[PD] MOD Trackers (was Pd to CV for a Moog) (OT)

[Paris Treantafeles]

Hi Mathieu and List,

This sounds very interesting and I know of people who could really put
it to use. Will there be a presentation on DesireData at Piksel?

Thanks,
p


On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:02 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
> > we once had a blind programmer,
> 
> Mario Lang. I knew him before I knew where Graz is and even before any
> PureData. I met him on IRC in 2001 because we were both writing in Ruby.
> 
> > who was very interested in Pd. we therefore tried to get this topic
> > ("using Pd as a blind person")
> 
> Chun Lee has made great efforts in making Pd (DesireData) more 
> keyboard-accessible, and I've helped him too. I've come up with a system 
> of visual navigation using diagonal quadrants, which is super easy to 
> figure out and use. For Mario, the concept of connectedness would be more 
> useful: imagine yourself going through patchcords, both upstream and 
> downstream. We haven't implemented this one yet.
> 
> a voice interface to pd would be interesting to us, in the sense that I 
> would be ready to help someone integrate voice recognition in DesireData.
> The voice interface could be made to be sufficient for doing everything 
> there is to do in DesireData, though I suppose that on average, people who 
> want to use voice will want to combine it with keyboard and/or mouse.
> 
> > we therefore tried to get this topic ("using Pd as a blind person") on 
> > the agenda of but it has been ignored by all relevant people (most of 
> > them probably don't even remember they were asked about it).
> 
> It'd be easier to make a spot for it at a conference if there was some 
> kind of demo program (or even just a paper) supporting the topic.
> 
> > he now uses SuperCollider...
> 
> (Possibly in part because the syntax of it is very similar to Ruby...)
> 
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