The pedals basically operate as programmable usb keyboard extensions, where you can custom assign any keystroke to any pedal (up to 12). I'm hoping that by assigning a certain set of keys to the pedals and reserving the rest for PD to control that everything can simply work together, if PD can output keyboard letters/numbers. Everything would run from the same computer. Again, please forgive me if i sound completely ignorant regarding what's possible with PD...<br>
Many thanks again!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Andrew Turley <<a href="mailto:aturley@acm.org">aturley@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The [fiddle~] and [bonk~] objects should let you capture all of the<br>
information that you are looking for. As far as getting that<br>
information from Pd to Liquid Media, that may be the tricky part. Your<br>
current pedals are sending keystrokes straight to Liquid Media. Do you<br>
know if there is a way to control Liquid Media via MIDI messages, or<br>
some sort of message sent via a socket connection (maybe OSC)? If so,<br>
then you might be able to use Pd to capture your pedal input and then<br>
combine that with the information from [fiddle~] and/or [bonk~] to<br>
send the appropriate information to Liquid Media. If the only way to<br>
control Liquid Media is through keystrokes, then you might need to<br>
write some software that intercepts the keystrokes from the pedals and<br>
changes them depending on what is going on in Pd.<br>
<br>
andy<br>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Hugh Sung <<a href="mailto:hughsung@gmail.com">hughsung@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm using a presentation program called "Liquid Media", sort of like<br>
> Powerpoint on steroids. Up to this point i had been using multiple foot<br>
> pedals assigned to different keystrokes to trigger visual cues, like video<br>
> clips, animated GIFs and the like, during live classical music piano<br>
> recitals.<br>
><br>
> I'd like to incorporate the dynamic capabilities of realtime visual sync,<br>
> with the ability to easily "change the scene", as it were. i'm hoping that<br>
> someone can help me come up with a combined solution where PD acts as an<br>
> audio trigger controller, triggering keystroke events based on pitch ranges,<br>
> dynamic peaks and rhythmic events, and Liquid Media accepts those<br>
> PD-generated keystrokes to trigger correlating visual cues. Each scene<br>
> would comprise of specific trigger-able events, and the foot switch would<br>
> allow for a manual "change of scene". i'm hoping to accomplish two things<br>
> with this combined approach:<br>
><br>
> 1. make it a little easier to incorporate visuals synced to audio events<br>
> 2. allow for easy scene transitions, to better compliment the "narrative"<br>
> structure of classical compositions<br>
><br>
> Hope this makes sense...thanks all for your input so far! (and patience!)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > As for forwarding keypresses and mouse events to an application ...<br>
> ><br>
> > I have done this in Windows to control FLStudio (aka FruityLoops) by<br>
> sending menu events and keypresses through python windows scripting,<br>
> pywinauto, and osc in python.<br>
> ><br>
> > I have info and code on my website. It should still work but it's a bit<br>
> old (2006) and I don't use Windows anymore.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:05 -0400, marius schebella wrote:<br>
> > fiddle~ comes with pd (look in the "extra" folder), there is a help<br>
> > patch that will explain how it works.<br>
> > hope this helps.<br>
> > marius.<br>
> ><br>
> > Hugh Sung wrote:<br>
> > > i'm not familiar with that program - can you provide a link to fiddle~,<br>
> > > or any other program that can easily do what i'm looking for with all<br>
> > > the various parameters?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Many thanks!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM, marius schebella<br>
> > > <<a href="mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com">marius.schebella@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com">marius.schebella@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Hugh Sung wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Actually, this isn't for speech recognition - i'm trying to come<br>
> > > up with a simple way to use key triggers to activate visuals.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > For example: if the piano plays A440, i'm presuming PD can be<br>
> > > configured to recognize that pitch with a microphone input and<br>
> > > then echo out a text string - the letter "A", perhaps.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > in that case, you best use fiddle~. what's the other program? does<br>
> > > it accept network communication? then you can send the letters over<br>
> > > tcp or udp connection (netsend).<br>
> > > marius.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > --<br>
> > > Hugh Sung<br>
> > > <a href="http://www.hughsung.com" target="_blank">www.hughsung.com</a> <<a href="http://www.hughsung.com" target="_blank">http://www.hughsung.com</a>><br>
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> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > ---<br>
> > Dan Wilcox<br>
> > <a href="http://robotcowboy.com" target="_blank">robotcowboy.com</a><br>
><br>
><br>
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