Any suggestions for MIDI controllers (MacOS 9)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:56 am

Hi people,

I am currently using an Oxygen as controller, but find it to limited. What alternatives are out there (Remote 25 doesn't seem to be Mac OS9 compat.)? Also: Are there FW multichannel interface alternatives to Motu 828? I just started using Live and am tying to find out the best solution. My current problems are: with an Emagic USB interf. and an Oxygen controller i use all my USB ports on the 667 PB. If i want to use a mouse i need to use an active USB hub (fairly unreliable, too risky for live situation: first gig, PB wouldn't start up with hub attached). A self powered FW interface would be great. Is there anything like that on the market?

Greetings
Xaver

raccoonsatwork · Post by **raccoonsatwork** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:00 am

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FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:10 am

M-Audio have just announced a FW Interface at Namm. And there is another one (Prosonous?? - don't remember) but from what I've heard (and I can actually back this up now because I got mine yesterday

), the Motu works and sounds great in both OS 9 and X. ONly drawback: It's waaayyyy too big!

form.aat

billymozart · Post by **billymozart** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:00 pm

hi

if you have or can get an old roland VS 880 suddenly you'll be able to control 8 channels of track volume AND 8 channels of panning..or re-assign the knobs for other purposes...and it's not terribly noisy. the VS 1680 would give you 12 fader controllers but no pan knobs

cs2X by yamaha has six control knobs--you can assign them to do volume controls-- and is a good synth

these are more suggestions for what to use if you have it already. the roland keyboard with 8 knobs and 8 faders looks good but don't you think somebody's going to come up with something much better next month? I mean, for Live you could easily use --and really SHOULD have--24 buttons, 24 faders, and 24 knobs all in one Control Surface, without having to toggle. a mere 8 seems terrifically inadequate and not worth spening over 200$ on. end of hot air expulsion for now...