Re: Controlling Valves/Relays from PC

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, I wonder if you want to look at the valves available.     On/off 
is sooo 20th Century.

Joe Pluta wrote:
> Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>   
> > > Is it possible to use MIDI for this kind of thing
> > >     
> > >       
> > Thought about it some. The problem I see is that it's rare that MIDI
> > controls 192 "voices" at once. Most synths are polyphonic to a point,
> > but 8 to 16 voices is normally the max. I guess I could do it in groups
> > of 8, but there's still the question, what's the method of actually
> > controlling the valves? Still, an interesting idea, time to brush off my
> > old MIDI books.
> >   
> >     
> I've been at DevCon, so I haven't jumped into any of the cool 
> discussions about web architecture, because it takes too long just to 
> type my response <grin>.  But in this I hope I can add a little help 
> quickly.  It sounds like your MIDI experience is a little out of date, 
> Walden.  Almost any decent keyboard these days has 128-voice polyphony 
> or more.  I've seen lots of 256 and some even higher.
>
> Joe
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