[linux-audio-user] Looking for howto to control audioplayer with footswitch

[Russell Hanaghan]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:57, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:17 +0200
> Jürgen Schöneberg <jschoeni at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > hej!
> > 
> > I 'm looking for a linux software to play soundfiles controlled by
> > a footswitch on the serial port. (just possible to control start, rewind, 
> > stop) .
> > 
> > Usually I'm using jack/ardour but haven't seen the possibility to use a 
> > footswitch to control the software.
> >  
> > Even a howto for using a footswitch as an input device for a perl script would 
> > be very helpful.
> > 
> > Any ideas?

I do this in Ardour but with midi. I use an old Digitech RP10 guitar fx
processor with midi capabilities. I can use program change data (either
0 up to 127) and if I assign midi to a fader, it sees it as a level. So
127 = loudest and 0 = off. Not the intent of PC midi but works anyway.
There are cheap midi foot controllers out there. I use the volume pedal
on CC 10 and assign to one fader in the Ardour mixer for live use.
> 
> I don't have a howto, but some thoughts:
> 
> reading the serial port is probably provided by the /dev/ttyS* device files.. read up on the serial tty driver in linux. Then i suppose you can use std file processing in perl [i dont use perl, but i heard it's rather complete :)]. The last thing you need is a file player which can be remote controlled. Either just launch aplay processes from the perl script, or use xmms remote controlling for example..
> 
> Regards,
>  Florian Schmidt
> 
>