[PD] PureData patches/hacks

[Kyle Klipowicz]

Oh and one more thing. You need to turn on the polling by clicking the green
toggle box. Otherwise hid will not poll your device of choice.
~Kyle

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, hid provides very comprehensive documentation and debugging tools that
> you can use for this.
> Open the hid help patch (you can find this easily by creating an [hid]
> object in a blank canvas and then right clicking (ctrl+click on mac) and
> selecting help. This patch will be very useful to probe the data sent from
> various devices.
>
> Next, click on the message box labeled [print( and look at the output in
> the Pd console. You will see a device list that numbers each device starting
> at 0 and also gives a brief description of the device.
>
> After you find your device of choice, click on the radio button
> corresponding to it's number, or if you prefer send a message [open n( where
> n is the device number that was printed in the console.
>
> Now that your device is loaded by hid, try giving it some input and
> observing the various number boxes and toggles to get a feel for the range
> and style of output that your device offers.
>
> I hope this helps! Happy hacking.
>
> ~Kyle
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>wrote:
>
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>> You might be able to get that info using [hid].
>>
>> .hc
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>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Andrew Martin wrote:
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>> Hey there. Not sure where or who to direct this to, but I recently watched
>> a video tutorial on youtube on how to modify your laptop's trackpad into a
>> MIDI-control device much like a Korg Kaossilator:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWE2ptQtYk0. Apparently the creator of
>> this video created a patch to create this device, but the according to him
>> it only works with Synaptics track pads. I'm running a newer aluminum
>> macbook with a MultiTouch track pad, and was wondering if anyone has figured
>> out a way to get absolute positioning information, and possibly multi-touch
>> info as well, into Pd to Midi notes in appropriate scales. Any kind of help
>> would be appreciated, as I'm trying to get my music rig set up to be
>> super-fly.
>>
>> Andrew Martin
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