Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- GAmoore@... wrote:
> If it were 
> only midi connections, then what good would a node
> be? You can hook up multiple 
> computers with midi already - maybe even PCs & Macs
> running different programs 
> (Logic, Cubase, Performer, etc.).
> 

I know that when acting as a node, the audio transfers
over ethernet, but if you have mac only software that
you could control over midi, the $500 mini mac is a
pretty cost effective way to run it.  For that matter,
the audio units interface is well known, I've never
looked into it, but I'm betting that it wouldn't be
all that difficult to make a standalone app that just
instantiates audio units plugins and lets you control
them via midi.  It seems like the kind of thing that
probably already exists, but if not, it probably
wouldn't be that hard to generate, either.  It could
even be possible, with a bit of work, to make the
logic specific audio units run standalone in such a
system, although that is almost certainly a violation
of the license.  Useful though.  I'm not much of a
reverse engineer, so that one might be a bit of a
stretch.  Still, I do almost all of my work in virtual
instruments, and my PC is a dinosaur, so a cheap box
for layering up virtual instruments would be damn
useful to me, even outside of the context of a logic
node, and it could live under my 43" DLP DVI tv,
acting as DVD player, digital audio box, and as
occasional midi instrument box (controlled via
bluetooth keyboard and mouse), not to mention a MUCH
cheaper computer to risk taking to a live environment
than my powerbook, and sufficient for the live virtual
instrument playing I do. Lugging a monitor around
would suck, I suppose.

Regardless, I'm merely justifying the overwhelming
urge I feel to buy a computer I totally don't need,
just cause...

--sam



		
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