Cool Music Technology
Yamaha and Steinberg (both music companies -- Steinberg is a music software company, Yamaha has a large Musical Instrument division) have teamed up to create
Studio Connections
From their website:
Studio Connections is a joint project lead by Steinberg and Yamaha. There is now a situation which demands a closer integration between software and hardware in a music production system. The aim of Studio Connections is quite simply to offer a more convenient environment that will make using hardware and software easier.
There has always the need for users to endure setting up parameters between the hardware and software separately. But now at last with Studio Connections there is the ability for Total Recall, a seamless solution where setup and recall issues are now a thing of the past, and where users can operate the hardware as if it were a plug-in within their software.
In order to encourage further developments and to expand the possibilities of Studio Connections, there is now available the (SDK) development tools. Developed solutions a re also offered to the industry, in order to further support an easy to use computer music system.
In plain english, when you turn on a synth, it usually wakes up in a default state or the last state it was in when it was turned off. If you want to play a specific song, you will need to change this state to one specific for the song.
There are software tools that do this but they are separate from the composition and sequencing applications.
What Studio Connections is doing is giving you a way to set up your synthesizers from within the composing and sequencing application -- the data is stored right along with the music. Cuts out a lot of fiddling and makes the overall workflow a lot faster.
They are releasing the core specifications and SDK to the general public so other companies can implement this.
Very cool idea and kudos to them for making it available to everyone...
Posted by DaveH at November 9, 2005 8:13 PM