On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Hugh Sung <
hughsung@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using a presentation program called "Liquid Media", sort of like
> Powerpoint on steroids. Up to this point i had been using multiple foot
> pedals assigned to different keystrokes to trigger visual cues, like video
> clips, animated GIFs and the like, during live classical music piano
> recitals.
>
> I'd like to incorporate the dynamic capabilities of realtime visual sync,
> with the ability to easily "change the scene", as it were. i'm hoping that
> someone can help me come up with a combined solution where PD acts as an
> audio trigger controller, triggering keystroke events based on pitch ranges,
> dynamic peaks and rhythmic events, and Liquid Media accepts those
> PD-generated keystrokes to trigger correlating visual cues. Each scene
> would comprise of specific trigger-able events, and the foot switch would
> allow for a manual "change of scene". i'm hoping to accomplish two things
> with this combined approach:
>
> 1. make it a little easier to incorporate visuals synced to audio events
> 2. allow for easy scene transitions, to better compliment the "narrative"
> structure of classical compositions
>
> Hope this makes sense...thanks all for your input so far! (and patience!)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dan Wilcox <
danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As for forwarding keypresses and mouse events to an application ...
> >
> > I have done this in Windows to control FLStudio (aka FruityLoops) by
> sending menu events and keypresses through python windows scripting,
> pywinauto, and osc in python.
> >
> > I have info and code on my website. It should still work but it's a bit
> old (2006) and I don't use Windows anymore.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:05 -0400, marius schebella wrote:
> > fiddle~ comes with pd (look in the "extra" folder), there is a help
> > patch that will explain how it works.
> > hope this helps.
> > marius.
> >
> > Hugh Sung wrote:
> > > i'm not familiar with that program - can you provide a link to fiddle~,
> > > or any other program that can easily do what i'm looking for with all
> > > the various parameters?
> > >
> > > Many thanks!
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM, marius schebella
> > > <
marius.schebella@gmail.com <mailto:
marius.schebella@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hugh Sung wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, this isn't for speech recognition - i'm trying to come
> > > up with a simple way to use key triggers to activate visuals.
> > >
> > > For example: if the piano plays A440, i'm presuming PD can be
> > > configured to recognize that pitch with a microphone input and
> > > then echo out a text string - the letter "A", perhaps.
> > >
> > >
> > > in that case, you best use fiddle~. what's the other program? does
> > > it accept network communication? then you can send the letters over
> > > tcp or udp connection (netsend).
> > > marius.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hugh Sung
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Dan Wilcox
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Hugh Sung
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>
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