[LAU] hardware midi control--footswitch? or Jack audio transport

[Len Ovens]

On Wed, June 19, 2013 4:37 pm, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, June 19, 2013 9:30 am, Rusty Perez wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> If this seems like a stupid question, it's because I'm very new at this.
>> Is there a way to control the jack transport system start/stop with a
>> hardware controller or footpedal? I want to control jack, thereby
>> controlling other jack aware applications which do not have
>> implementations of start/stop via midi.
>
> USB keyboards are cheap (I'm talking about the qwerty kind). Inside is a
> tiny circuit board and lots of switches. Figure out the lines that go to
> the space, left arrow, right arrow (or whatever you think would be
> useful). Most programs will deal with key strokes. If you want it to be
> separate from your desktop KB there are ways of doing that probably in X
> or use a raspberry pi and run netjack and jack_transport or
> jack.transport... Or no jack at all on the pi and just have it ssh into
> your computer and run jack_transport.


BTW, for extra points add some rotary encoders and SW and make a mixer
controller.

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Len Ovens
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