[LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

Carlos Sanchiavedraz csanchezgs at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 12:24:50 EDT 2009


Hi,

2009/10/11 Renato <rennabh at gmail.com>

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:36:55 +0200
> Carlos Sanchiavedraz <csanchezgs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi dear folks.
>

[...]


> Hello,
> I'm very interested in this topic too - I think that the signal
> processing power of modern pcs is totally useless (for live playing)
> if you don't have an effective/intuitive way of controlling it. At the
> moment I'm working on two routes:
> 1)Supercollider - it can get inputs from any HID (btw I've
> heard also Pd does) and easily , and totally customably, convert it to
> midi. I've used rig kontrol 2 from native instruments (pedal board
> without builtin usb-midi), a bluetooth mouse and a joystick to generate
> midi notes and controls... I've controlled with these rakarrack,
> jack-rack and freewheeling. It's a good start, but right now I'm
> looking at processing sound directly in Supercollider to have the
> controls more integrated in the effects (and to have overall more
> control on effects)
>

Well, it seems I should give a try to Supercollider in the near future :). I
only ahve experimented with Pd and CLAM.

About HID2USB I know also this project:
http://1010.co.uk/avrhid.html



> 2) Arduino with the the ttymidi library, which is an arduino library +
> alsa midi app which, very easily, gives you the possibility to create
> midi from within the arduino code, then you simply route ttymidi's out
> to any midi in you desire (in qjackctl for example). Have to say that
> at the moment I'm having some trouble with this library, though I count
> on getting it working (it was a few months ago).
>
>
mmm... Really good news that ttymidi. Maybe with this I could have one
keyboard as a keyboard itself and another acting as a MIDI keyboard in such
a way that I can play on this last one right at the strong beat (really hard
when you are alt+tab-ing all the time) and trigger to record a loop with a
key on the other, i.e. on Freewheeling.


> For the moment I've experimented much more on 1 than on 2, but I'm
> planning on building some kinds of controls directly on my guitar and
> I might use Arduino for that (or I could hack a bluetooth
> keyboard if I find one cheap)
>
>
I'm really interested on that control-guitar thing, so please keep me
informed about. Maybe I could help in some way.


> In this setup I actually don't need a sound card with MIDI (though I
> have one) - HIDs and Arduino are USB. I know it's possible to make
> Arduino send Midi on standard Midi plugs/cables, but why bother when
> there's ttymidi.
>
>
Yes :)

I really appreciate your info.
Greetings, Renato.

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