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
I keep a page of some examples:
http://at.or.at/hans/research/nime/hid/examples.html
This would be much cooler as a wiki page somewhere. I think it would
be a good thing to have somewhere on puredata.info as a wiki page.
The controller is called the gametrak.
.hc
On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:43 PM, 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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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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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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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:43:03PM -0500, 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?
Hi,
An alternate controllers page sounds awesome. Someone should get that happening on the Pure Data portal.
I wrote some software for the Nintendo DS which allows you to create dynamic interfaces on the DS touch screen and they talk back to your Pure Data patches in real time. It's pretty fun and a super-cheap way of getting lemur[1] style control over your patches. It talks to your patches over wifi and uses the FUDI protocol. There is also a ROM (FUDIKaosDS) which emulates a Kaos pad style interface on your DS. You can download them both here:
http://mccormick.cx/projects/KnobsAndSlidersDS/
Have fun!
Best,
Chris.
[1] http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php
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