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At 6:38 PM -0800 11/8/01, Kevin Goldsmith wrote: >I was wondering if anyone is planning on something similar [to a >Nord Micro Modular] for MIDI only. It'd be great if I could >download MAX-like MIDI patches into a small box so that I could >remap controllers and what-not in performances. That's what I was hoping the Opcode Studio 5 was going to be, and I was very disappointed when I got my beta unit and it couldn't do that. Nevertheless I've found that the patching and remapping functions of the Studio 5 can be useful, and it allows remapping on the fly simply by switching between programs. Unfortunately the Studio 5 doesn't have multiple inputs for switches and pedals, so you'd need some other interface to provide conversion from these physical controllers into a mappable MIDI stream. Also unfortunate is the fact that the Studio 5 is two rack units tall. The Studio 4 could work, and it is only one rack unit, but as I recall it can hold only one patch in its internal memory at a time (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Possibly the most compact system would be a Powerbook running Max, a small MIDI interface, and some basically dumb MIDI floor controller that has a sufficient number of switches and/or pedals. All the mapping could be done in Max. An older Powerbook would be sufficient. I've bought several for under $100 each on eBay. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz