Re: [LAU] Something like "midicontroller" GUI for OSC?

On 9/23/07, Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:11:30AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2007 schrieb Ken Restivo:
> > > My M-Audio Axiom 49 just died. And I have four live shows scheduled next
> > > week (Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday). I don't have time to get
> it
> > > repaired, and I can't afford to replace it.
> >
> > Too bad. Maybe you can rent one from a local music-shop?
>
> When I'm losing money, I usually fold. This time I tried something
> different: I "doubled down".
>
> I bought a Novation Remote 61 SL. Under *warranty*.
>
> It rules.
>
> The UI on this thing is AMAZING. It's got two 2x256 character LCD displays.
> It's *verbose*, designed for people who understand and remember words better
> than numbers. Very clear. I counted a total of 78 fully-assignable
> buttons/knobs/sliders/rotaries/pedals.
>
> It also seems *much* better made than any of M-Audio's cheap plastic crap.
> The keyboard action feels like a 1980's-era Roland or Yamaha synth.
>
> >
> > > To get me through these shows, I can borrow a MIDI keyboard, with just
> keys
> > > and no buttons/knobs/sliders, which means I'm going to have to build a
> GUI
> > > myself to use on the laptop or touchscreen for controlling parameters.
> > > PD is a natural for this, but I like GTK widgets better. And the PD
> sliders
> > > might not be big enough for touchscreen use.
> >
> > The pd-sliders are not fixed in their size. Just open the properties and
> make
> > them bigger (first two entries on the top if I remember correctly).
>
> Thanks. I also discovered GriPD too.
>
> But now that I have the Novation, I'm going to concentrate on getting that
> running.
>
> >
> > > Is there anything like this "midicontroller" app that uses OSC instead?
> >
> > I think I will have some kind of OSC message sending app in ofqf[1] for
> the
> > next release...
> >
> > Arnold
> >
> > [1] http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=ofqf
>
> Nice, thanks!
>
> Also, I'm finding the stuff that Lars is working on with dbus, to be
> intriguing too.
>
> My fantasy now is a keyboard controller that has a control surface and
> keyboard much like the Novation, but has an 10/100/1000 Ethernet, WiFi, or
> BlueTooth interface instead of MIDI or USB, and communicates using dbus
> and/or OSC natively. The advantage is that you wouldn't need weird SysEx
> hacks or proprietary software in order to make use of the "automap template"
> feature that the Novation does. A keyboard like that could run off of a
> Gumstix running linux, so it most definitely will get developed by someone,
> someday.
>
> Actually, now that I think of it, instead of knobs/buttons/sliders, a
> 640x480 touchscreen might be a better bet, and multitouch once the price of
> those comes down.
>

I was going to suggest Khagan, despite it's lack of recent releases
it is the tool for just this job. Input to OSC And if you've got a
graphics tablet it is pretty cool. http://khagan.berlios.de i thought
it was not that handy so the project is pretty dead.

Loki
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Received on Sun Sep 23 04:15:03 2007