Is there any way you can

[evil^milk]

Is there any way you can take a digital VST plugin, such as this one:

And link its many knobs and sliders to an actual physical board so that, when you moved that knob on the physical board, its digital counterpart also moved in accordance to the physical movement you did in the physical, real knob?

The reason I ask is that moving around things knob by knob is a stultifying thing and is akin to drawing a digital image with a mouse instead of a tablet.

What hardware would you go about doing this kind of stuff? A mixing board?

 

[Qonfused]

Yep you can. Depends on the program, but all you'll need is a MIDI control surface like this or a keyboard control surface like this.

 

[evil^milk]

Omg
Thanks

 

[evil^milk]

Do you use one?

 

[Vegeta897]

I'm pretty sure he has the Oxygen 49.

I have the Xboard 49.

 

[evil^milk]

You know what, I probably should've gotten a synthesizer rather than a full key digital piano. Prolly would've saved some munz and gotten both things.

How do you find using hardware with DAWs works out for you? What other equipment is indispensable when making electronic music?

 

[Vegeta897]

If you're making music on the computer, midi devices are all that's necessary really. And ASIO drivers. Unless you're talking about recording shit, in which case you'd need a pro audio card and probably a mixer/mic preamp.

As for making music without a PC, that's really open ended. A mixer is basically the only essential device in that case, assuming you're going to have more than one device making sound (synth and a drum machine, for example)

 

[evil^milk]

Could you, for example, make a setup of:

A synthesizer
A midi controller
A mic

and plug these three devices into one mixer, which can be hooked up via USB?

 

[Vegeta897]

There are USB mixers, yes. But you wouldn't plug a midi device into a mixer... Midi devices do not produce audio. Midi devices control software, or other devices.