sharc wrote:I'm really looking forward to Copperlan in Scope6. Like I said earlier in this thread, I've no idea what it'll mean for BC Modular. Like the rest of you I could hazard some guesses but then I'd rather be surprised than disappointed.
Also, it's worth bearing in mind that the Modular isn't your average Scope device. You only need to look as far as Noah, ASB boxes and XTC mode to see that. So what you can do with Copperlan and other Scope devices isn't certain to apply equally to Modular.
It does make me wary of putting too much effort into certain aspects, but I'm not dreading it at all. If it somehow makes half of my work on BC redundant through doing a better job then why would that be bad? Better Control's the whole point after all.
I don´t see what the point is at all.
When there´s Copperlan embedded w/ SCOPE 6, there will be virtual MIDI ports visable in the, now "embedded" manager application which does the routing, merging, re-channelizing and such.
BC Modular will be in the SCOPE environment and profit from that MIDI routings,- nothing special except you haven´t installed a separate Copperlan manager application like you have to do up to now as also use MIDIOX for the time being.
A separate installation of Copperlan manager as well as virtual MIDI cables like MIDIOX will be obsolete later.
Now you asked which controllers we use and it´s obvious the users use all kind of available controllers, old and new and that will change continuously because new controllers appear on the market.
Copperlan doesn´t interest what´s in use, it recognizes a MIDI device and that can be also a standard MIDI interface connected to the computer.
The advantage of Copperlan and MIDI over LAN will be the higher bandwidth for simultaneously running MIDI streams, sysex info and multiple MIDI clocks available on the same MIDI bus/port.
Now, when you´ll have a modern machine running Win 7 or 8 and XITE and SCOPE 6 one day and a older machine, XP or Win 7 32Bit w/ the PCI cards,- there´s no restriction connecting both machines and only ONE set of controllers to the network switch and working w/ Copperlan as the main MIDI management & routing application.
I don´t see why Copperlan should make your work for BC Modular redundant in any way.
Be happy Copperlan will deal not only w 14Bit but 16Bit MIDI.
So, once there will be any physical controller transmitting 14Bit MIDI throughout, Copperlan will pass thru that resolution and BC Modular will deal w/ that the way YOU have in mind as a designer of BC Modular.
I think you won´t get this w/ old MIDI interface hardware, standard MIDI cables and physical DIN ports, mergers and thru boxes and all the old stuff existing still today.
Bud