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A nice app : any computer input into midi or OSC

Archive · 2008 2 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

angstrom ·

Hi all, I've been playing with an excellent app this week, it can natively take input from keyboard, mouse, trackpad, joystick, game controllers, nintendo wiimote, voice recognition, etc, etc. and it can turn those inputs (via script) into a variety of midi, OSC, or just control the computer windows and peripherals.

The app is GlovePIE , so named because it was originally a scripting tool for hacking a gamers glove. http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

I found it because there has been lots of interest hacking on the Wiimote , from the nintendo Wii, to send midi and OSC.

So far I have been using a USB forcefeedback joystick to open and close filters and having the synths send forcefeedback data back to the joystick.

I have been using keyboard commands to create user interface pages in Ableton Live. Using 'virtual desktop scrolling'

and a lot more.

for some more background here are a couple of threads on the Ableton forum. I should point out that for the wiiMidi hacks you only need the cheapo handset, not an expensive box. The handset is around €20 I have heard. Personally I am happy hacking my various other USB and voice control devices.

Wiimidi rocks, try it and the more general ... use anything as a MIDI / OSC source

and if you are interested in some more hacking for the cheapo Wii controller then you should really see what this guy has done

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

especially "Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote"

GaryG ·

GlovePie is a nice piece of software for sure, I worked with it while playing with the idea of alternate midi controllers (thummer layouts etc.).

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