On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Frank Karnauskas N1UW <n...@gokarns.com> wrote: > Much good discussion on this. Thank you all for your online and offline > feedback. > > One point I want to make clear about the two links I provided: > > I am not specifically recommending either of these two devices. I offer > them as examples of the more compact, more feature deprived types, more cost > affordable options that exist. As I said there are almost unlimited options > out there...at least a couple are bound to be applicable. > > > I read that two manufacturer's, M-Audio and Digi, did arrive at some > standardized "control language" so their control surfaces would be usable > with many software products. The iCUE device is obviously mapped to their > proprietary editing software.
Perhaps. But virtually all work surfaces are MIDI devices which means you move/turn/push a control and it generates a standard MIDI sentence which transmits a code that identifies the control and a second code that indicates where it was moved. It would probably not be all that hard to hook in a table that mapped MIDI controls to various radio functions thus allowing anyone to get a work surface and map it any way they wanted to. The code would need to be written once but after that anyone could grab any MIDI controller, change the mapping file, and use it to control their radio. > Note, too, that some of these have built-in audio chains as well as the > desired USB interface. Those with the audio chains are either not suitable > candidates or the audio circuitry can be considered a "throw away" feature. Right. Don't need the audio part, just the MIDI part. > This exhausts my nearly non-existent technical knowledge on these matters. > Tim says the hooks are already in the SDR software. It's up to the rest of > you big brain guys to connect the dots...if they can be connected. Oh, they can. Personally I think this would be an ideal answer to the, "it ain't a radio if it ain't got no knobs," crowd. Even funnier would be something like the front panel from a K3 controlling PowerSDR. That would be a hoot! ;-) The point is, once you provide that standardized work-surface interface, i.e. MIDI, you can do pretty much anything insofar as providing physical controls for PowerSDR is concerned. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
