[Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Karnauskas N1UW
I brought this idea up over a year ago. I can now die a happy man. http://www.dh1tw.de/disc-jockeys-influence-on-sdr 73 and Happy Holidays Frank N1UW ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/lis

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Frank Karnauskas N1UW wrote: > I brought this idea up over a year ago. I can now die a happy man. > > http://www.dh1tw.de/disc-jockeys-influence-on-sdr Oh, very definitely! Perfect control surface for PowerSDR! -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Ca

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
This idea has surfaced lots of times since the earlier days of the SDR-1000. Nice that somebody has actually followed it up. Once again, a demonstration that a radio interface can steal quite a bit from the couple of generations' worth of accumulated knowledge in the design of interfaces for music

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Larry Rappaport wrote: > Seems like this would be greatly facilitated by a standard interface. I > followed the link and it seems very interesting, but he doesn't speak about > how he actually did it. I have no idea about how it's done, but if there > were a st

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Now THAT'S cool! jim KQ6EA On 12/19/2010 04:41 PM, Frank Karnauskas N1UW wrote: > I brought this idea up over a year ago. I can now die a happy man. > > http://www.dh1tw.de/disc-jockeys-influence-on-sdr > > > 73 and Happy Holidays > Frank N1UW > > > >

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
Can you say 'MIDI'? It was designed exactly to capture fairly complex gestural information from multiple sources, in quasi-parallel. There are skillions of control surfaces that will emit programmable sequences of MIDI messages. Every OS one might care about already has capabilities for receiving

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Frank Brickle wrote: > Can you say 'MIDI'? It was designed exactly to capture fairly complex > gestural information from multiple sources, in quasi-parallel. > > There are skillions of control surfaces that will emit programmable > sequences of MIDI messages. > >

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > MIDI makes sense for this. I have always liked the idea of MIDI for the > control inputs. It strikes me as much better than HID. Among other things, MIDI makes it preposterously easy to pre-record arbitrarily hairy sequences of control operat

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Frank Brickle wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Brian Lloyd > wrote: > > > MIDI makes sense for this. I have always liked the idea of MIDI for the > > control inputs. It strikes me as much better than HID. > > Among other things, MIDI makes it prepostero