Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Peterson
Afraid I can't be of any help, but I *did* want to share two of the coolest controllers on the planet I've found: http://www.shipdriver.com/ and http://www.raildriver.com/ These are for simulators and hobby use, but admit it -- they're a hoot. If there were only a way to make these work

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Lyonel Bernard
Hello, Some other controllers - http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836/ - Arduino - Raspberry Pi ? 2013/2/27 Alan Peterson apeter...@radioamerica.org Afraid I can't be of any help, but I *did* want to share two of the coolest controllers on the planet I've found:

Re: [RDD] Performance in a LAN environment

2013-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Alessio Elmi wrote: Going back to original post... do you think configuration 3 is possible? Would it give any benefit? I'm doing it. I have a client who runs his automation systems at his transmitter sites (one AM and one FM). There is a third Rivendell system in his

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Andy Sayler a...@wmfo.org Might this kind of situation to which Postel's Law applies: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others? Probably, but there's a codicil, due originally to

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote: Is anyone doing Rivendell in a Box? Everything, all the way to a shoutcast uplink, inside a single PC? I may try it shortly, but I don't know JACK. Rob ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread drew Roberts
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 22:06:48 Jay Ashworth wrote: Is anyone doing Rivendell in a Box? Everything, all the way to a shoutcast uplink, inside a single PC? If so, have you found a decent, and not horribly expensive, mixer control surface with, say, start and assign buttons? I don't mind

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Fernando Della Torre
I have done some Rivendell Boxes for streaming. All ina box, Rivendell, Audio Store, Mysql, jack, Jamin, edcast or darkice and shoutcast/icecast, ready to relay. They have been working smoothly, specially edcast. Darkice tends to have problems when used over jackd. Atenciosamente, ** **

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Alan Peterson apeter...@radioamerica.org Afraid I can't be of any help, but I *did* want to share two of the coolest controllers on the planet I've found: http://www.shipdriver.com/ and http://www.raildriver.com/ These are for simulators and hobby

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Rob Landry 41001...@interpring.com Do not be *too* liberal in what you accept, lest you encourage people to misbehave and push the costs thereof onto you. I am tempted to ask what would Jesus code, and if he would have his computers turn the other

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Nathan Steele
If you can use MIDI to accomplish your goals, there are any number of controllers availible, from cheap to obscenely expensive to DIY, like these www.ucapps.de I've built some of the stuff there and it's great, and has come a long way in the last couple years too, NO usb when I was working on

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Nathan Steele
The APC's are not straight forward to use with software other than ableton from what I understand. I asked around about that because it would have been great for my lighting software. apparently they are not class compliant midi interfaces. Something was mentioned about starting ableton up

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com If you can use MIDI to accomplish your goals, there are any number of controllers availible, from cheap to obscenely expensive to DIY, like these www.ucapps.de I've built some of the stuff there and it's great, and

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Nathan Steele
standard MIDI CC's are 7bits (0-127), NRPN's are 14 bits, and a little more complicated to use being composed of two 7 bit Bytes. not sure if the Nanocontrol supports NRPN's. I can check for you later tonight, I have it at home. Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread James Harrison
On 27/02/13 16:23, Nathan Steele wrote: standard MIDI CC's are 7bits (0-127), NRPN's are 14 bits, and a little more complicated to use being composed of two 7 bit Bytes. not sure if the Nanocontrol supports NRPN's. I can check for you later tonight, I have it at home. On a similar theme

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: James Harrison ja...@talkunafraid.co.uk On 27/02/13 16:23, Nathan Steele wrote: standard MIDI CC's are 7bits (0-127), NRPN's are 14 bits, and a little more complicated to use being composed of two 7 bit Bytes. not sure if the Nanocontrol supports

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
This is *perfect*, obviously, but a) it's probably $3k, and b) you probably can't buy it solo. http://198.106.245.236/remora.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
Here's one that looks *very* nice: the Vestax VCM-600. $850 discount off $1300 list, but mid 5's on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=vcm-600 and a large control panel view: http://www.musikland-online.de/pix/download/vevcu253942/Vestax_VCM-600_USB_Controller.jpg That panel has

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Peterson
You'd probably need only 1/3 the features that controller offers. In the heat of battle, mixing for radio needs to be a lot simpler. Admittedly, I am inspired by that Leo Bodnar USB Joystick circuit card suggested by Lyonel Bernard. I have an old Sparta five-pot mixer shell that has been

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Alan Peterson apeter...@radioamerica.org You'd probably need only 1/3 the features that controller offers. In the heat of battle, mixing for radio needs to be a lot simpler. Channel fader, start button. That seems easy enough for me. Everything else is off

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-27 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 27 February 2013 11:59:08 am Fred Gleason wrote: There's some additional context to it as well: arguably, the situation Postel was attempting to address was fallout from vague or ambiguous standards.  It is not uncommon with such to have two or more compliant implementations of