"Thomas Bishop" wrote in
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Syntrillium is giving away free Red Rovers if you buy the boxed
version of Cool Edit Pro. They've also cut the price from $129 to
$49. I guess it wasn't selling as well as they had expected. I'm
glad I didn't buy one a few weeks ago when I was about to.

Sweet. Red Rover is sort of a niche product, but it seems also like a very
good product. I think most people ignore it becuase it doesn't have faders,
and that's what they need most. SOmething with real knobs and faders - they
don't mind mousing around for clicking on 'play' and 'record.'

Regards,
Mark

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"Bill Thompson" wrote in message
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Mark T. Wieczorek wrote:

"Thomas Bishop" wrote in
:
actually, it isn't all that sad at all... I use it constantly and I love
it. It's an autolocator for the PCG!

Now if I weren't so lazy I'd teach all my other apps to listen to it!!!

Can it? If it could work with others I think they'd sell a lot. But I
figured the whole point was to make it proprietary to get people to use Cool
Edit.

Ricky W. Hunt wrote:
"Bill Thompson" wrote in message
actually, it isn't all that sad at all... I use it constantly and I love
it. It's an autolocator for the PCG!

Now if I weren't so lazy I'd teach all my other apps to listen to it!!!

Can it? If it could work with others I think they'd sell a lot. But I
figured the whole point was to make it proprietary to get people to use Cool
Edit.

This is one of those theory vs. practice things... in theory it is
simply sending data to, and receiving data from, the USB port. So in
theory it shouldn't be all that difficult to get it to talk to another
application.

In practice, the only application that would be anywhere near easy would
be Sonar from Cakewalk, since they have an SDK for the control surface
interface that is either available publicly, or available at no cost by
registering... I don't remember which, but I do remember reading through
the SDK documentation, and everything one would need was pretty much there.

My problem is I am not only lazy, but also cheap, and I can't justify
buying the M$ development environment for one little projectG!

Bill

Bill Thompson wrote:

Ricky W. Hunt wrote:
"Bill Thompson" wrote in message
actually, it isn't all that sad at all... I use it constantly and I love
it. It's an autolocator for the PCG!

Now if I weren't so lazy I'd teach all my other apps to listen to it!!!

Can it? If it could work with others I think they'd sell a lot. But I
figured the whole point was to make it proprietary to get people to use Cool
Edit.

This is one of those theory vs. practice things... in theory it is
simply sending data to, and receiving data from, the USB port. So in
theory it shouldn't be all that difficult to get it to talk to another
application.

In practice, the only application that would be anywhere near easy would
be Sonar from Cakewalk, since they have an SDK for the control surface
interface that is either available publicly, or available at no cost by
registering... I don't remember which, but I do remember reading through
the SDK documentation, and everything one would need was pretty much there.

My problem is I am not only lazy, but also cheap, and I can't justify
buying the M$ development environment for one little projectG!

Bill

There is a non-MS compiler suite called DJGPP which may (or may not)
work for this.

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Hi James,

This is indeed cool news. Except I can't find the downloadable compiler
on the M$ web site... any hints?

And if you run across the rest of the info I'd be grateful as well!!

Thanks,

Bill

James Perrett wrote:
Bill Thompson wrote:

My problem is I am not only lazy, but also cheap, and I can't justify
buying the M$ development environment for one little projectG!

Bill


I read somewhere that the actual compiler part of M$'s Visual Studio is
available as a download on their web site. The same article also
mentioned a development environment which was available free which used
this compiler. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the
development environment and I haven't been able to come up with the
right combination of search terms to find it in Google.

Cheers.

James.

James Perrett wrote:

Bill Thompson wrote:

My problem is I am not only lazy, but also cheap, and I can't justify
buying the M$ development environment for one little projectG!

Bill

I read somewhere that the actual compiler part of M$'s Visual Studio is
available as a download on their web site. The same article also
mentioned a development environment which was available free which used
this compiler. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the
development environment and I haven't been able to come up with the
right combination of search terms to find it in Google.

Cheers.

James.

FWIW, there is a gcc available as part of a package called DJGPP. I
do not think it does full Windows development, just console apps -
although I don't know why having the appropriate .dll files and
..h/.hpp files available would prevent full on Windows programming
ala Petzold.

I've used DJGPP only for console apps. Works good.

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Les Cargill