Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] the ICube and Linux
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang.uni-essen.de)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 00:24:09 EEST
ardour, quasimodo, icube...
wow. talk about multi-threaded programs, here you have a
multi-threaded hacker :-D
i just wonder, paul, do you do cooperative or pre-emptive
multitasking ?
don't let anybody add conditional reschedules to your sleeping and
eating functions ! :)
jörn
Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> Just a quick provisional announcement, since its not finished yet, but
> I couldn't wait to rave :) Last night and today, I wrote a Gtk-- GUI
> for the Infusion Systems ICube MIDI sensor system. Its modelled almost
> exactly on Infusion Systems' own Windows editor.
>
> For those who don't know, the ICube is a digitizer that lets you plug
> in a large variety of physical sensors generating analog signals, and
> maps the signals to MIDI in various ways. Mine arrived yesterday, and
> I was saddened to discover that it is useless without an editor (which
> of course, is provided only for Windows and MacOS). I therefore did
> the honorable thing: after griping to Infusion Systems, I got down to
> writing a Linux editor for the beast.
>
> The MIDI implementation specs are incomplete, so right now it doesn't
> manage to get the ICube to stream MIDI data based on the sensor
> values. However, it does program most aspects of the ICube, and allows
> you to read the sensor values by polling.
>
> I'm looking forward to building some custom "instruments" with this
> new MIDI controller(s). I'll make the source available to anyone who
> asks, and will put it on sourceforge once its fully operational.
>
> --p
-- Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr. 49 45138 Essen, Germany http://www.folkwang.uni-essen.de/~nettings/
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