Derek, I like the cavalier treatment of electrical reality as "just another signal processing block". Probably works with any of those old pre 90s volume pedals that are just basically a log pot wired to a jack socket. Tom Schouten who I met at the Pd summer school showed how to wire up controller pots to Pd through USB using a $2 pic. You could pretty much connect anything up as an input device for very low cost.
start that here https://packets.goto10.org/
and choose one or more of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer
these look fun http://www.ejenterprises.tv/ http://www.bandajamoncrudo.com/theturntable.html
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:55:59 +0200 derek holzer derek@x-i.net wrote:
Hi Wade,
I was hoping for a midi footswitch that can can operate like a pitch-bending wheel on a keyboard, and/or a rotating pad like a turntable that I can interface with PD somehow. Just using MIDI keyboards and audio input signals to control syntesis is kind of
limiting.
I use a simple expression pedal (Behringer makes one for about EUR 25), and run [noise~] out one of my Hammerfall HDSP channels through it and back in, then use [env~] on the other side to see how much the pedal attenuates. This works quite well for my purposes. I usually assign this pedal to either a channel gain or some kind of filter parameter. Seems like this would cover what you want out of the midi footswitch you describe (except the center divet on the pitchbend wheel).
What would be even better would be if someone can point me to a kit I could build myself that I could hook up to a variable resistor, like a pan-pot, that could interface with PD in a continuous way (obviously there would be some sampling rate involved).
- Arduino
- MultiIO by Christian Klippel
- Doepfer also makes some MIDI kits
- hack a USB joystick and replace the joysticks with a suitable pot
- check some of the "sensors" threads on this list for other ideas
You're right, though, there should be a page somewhere on this stuff!
best, d.
thewade wrote:
Hello again my favorite list!
I am wondering if there are any human interface devices that provide a continuous amound of control, like Ms Pinky does for Max?
I was hoping for a midi footswitch that can can operate like a pitch-bending wheel on a keyboard, and/or a rotating pad like a turntable that I can interface with PD somehow. Just using MIDI keyboards and audio input signals to control syntesis is kind of limiting.
Has anyone here hooked up Scratch or Ms Pinky to PD?
What would be even better would be if someone can point me to a kit I could build myself that I could hook up to a variable resistor, like a pan-pot, that could interface with PD in a continuous way (obviously there would be some sampling rate involved).
Lastly, in the future is there a resource somewhere I should check first before asking questions like this here? I didn't see anything at puredata.org on this...
Thanks everyone! -wade
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