[linux-audio-user] question about "kontroll"

Dragan Noveski perodog at gmx.net
Sun Oct 1 14:17:02 EDT 2006


Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Saturday 30 September 2006 20:46, Dragan Noveski wrote:
>   
>> hi to the list,
>> i just compiled "kontroll", just to see what it can do.
>> reading the stuff at the homepage, the README etc. i dont find what this
>> appi actually does (and how).
>> can somebody give here a short explanation, which is more practice-related.
>> i am trying here to do sth with zyn and kontroll, but no success.
>>     
>
> It queries the mouse position and sends midi signals based on that. If your 
> mouse is in the upper left corner of the screen it will send a 0 on both 
> configured controller. If in the lower right, it will send 127. So the X-Axis 
> of the mouse is mapped to one controller and the Y-Axis to another. 
>
> Upon user request i added OSC message sending support. Which basically does 
> the same thing, but it's a bit more configurable.
>
> So basically it's a way to use your mouse as midi controller source :) 
>
> A possible use scenario would be to control i.e. the cutoff filter frequency 
> of an analogue synth. Just find out which midi cc the synth listens to for 
> the parameter you want to adjust with and assign that to one of the mouse 
> axis in kontroll.
>
> It's a very very simple app. But useful for me and maybe others :)
>
> Have fun,
> Flo
>
>   
ok flo, thanks for the response, i ll do more "experiments" with this.

cheers,
doc



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