[linux-audio-user] Raton

[David Baron]

This is a cute applet. Now for the next step: MagicBaton for Linux! This is 
somebody's trademark so call it Raton-Conductor.

MagicBaton was a MIDI conduction program for Windows 9*, marketed as a game, 
from Japan. One used the mouse to actually conduct MIDI playback. Not as easy 
as it sounds, even with the in-the-air gyro-mouse I bought for this purpose. 
I saw potential in this, however, and suggested a more serious program. 
Apparently, there is one in Japan. One correspondant on their site actually 
used the program for choir rehearsals.

So how would Raton-Conductor work? Again, not as simple as it sounds. 
Minimally, one would move the mouse in a ecliptic (or circular) motion (as 
suggested by MagicBaton's instructions for beginners). The size of the 
vertical diameter (or average diameter) would be the volume/expression and 
tempo or time-codes set by the change in vertical direction from down to up. 
Real conducting patterns are more complex but these two principals would more 
or less remain.