We have been working in the background on the software to initially support Ableton and Logic. Once we are happy thats its working 100% we will run a kickstarter. More info will be released towards the end of September all going well.
You can have a sneak peek at out our unreleased promo video here:
As far as I’m aware, it’s still under development. This project is a very challenging one IMO, rather than throwing out a new Universal Midi Controller on which you will still have to do some mapping to be “universal” and work with most plugins & DAWs, I think they are trying to achieve a smoother integration using only the common & more relevant controls for soft-synths plugins. The idea behind it is to be able to switch from i.e Sylenth to Diva and still have your oscillators, filters…etc available at your fingertips on the USR-1 without doing any further mapping. The way Midi is implemented between different soft-synths & Daws make this really challenging, I know that some other developers gave up similar projects.
That how I picture what’s going under the hood, but yes, would be good to have some news from @phil_Johnston about it, I will try to ask
This would be absolutely amazing - but I think they should develop it solely for use with ANA 2 - rather than be a jack of all trades…
So many people would be interested in a software instrument that had it’s own dedicated controller - best of both worlds and IMO ANA 2.0 sounds as good as hardware so all it’s missing is some dedicated buttons / knobs and sliders!
@bryan_spence thanks for the update. I think you were dead on with the need for this project. There is a massive increase in the number and demand for soft synths without any real way to control them.
I hope you run a kickstarter to gauge the demand. At a $300-400 price point you will hit your goal immediately.