MadScience: Griid Connector & Lemur

[Joe Soap]

It ought to be possible for Lemur to establish a connection to Live 8 through the GC no?

The thought occurred to me as I lamented my lack of funds to purchase M4L . . . "Wait a minute - why should I even have to?" Don't get me wrong, I'd love to run out and buy it right now - but it strikes me as quite a heavyweight requirement to get the two-way dynamic communication that Mu, Griid, Kapture Pad enjoy.

So that's my big(gish) idea for the day - can we approriate the GC for this task - or can someone hack the thing to make it so?

[edit: further thoughts]

So supposing this were possible, the next logical step would be to build a module or three to take advantage of the functionality so they could be dropped into the sorts of heavily customised setups people build around their own Live Sets . . . ie: RheyneLooper / RheyneJammer.These musings are born out my own frustration in trying to reconcile general usefulness with the current need to set things in stone when building control setups that address specific Sets (in Live).

Basically a cry for help!

[Joe Soap]

Hey folks . . . even if someone can chime in to say "you're clearly off yr meds . . . this is folly - just get M4L FFS!" . . . no worries!

I'm not foolish enough to think this is an easy task to accomplish, it might not even be possible - Griid may (probably does) contain quite a bit of code / logic that Lemur can't emulate.

In the end, I think what we really need is Griid functionality / modules folded into the Lemur product by Liine themselves, though having Ableton Live-specific features in their general-purpose app may go against the grain, I think it'd be fitting for the flagship product. But then, I would, wouldn't I?

Not holding my breath . . . roll on the next big Ableton / C74 sale!

And hoping this has at least been food for thought to the more serious and skilled hackers out there in Lemurland.

[Joe Soap]

Clearly an uninteresting idea judging by the volume of response!

So I just said fu*k it . . . and got M4L.