Thanks, everyone. And thanks, Nils, for the link to Doepfer, one of the ideas that I had for building a controller is pretty much already up there.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I am also working on another project in building a hammer dulcimer, so I think this PD controller project is going to be in the planning stages for a few months at least.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>But the ideas that I have are to create a bank of sliders, where each slider controls one of the granular synth parameters. One thing that I want to be able to do would be to store "presents" that would allow for the quick changing of all the sliders at once. I had also thought about the idea of creating a small set of sliders that could be used to control different parameters, with the setting of a switch, but that might be difficult to deal with, as the values currently stored in those parameters may "jump" when a controller is switched over and the slider produces a discontinuous level.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I guess I just need to see other peoples controllers in action.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>Mike</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM, nils <<a href="mailto:nils@c60.ca">nils@c60.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've been playing with the arduino lots and it makes it really easy to<br>
build your own controllers from whatever, light sensors, old joysticks,<br>
wiichucks. And it's cheap =). The wiimote-wiichuck combo seems to have<br>
some real potential since you can control the equivalent of 10 knobs and<br>
4 buttons with two hands. If you're looking for midi controllers, I'm<br>
fond of doepfer, I bought a few pocket control's (16 knobs) 5 years ago<br>
and they really can take a beating, they also have a fader version and a<br>
rotary version now too, and I believe they sell you just the logic board<br>
on it's own for you to wire whatever sort of electrical device to. The<br>
monome devices also look pretty entertaining.<br>
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Mike McGonagle wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>><br>
> Over the past few weeks, I have been looking at building a controller<br>
> for myself, but was curious what other sorts of things others are<br>
> doing with alternate controllers. What controllers are you using? How<br>
> are you using them to control your programs? Has anyone considered<br>
> putting together an "Alternate Controllers for PD" page?<br>
><br>
> I am just curious if I should build my own, or just use an existing<br>
> controller...<br>
><br>
> (Also, Hans, the other day you posted about a new controller you have,<br>
> but I can't find the email... What was that device?)<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
><br>
><br>
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