5 May
2017
5 May
'17
11:23 a.m.
On Fri, 05 May 2017 09:42:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
Digital control surfaces are everywhere and it's a
bit strange that in
the Linux DAW world they cannot make it through to the hardware.
Hi,
you could mix a song using a control surface and/or automation of
software such as Ardour. There unlikely is a reason to use a control
surface and/or automation for hardware monitoring, hdspmixer allows to
save and load as much presets as you want, 8 presets are available even
without loading.
A lot of Linux hardware issues are caused by the missing support of the
hardware vendors. However, what you want to get is already an issue, due
to the differences of audio interfaces, even if the vendor should
support Linux.
You expect the recording software to use the audio interface's mixer
"like this", but if "like this" shouldn't be supported to
"fallback to
that".
An AIO solution, bundled software + hardware could provide what you
want to get, in a professional way. I doubt this would work very good,
if software needs to care about what ever audio interface should be
connected.
A compromise might be to control the DAW mixer and independently to
control the hardware mixer, too, IOW something like hdspmixer
controlable by MIDI events. Do a lot of people need it? If so, is
somebody willing to add MIDI to e.g. hdspmixer? EQs, Reverb and delay
would be nice for the hardware monitoring, too and indeed, proprietary
software for a lot of audio interfaces provide this. If it's provided
by the vendor of your audio interface for Windows and/or Apple
platforms, you should ask the vendor to support Linux, too ;).
2 Cents,
Ralf