Re: [MoAccess] Sharing Motif stuff
- From: clarence griffin <goldfingas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: MoAccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:42:06 -0400
we have a folder, Bryan started it.
GF
On Sep 14, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Vinny Pedulla wrote:
> I don't know if you all have heard about Dropbox's free promotion of adding
> 250 mbs of storage for every person you invite. The great thing is that both
> you and the person you invite get the 250 mbs of storage, after they complete
> registration and install Dropbox.
> If there are no takers, I would be willing to use my Dropbox account. Just
> curious how much space would all the files take up?
> Vinny
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Smart" <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <MoAccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [MoAccess] Sharing Motif stuff
>
>
> No one is hosting the site. It is too much work for people to do it for free.
> We have to do something simple, or else we're not going to have anything. I
> mean, I can pretty much teach myself and make my own stuff, but I'm just
> trying to help others out.
>
> I don't think that we'd be sharing all that much on the DropBox. Notes and
> manuals and instrument defs hardly take any space. If we put audio tutorials
> up there, then maybe some room would be involved.
>
> If you're using it for business, though, you should pay the $8.25 or
> what-ever per month to upgrade your 2GB to a full plan. Those have 50 or
> 100GB...something crazy like that.
>
> I don't know. You can always just not participate if it will take too much
> space, but this is all I can think of.
>
> The fact of it is, nothing happens without money. Either one of us makes some
> big central site, using our own resources and time, and hopes that others can
> chip in, or else we spread the cost around. I offer to host the folder. If
> people want to put stuff in it, then they can get on DropBox and drop it in.
> If they are new to Motif, and want access, they can pay $9 or what-ever to
> get the space from DropBox to have access to the files.
>
> I just don't see a way to do it much easier. If you know of something that
> would work better, then we should check it out. Big web sites and online
> communities are out, though. Needs to be some super simple turn-key portal,
> or file sharing thing, etc.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moaccess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:moaccess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of clarence griffin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:21 AM
> To: MoAccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [MoAccess] Sharing Motif stuff
>
> I don't know if dropbox is the way to go because if I only have the standard
> 2 gigs to work with anything in the moaccess folder will add to my usage. And
> I use my dropbox for business. I don't know if I want to use any of my
> bandwidth to put up docs that I may or may not use. I don't have an es any
> more and if I can help it, I would like to keep my es and classic stuff some
> ware else. but if I don't have room and need it, I would have to delete stuff
> from drop box folders that I am not using to make room for client work and
> what not. Is there maybe another way we can do this? What happened to the
> site, who is hosting that now?
>
> Just my thoughts.
> I hope we can come up with something that everyone can work with.
>
> GF
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Bryan Smart wrote:
>
>> I've already said on here that I have an XF. Of course, I'm already doing
>> interesting things with it.
>>
>> I've written SysEx commands that can switch it in to song mode, initialize
>> the song's mix, dump in an initialized mix with no reverb, tell the XF to
>> transmit its current mix settings to Sonar, etc. I make these and then place
>> them in to the SysEx view of my Sonar projects, particularly my templates.
>> Why is this useful? When I open up my template for sequencing with the
>> Motif, Sonar is able to put the XF in to song mode automatically, and setup
>> the mix. That saves button pushing.
>>
>> For that matter, I have Sonar templates built up for working with the Motif.
>> If you have an audio interface with a spdif input port, you can connect the
>> Motif to that, and, when you use the template, you'll get a stereo mix from
>> the Motif, via the digital spdif connection, that appears on a bus. Why does
>> this matter? You don't need to do any of that crappy process of tracking in
>> your Motif MIDI parts, at least to get a basic mix-down of your song. As
>> long as you do a real-time export, the digital output of the Motif's mix,
>> together with any existing audio tracks and softsynths, will just be mixed
>> together in to the output file. It's organized, too. When you start the
>> template, you can just start adding MIDI tracks and playing, without
>> thinking about where to route what. The templates have the SysEx setup
>> commands that I made already loaded.
>>
>> Anyway, I have other stuff. I've worked out the supported CCs and SysEx
>> commands from the XF data list, and made some other notes.
>>
>> I don't mind sharing this stuff at all. I make this stuff for me, anyway, so
>> if someone else can use it, that's great. However, I don't want to maintain
>> a site, and I'd rather not send stuff one-off.
>>
>> There are some smart people on this list. How can we share in such a way
>> that doesn't require a lot of work? I thought that we could put up a Wiki,
>> and let everyone upload to, and edit on that, but many people will never
>> bother taking the time to learn how to write and edit on a Wiki. Maybe
>> something dumb simple like a shared DropBox folder is the way to go. If we
>> have notes or recordings, or files to help, we just throw it up there. No
>> web site maintenance, no security and hackers, no long editing of sites and
>> such. If someone new joins the group, we just add them to the DropBox folder.
>>
>> There might be a better way. If anyone has any ideas, then speak up. It just
>> has got to be simple. If it takes lots of time to coordinate or maintain,
>> then it's useless.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
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>
> For links to all Motif info for blind owners, visit www.MoAccess.info.
> To change your list options and view archives for the MoAccess list, visit
> www.freelists.org/list/moaccess.
>
> For links to all Motif info for blind owners, visit www.MoAccess.info.
> To change your list options and view archives for the MoAccess list, visit
> www.freelists.org/list/moaccess.
>
> For links to all Motif info for blind owners, visit www.MoAccess.info.
> To change your list options and view archives for the MoAccess list, visit
> www.freelists.org/list/moaccess.
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