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G4 Computer Control Application

jessepjessep Posts: 8
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First, let me say I have never set my hands on G4 computer control software. I want it desperately.

Second, I have a musical client who will have a recording studio in her home. She is so obsessed with music she would like to plug in instruments into XLR connectors in the wall in her family room, somehow trigger her PC to start and stop recording, and jam out with her band. I was thinking use an mvp8400 with g4 computer control to remotely operate pro-tools or a similar recording software.

thoughts?

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  • sling100sling100 Posts: 123
    G4 Computer Control is OK, but is v tiny on a MVP8400 if you want to see the entire screen in one hit.

    I've used a piece of MP3 recording software called BPM Studio before that will respond to telnet and http commands on the usual ports. That way you can start/stop recording, adjust levels etc via simple AMX commands without any computer control at all. The monitor feed from the computer can be fed into the TP via a RGB breakout so they can still see what's going on.

    Don't know how good it'll be in a live situation though!

    Simon
  • DHawthorneDHawthorne Posts: 4,584
    I would hesitate to get involved if it were me - it seems that digital recording still requires sufficient finesse that I wouldn't want to automate it too much.

    That said, I think the best you could do is an IR keyboard/mouse sort of thing, or one of the remotes available to a high-end sound card, and launch your apps and trigger the recording through that. I know the Soundblaster XFi series offer a remote you could certainly capture; Soundblaster isn't exactly the top end of computer sound, so others must offer it as well.
  • ericmedleyericmedley Posts: 4,177
    I'm an audio engineer. In my experience I would not do this. Give her a KVM extender and call it good. You will not have a very good time using computer control from a touch panel.

    This is one I'd walk away from.

    best of luck
  • the8thstthe8thst Posts: 470
    ProTools can be controlled via MIDI interface and it works pretty well at the simple jog, start stop, punch in/out, fader level commands, etc.

    The three things that the MIDI interface won't do is launch protools (but I am pretty sure that can be done over IP with applescript), choose a file to open or name a new file, or display the computer screen on your computer.

    I know you can get track names, song names, the clock counter, and most of the buttons via MIDI, but you cannot add tracks, delete tracks, name tracks, edit waveforms, etc.

    A solution that may work is to create a batch file on the Mac that you can trigger through applescript. This batch file would copy and rename a protools template with the current date and time and then use the new file to launch protools. The rest could be done with the AXB-MIDI interface (assuming it works well).

    If the studio is built and setup by someone that is qualified and very familliar with studio setup and design, I would not hesitate to automate it via MIDI.
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