crazy midi controllers
do you know of any ckckckrazzy midi controllers?. c'mon. share the groovy concepts
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmidic/
JAZZMUTANT
Lemur
control surface
$2,495
PROS: Amazing response. Infinitely
configurable. Beautiful interface. Instant visual feedback. It's much
better than knobs or sliders.
CONS: Expensive. Software still in
development. Not all bugs have been ironed out yet. Few commercial
music programs support the Open Sound Control communications protocol.
FEATURES 4
EASE OF USE 3
DOCUMENTATION 4
VALUE 3
MANUFACTURER
JazzMutant/Cycling '74 (distributor)
www.cycling74.com/products/lemur.html
I want THIS for Xmas!!!
(Not really a midi controller... but I saw it on Australiens and thought you'd dig it!)
They don't seem real pricey, either... imagine a few of 'em on rollerskates!
WOOH! PARTEEEEEEE!!!!
MIDI Driver
MIDI Driver online documentation...
BETA download available NOW!
| Requirements: | Windows 98 / ME / 2K / XP DirectX 8 or above Pentium-II or better w/128MB RAM DirectInput device Soundcard w/MIDI support MIDI device(s) |
Screen Captures:
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No need to buy an expensive MIDI foot controller for your
keyboard, sound module, or MIDI-enabled effects pedal - just use the hardware you already have!
MIDI Driver allows you to use any DirectX-compatible game controller - such as racing pedals, flight pedals, or
a joystick - to control your MIDI equipment.
Once you've configured MIDI Driver for a device, you can even export your configuration and swap it with others.
http://www.livelab.dk/touchpad2midi.php
ouchpad 2 Midi is a free VST plugin for Windows that allows you to use the
touchpad on your laptop as a midi controller.
The touchpad can be configured as:
- An XY pad
- 4 sliders
- 4 Buttons
At the moment only Synaptics touchpads are supported - we are working on adding
support for USB touchpads as well, but have not yet heard from Cirque / Adesso
regarding how to read raw data from their touchpads. Some laptops use Alps touchpads
these are unfortunately not supported either - Apls have been contacted.
Hey... was this what you were gonna use to try hook up that joystick thingo the other day? (the one that only had WIN98 drivers)
If not, what were you gonna use? I got inspired after getting my keyboard all configured, and d/l'd the pmidic, but it's still in its early stages, and won't seem to work right... :?
(I'm gonna use a "Logitech Wingman Pro" if I can get this shit working)
>11 buttons, plus directional input, all easily accessible in 1 hand!
If not, have ya heard of any other suggestions? I can't seem to find any...
PS- that "fireballtrailers" link is fooked!
Toriton Plus: Water Surface as MIDI controller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9LQHazTRg
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2006/11/toriton-plus.html
t is really very easy. I do not claim to be an electronics professional, or even know anything about anything. The laser shines through the water in the dish, and LDR's on the other side respond to the position of the laser points (whether they are fully on the LDR or not).
By using a voltage divider for each laser (that is where the 100K? resistors come in), the physical interface can see changes in voltage (as opposed to just resistance, as caused by the LDR's alone). The LDR connects between ground and the analog in channel. The 100K? (pot) or similar connects the analog in channel and +5V. That is it. Repeat for all five or six lasers.
I saw this thing in action by Andromeda at "The Awakening 1"
http://www.animazoo.com/products/gypsyRmidillo.htm
Integrate a Gypsy “arms-only” gear with eXo MAX/MSP and you get a GypsyMiDi. This totally new midi instrument is absolutely quantitative but can also set triggers. Analogue channels can be set to control any midi channel. A MAX/MSP program environment allows GypsyMiDi channels to be set to midi and calibrated and connected to any off-the-shelf- software, MAC or PC.
and a pretty similar one...
http://www.synthzone.com/bsynth.html
The BodySynth
Applications
Transform your body into a musical instrument.
Become a multi-media controller.
Modulate sounds from your existing instruments or audio tracks.
Become a Cyber Controller as you send commands to your computer.
Biofeedback! Learn about how you move as you hear yourself move.
The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
More information:
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable ...
here's a bit from the australiens thread that I first heard about this on...
>This looks like an incredible tool - check it out:
http://pmidic.sourceforge.net/
What it sounds like is (or at least 1 application), you point a laser pointer at your webcam, this program converts that into X, Y and Z midi data, which you can then send to anything (ie Ableton) and assign to anything.
I can't wait to get home tonight and download this app. If it does what I want it to do I'm definitely going to use it in live sets using my lappy's inbuilt webcam.
>Hi all,
This is Ben...the creator of said program. Just to clarify, the laser pointer technique that a friend of mine tried out involved pointing the laser at a blank wall, and pointing the camera at the wall, as opposed to shining the laser into the webcam. Furthermore...I would suspect that with that technique, you wouldn't get a Z value because the area of the dot would be almost the same the whole time.
- Ben X
fuck you all. 
Using your Driver's Licence as a MIDI controller
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R-Bow
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midi controllers
check the website.......fuck the website
YAY!!!
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