My career as understood in the 'industrial' world is coming to an end. I'm retiring in a few weeks after working for several computer manufacturers [Sun, HP], telephony [Wavecom, Wiz4com] and technology [GPS and contactless payments] companies and lately internet/cloud suppliers.
With an engineering background, the X32 and WING mixers were excellent opportunities for me to explore their remote controllable capabilities, first discovering [I mean it, lots of wireshark sessions] the X32 OSC remote protocol and documenting it, initially for my own needs, and it became a generally accepted resource for many. I have done a similar exploration (this time with some support from Behringer) for WING, resulting in the OSC document that is downloadable from Behringer's website, and the wapi [for WING API], an API and native accompanying documentation to create native applications.
I've been playing guitar since the age of 11, and played in different bands where my normal work took me, [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ilyblues06, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpzeJGwxsc]. I'm so glad I always have been able to continue playing all these years; Meeting great people, enjoying the [small scale] thrill of live shows, concerts, and more often gigs in bars (lots of stories there
I always wanted to build guitars and finally made my very first one, simple Telecaster, but all hand made with little support form power tools. I really enjoyed this, and the result is quite good. I'll create more guitars after building a small shop dedicated to this in Marsanne, France where I have a small music studio (see below).
-Patrick
