i want to do a versatile daw-controller, using max and jitter as mediator between various physical controllers and the DAW. Because of large sets of parameter-data to transfer, i want to avoid midi.

My question is if there is already an external, which handles communication with eucon -enabled software (logic, sequoia, nuendo, etc) and provides an path-system similar to m4l.

As the eucon protocol is tcp-ip based, it should be possible to access the transferred information. Also eucon itself is organized in some object-oriented way, which makes it suitable for using it via max.

Advice for doing this on my own is also welcome.

Greetings,
Christoph

A::R:

Here’s someone who seems to have it working:

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2010/10/euphonix-mc-mix-und-maxmsp.html

Avid has not released the EUCON protocol publicly since acquiring Euphonix, although they continue to hypocritically describe it as “open”. As suggested in the first post, it would be theoretically possible to sniff the TCP or UDP packets if one was motivated enough. I’d guess it’s highly unlikely that EUCON lacks some form of encryption, however – making this a non-trivial effort. It’s a shame, it’s a very promising control protocol.

For those wanting a cheap high resolution controller you can actually run the Behringer B-Control units in 14-bit mode. The build quality is low but at that price you may be able to afford two… MIDI latency will still be an issue.

Thanks for your patch, but I actually wanted communication between Max and Eucon-enabled Software, not the Euphonix-Hardware-Controllers (though they are sexy).

If you want to control lots of DAW-Parameters, you need a protocol faster than Midi ( eg. Mackie Control). The MIDI-Bus is simply to slow and the acces methods for querying and setting parameters are too limited.

Maybe we can flashmob avid or so in the future :-)
Greetz,
Christoph

Did you have success already?

I am wondering if I can control the Metric Halo through Eucon from MAX/MSP since it seems more versatile then the mackie control option.

Best, Hans.