[PD-announce] new [hid] release + simple mapping objects

[B. Bogart]

Hey Hans,

What "smoothing" algo are you thinking of? I've been very very happy with
the low-pass method that Thomas suggested some time ago. Gives you a great
feeling of enertia.

I'm looking forward to a proper HCI tablet driver for OSX or dirrect wacom
support in HID.

I think this is a great project.

I will find the auto-scaling stuff very useful in the near future I think...

Thanks for your efforts.

Ben

>
> This version of [hid] fixes the crasher bug when you try to open a
> non-existant device.
>
> I am currently working on making a suite of objects for mapping
> controller data.  I am making a number of objects like [mouse],
> [joystick], etc. which all output range (0 to 1 for axes).  Then the
> mapping objects all take data of this range and output 0 to 1 so that
> the data can be easily mapped and scaled to parameters.  Included are
> log, square root, and cube root; and exponent, square, and cube; as
> well as a basic smoothing object.
>
> The overarching idea for these objects is to make clearly defined,
> high-level objects for beginners and for rapid prototyping when using
> external controllers in Pd patches.  At least point I am looking for
> ideas, comments, etc. about other possible mapping functions
>
> http://puredata.org/Members/hans/downloads
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> .hc
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