Thanks, everyone. And thanks, Nils, for the link to Doepfer, one of the ideas that I had for building a controller is pretty much already up there.
I am also working on another project in building a hammer dulcimer, so I think this PD controller project is going to be in the planning stages for a few months at least.
But the ideas that I have are to create a bank of sliders, where each slider controls one of the granular synth parameters. One thing that I want to be able to do would be to store "presents" that would allow for the quick changing of all the sliders at once. I had also thought about the idea of creating a small set of sliders that could be used to control different parameters, with the setting of a switch, but that might be difficult to deal with, as the values currently stored in those parameters may "jump" when a controller is switched over and the slider produces a discontinuous level.
I guess I just need to see other peoples controllers in action.
Thanks again,
Mike
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM, nils <
nils@c60.ca> wrote:
I've been playing with the arduino lots and it makes it really easy to
build your own controllers from whatever, light sensors, old joysticks,
wiichucks. And it's cheap =). The wiimote-wiichuck combo seems to have
some real potential since you can control the equivalent of 10 knobs and
4 buttons with two hands. If you're looking for midi controllers, I'm
fond of doepfer, I bought a few pocket control's (16 knobs) 5 years ago
and they really can take a beating, they also have a fader version and a
rotary version now too, and I believe they sell you just the logic board
on it's own for you to wire whatever sort of electrical device to. The
monome devices also look pretty entertaining.
Nils
Mike McGonagle wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Over the past few weeks, I have been looking at building a controller
> for myself, but was curious what other sorts of things others are
> doing with alternate controllers. What controllers are you using? How
> are you using them to control your programs? Has anyone considered
> putting together an "Alternate Controllers for PD" page?
>
> I am just curious if I should build my own, or just use an existing
> controller...
>
> (Also, Hans, the other day you posted about a new controller you have,
> but I can't find the email... What was that device?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
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