Steinberg - EUCON. Why are you ignoring Avid users?

cubace · November 18, 2018, 2:22pm

ResonantMind:

cubace:

ResonantMind:

Just curious, does/would Avid support Steinberg controllers?

Controllers should be independent of daw, it should be based on standards. Yamaha has a great resposibility since they are part of the standards specification on midi. But dont drive the market, they prefer to be on the proprietary corner with Nuage. Avid or I should say Euphonix before they ware bought by avid had some speaks on AES with that as a topic. A AES standard would be great!

Well the irony there is that Euphonix was talking about this and then sold themselves to Avid…

Eitherway, I’m not entirely sure all controller should be independent of DAW. that needs to be left up to the company. Some controllers should be specifically designed for specific DAW for utmost stability, and it also protects the company from their controller being trashed because it doesn’t work with so and so program by so and so company that they have no control over. And then it becomes a thing of who is responsible to fix. Does the other software company writ their software to always work with that controller, or does the controller company always have to update their hardware firmware every time software is upgraded by their competitor? And some of these companies might intentionally sabotage compatibility.

So it’s hard to get companies to agree to standards. MIDI is a rare existence in that context, problem is, it has never been upgraded because it is such a standard.

Have you not heard about the new thing? It’s called internet, it is purely based on open standards. It might be something, check it out!