This may be something others are doing but I havent seen it so I thought I would share.
Ive been experimenting with using touchOSC and Osculator to control things other the music gear. So far (all of this is on iPad )Ive made a qwerty keyboard with custom shortcuts, opening finder window sets, new finder windows in specific places, computer shutdown and a bunch of other things..and of course all my music software..anyway..
in my day to day work I use Audio Finder as my sound fx search engine and it allows me to look up/go through sounds and spot them into protools. This is great but I found myself using the same set of sounds for specific transitions all the time and it got tiring to have to leave protools for a sec, go to Audio Finder, find that sound and then back to protools..I know it doesn't sound that bad but doing that for 30 news type packages a day..
So heres what I did. I created a "sound bank" of about 80 buttons in TouchOSC. Then I wrote an applescript that goes to a specific folder(my SFX folder) and selects a specific sound, then imports that into Audio Finder. Audio Finder then selects that sound and spots it into protools, clears it from its bin and hides.
I just add this script to each button and change the sound accordingly. Now I don't have ego leave protools to go to my most used sounds. Just push the button of the sound I need and it pops into protools.
Like I said, I don't know if anyone is using it this way but I though it was an improvement in my workflow so thought it was worth mentioning
Ive been experimenting with using touchOSC and Osculator to control things other the music gear. So far (all of this is on iPad )Ive made a qwerty keyboard with custom shortcuts, opening finder window sets, new finder windows in specific places, computer shutdown and a bunch of other things..and of course all my music software..anyway..
in my day to day work I use Audio Finder as my sound fx search engine and it allows me to look up/go through sounds and spot them into protools. This is great but I found myself using the same set of sounds for specific transitions all the time and it got tiring to have to leave protools for a sec, go to Audio Finder, find that sound and then back to protools..I know it doesn't sound that bad but doing that for 30 news type packages a day..
So heres what I did. I created a "sound bank" of about 80 buttons in TouchOSC. Then I wrote an applescript that goes to a specific folder(my SFX folder) and selects a specific sound, then imports that into Audio Finder. Audio Finder then selects that sound and spots it into protools, clears it from its bin and hides.
I just add this script to each button and change the sound accordingly. Now I don't have ego leave protools to go to my most used sounds. Just push the button of the sound I need and it pops into protools.
Like I said, I don't know if anyone is using it this way but I though it was an improvement in my workflow so thought it was worth mentioning