonder if noone else prefers a real hardware turning knob over a GUI mouse
slider (which cannot be moved from keyboard, as there is no MIDI controller
input for the slider...).

What do You think? Anything worth adding for You here? Is better MIDI input of
applications worth asking for?

Would like to learn more...

Regards,
Crypto.

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Received on Tue May 5 20:15:03 2009