[LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

[Carlos Sanchiavedraz]

Really nice, it's a pitty... windows only.

There are other projects related to webcams:

http://airguitar.tml.hut.fi/whatis.html
http://www.billaboop.com/

This last one is really nice.

Thanks Peter.

2009/10/11 Peter Geirnaert <peter.geirnaert at gmail.com>

>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Carlos Sanchiavedraz <
> csanchezgs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi dear folks.
>>
>> I would like to do some kind of a survey to know about configs, setups,
>> controllers, etc that you have come to over the years and based on your own
>> experience. (Well, I already know some of yours for your mails on the list)
>>
>> It's usual to see piano keyboards and controller boards, i.e. Behringer
>> BCF/BCR2000 or FCB1010.
>>
>> But more than this kind of consumer products, which I know many of them,
>> I'm rather interested in something like (inexpensive and) strange MIDI
>> controllers, pedal boards, Arduinos, DIY HW... that allow controlling and
>> have interaction with applications, whether it's Ardour, Rosegarden,
>> Freewheeling, Sooperlooper, Pd, Supercolider, Mixxx ...
>>
>> Why this? I've been willing for a long time now to buy an audio interface
>> with MIDI and maybe some controller, but at the moment I'm still stuck with
>> just my keyboard and mouse; it's ok with DAWs but an inconvenient when using
>> live loopers (most of all when playing guitar, and without a MIDI
>> interface).
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> --
>> Carlos "sanchiavedraz"
>> * Musix GNU+Linux
>>  http://www.musix.es
>>
>
> Hi Carlos,
> There's a GPL v3 project on Sourceforge for using a webcam as midi input,
> pmidic <http://pmidic.sourceforge.net/>, unfortunately it's only available
> in a windows version though the programmer planned to do a linux version
> too.
> (I'm friends with him on facebook and it doesn't really look like he's
> gonna write one soon, but when I said I wanted to write the linux version ,
> he liked it, too bad I can't program well enough to finish the job.)
> I played with pmidic for a while (on a windows xp setup IIRC) and could
> make my synth produce a low bell when I walked to the left of the camera
> field and a high bell when walking to the right :) That's been a while, I
> don't remember the problems when I tested it using wine but it didn't work
> for me.
>
> Looking forward to see anything that comes up from your quest ...
>
> Peter
>



-- 
Carlos "sanchiavedraz"
* Musix GNU+Linux
 http://www.musix.es
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