Amaury wrote:hoffman2k wrote:To prevent legends and gossip...
Gives us some solid facts!
Or just quote one of my hundreds of speculations and answer with "warm" or "cold".
Well, solid facts... history is solid; I can tell what happened to something I saw from close. But I did not yet learn to read the future.
Warm or cold? Well, that depends. Let me ask: is it warm or cold today? I bet we'll get different answers from different people.
best,
Amaury
OK I love this sort of thing, making wild guesses and looking back later to see how close you were to the truth. Here's mine.
Live is built on the concept of stability and performance. Pluggo, Cycling 74's VST/AU plug in that allows users to make plug ins in Max/MSP is pretty cool, but not always stable, and not always the best way to use Max/MSP. Rewire is what? 7 years old or more? In OSX you can use IAC MIDI, and Jack or Soundflower to run both Max/MSP and Live with a bit more flexibility than rewire.
My guess is Ableton and Cycling 74 are implementing a way to seriously glue Max/MSP and Live, including MIDI manipulating objects designed specifically for this.
NI's Kore 2 just announced that it will allow users to drop Reactor MIDI sequencers into any track with any instrument or FX plug in, inside Kore. Ableton and Cycling just might be working on a way for users to write their own MIDI plug ins in Max, and drop them in Live like they were Live's own MIDI plug ins. Expand that to the audio side and things are looking interesting.
Sure, you can do a lot of what I'm talking about here now, but it takes serious time, every time you do it, it's not a matter of creating a device in Max/MSP and simply dragging it from Live's browser next time you want to use it.
Anyway, this, if implemented would kill.
ANY OTHER subtle hints???? Was Roger Linn there by chance with his mpc slicing source code? Bob Moog came out of hiding to make a VST? Programmers with buttons on saying BRING BACK THE EDIT BUTTON?? Did they ask you to try out the new Slicer???
