thewade wrote:
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).
The attached schematic shows the simplest way I've found to make a MIDI interface. The PIC 16F88 has 7 analog channels (pins RA4-0 and RB7 and 6) that could be interfaced to potentiometers of less than about 10kilohms for 10-bit resolution. If you have access to a PIC programmer I can provide the code in an open-source way.
Martin