[PD] Input Controllers for Pd with finer grain than MIDI

[Damien HENRY]

Here a mail from cyril.henry at libertysurf.fr who is not on this list.

>Hello,
>If speed is not a problem, you can send 2 Midi controleur for each external
>input of your controller.
>While sending the 7 bits on one controller and 7 other bit on a diferent
>controler, there is no problem for sending 14 bits messages.
>This is slow.

>If speed is a problem, UDP is, for me, a good solution.
>I have build a new interfaces for Max, and now for Pd, using standard UDP 
object.
>UDP is more than 2 time faster with 16 bits than a 7 bit Midi link.

>Cyril.henry at libertysurf.fr

Please write directly to him if you are interested.
Damien.

Le Jeudi 23 Mai 2002 20:39, Christian Klippel a écrit :
> hi david,
>
> on my site you can find a input box that plugs into
> the parport of a pc. its a cheap (in means of $)
> design, and has 10 bit resolution (or 12 with a
> different ad chip) up to 88 inputs are possible
> (in step of 11). speed is quite fast, a few msecs
> for all ports, faster than midi anyway. of course
> you have to build it your own, but its really easy ;)
>
> the "driver" object currently only exists for jmax,
> but should be really easy to make it pd on either
> linux or windows.
>
> see the electronics part of my site for that.
> pricelist for digikey is also there (but maybe
> outdated) : http://mamalala.de/files/electronic.html
>
> i know of at least 5 people who have build a complete
> box and use them in a "production enviroment",
> but a lot more have build them (tough i dont know
> how big and for what use)
>
> greets,
>
> chris
>
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2002 18:16 schrieb David N G McCallum:
> > What do people use for controller input into Pd? I'm geared
> > towards building a MIDI slider box (ucapps.de) but it occurred to me that
> > it really would be nice to have a finer grain input than 7-bit.
> >
> > 	I built a controller that uses the joystick port (spacetaxi.de)
> > but the jitter is a little too much to deal with (unless anyone has a
> > jitter-filter patch they could send me).
> >
> > 	Are there any options through the serial port? What are my
> > options for finer-grain controller input?
> >
> > .
> > . David McCallum
> > . Queen's University Electronic Music Studio Manager
> > .           and Noise Maker
> > . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/
> > .