Avid, please license eucon to third parties

[klaukholm]

Avid, I would gladly pay good money for a license to use my third party controlsurfaces with eucon.

For now we are mixing less and less on our protools system due to the severe limitations of HUI.

Unless things change soon, we will entirely bypass Protools in the next 5.1 mix room.

[SOUNDDECISION]

Originally Posted by klaukholm

Avid, I would gladly pay good money for a license to use my third party controlsurfaces with eucon.

For now we are mixing less and less on our protools system due to the severe limitations of HUI.

Unless things change soon, we will entirely bypass Protools in the next 5.1 mix room.

Out of curiosity....which software and which consoles are you using?

[M-ManLA]

Logic, Pyramid, Cubase, All these already have EuCON support.

[klaukholm]

Originally Posted by SOUNDDECISION

Out of curiosity....which software and which consoles are you using?

SmartAV, avids own 5MC and in the next room an AWS948

Main daws are Pyramix Masscore and Protools

[klaukholm]

Originally Posted by M-ManLA

Logic, Pyramid, Cubase, All these already have EuCON support.

So does our pyramix.
My request, however, is for licensing to third party control surfaces

[M-ManLA]

Originally Posted by klaukholm

So does our pyramix.
My request, however, is for licensing to third party control surfaces

I see. Sorry to bust your bubble, but this will never happen! That is just like saying Make Intel Chipsets compatible with AMD's CPUs. It's a dumb business decision, and would make extra work for the Avid team. This is an obstacle that they don't need to face.

[klaukholm]

Avid has not closed the door on this according to some third party manufacturers., it would seem their minds are not made up.
I started this thread to convey the message to avid that there are customers that will pay $2500-5000 for this license. I am one of those.
Atleast one third party has offered to pay all the R&D as well.

The old HUI is not cutting it anymore

[M-ManLA]

Originally Posted by klaukholm

Avid has not closed the door on this according to some third party manufacturers., it would seem their minds are not made up.
I started this thread to convey the message to avid that there are customers that will pay $2500-5000 for this license. I am one of those.
Atleast one third party has offered to pay all the R&D as well.

The old HUI is not cutting it anymore

We shall see. It does seems like it can be an open platform. Why don't you post this in the Ideascale?

[klaukholm]

it is in ideascale and you are one of the only two that have voted against it...

[M-ManLA]

Originally Posted by klaukholm

it is in ideascale and you are one of the only two that have voted against it...

Sounds like something that I will do hahaha. But then again, I think of "what benefit is this to me". The only benefit I see is that Avid could charge a license fee for each license sold or ever X amount of units. The downside is more work for an already undermanned staff at Avid. Even so, why would you waste resources on that, especially now?

As I see it, everyone had a chance to by Euphonix. Someone at Avid was smart enough to say "Hey, we should try to buy that company right there". Next thing we know, we have great products on our hands. Ask me why you would use a third party controller with the interface don't make too much sense to me other than the people wants it, but if you going to spend $1000 anyway, why not buy the original? Why buy a copy? I would stick with Avid because I know that will have the best compatibility and integration with it.