[LAU] Mixers and Free Software (was Open Sound Control: Is it still a thing?)

[worik]

Robert pointed out I should make clear the use I am looking for is live
mixing. 
I am getting bullied to buy a Behringer XR18.  It is totally dependent
on software to control it.  Does any body have any information about the
nature of the interface?
I can find nothing useful on the web
W

On 1/05/21 9:48 am, worik wrote:
> On 27/04/21 7:30 pm, Peter P. wrote:
>> * worik <root at worik.org> [2021-04-27 09:23]:
>>> Vaguely Linux Audio related
>>>
>>> Is Open Sound Control still a thing?  Was it ever?
> I realise I put a silly subject on my email, so I changed it.
>
> I need to get a mixer, primarily  for mixing live bands.  At least
> sixteen inputs, preferably more, into stereo or more channels. 
>
> I would like to have a interface to it from a tablet and less
> importantly I would like wider options for controlling it over some sort
> of IP network (TCP/IP probably).  There are a lot of nice products
> available, but it is hard for me to tell if the software and protocols
> are ones I can use from my own software.   I feel a bit like a babe in
> the woods!
>
> I am price sensitive, and I am not the only decision maker.  It is hard
> to make non technical people see the danger in a piece of equipment
> whose main control is a app on a iPad.  I want to be using it in five
> and fifteen years from now.  We will look after it.
>
> My problem is identifying hardware that meets what seem like  peculiar
> requirements to others.  Decision criteria.
>
> The background is we have a set of amplifiers we use for community gigs
> here in Ōtepoti, New Zealand.  The missing piece is a decent mixer.
>
> In this thread there have been some interesting things, a bit
> overwhelming...
>
> * Dante
>
> * I am a beginner but I think MIDI and OSC are for different things
>
> * LTC
>
> * MTC
>
> * MMC
>
> * OSC in JSON
>
> * "Rendering Engine" - Sara/DS100.  Not sure what this is...  Looks like
> more than we need, opening up possibilities we have not thought of 
>
> * Monome Norns, PedalinoMini, Step Audio, Lawo,
>
> Awesome!
>
> Worik
>
> -- If not me then who? If not now then when? If not here then where? So,
> here I stand, I can do no other root at worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804
> Aotearoa (New Zealand)
>

-- 
    If not me then who?  If not now then when?  If not here then where?
              So, here I stand, I can do no other
    root at worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand)