Re: [linux-audio-user] Raton

From: Ernie Dulanowsky <ernst.pulsewidth@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 23:16:46 EET

What about Music Mouse (http://retiary.org/ls/programs.html)
I have had big fun with the Amiga version in the past. I haven't tried
it under UAE
yet,though.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:45:47 +0200, David Baron <d_baron@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> This is a cute applet. Now for the next step: MagicBaton for Linux! This is
> somebody's trademark so call it Raton-Conductor.
>
> MagicBaton was a MIDI conduction program for Windows 9*, marketed as a game,
> from Japan. One used the mouse to actually conduct MIDI playback. Not as easy
> as it sounds, even with the in-the-air gyro-mouse I bought for this purpose.
> I saw potential in this, however, and suggested a more serious program.
> Apparently, there is one in Japan. One correspondant on their site actually
> used the program for choir rehearsals.
>
> So how would Raton-Conductor work? Again, not as simple as it sounds.
> Minimally, one would move the mouse in a ecliptic (or circular) motion (as
> suggested by MagicBaton's instructions for beginners). The size of the
> vertical diameter (or average diameter) would be the volume/expression and
> tempo or time-codes set by the change in vertical direction from down to up.
> Real conducting patterns are more complex but these two principals would more
> or less remain.
>

-- 
"Both Rob and I see sound as shapes. 
I only have to do this (makes a fist) 
and he knows what sound I mean". - Autechre
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www.pulsewidth.ca
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