On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:03:33 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Will, > >On 27/07/21 09:22, Will Godfrey wrote: >> Does anyone know of software that can generate MIDI messages from a touchpad? > >If, as I understand it, you mean a latptop touchpad (i.e. thing used >instead of a real mouse with your finger :-) ) Pure Data can definitely >do it in many different ways. > >The Pd 'vanilla' way would probably be using a canvas object(s) and >tracking movement as you 'drag' them around. > >There are a bunch of Pd externals (i.e. libraries not included in Pd you >need to compile and install separately), which can also do this in >various ways. [1] > >Once you have the touchpad detection / setting setup Pd has a set of >inclued midi sending obejects which are really easy to use to send CC, >notes etc. > >> >> The idea would be to send CCs to a sequencer or soft synth, but being able to >> send it to an external hardware device would also be very useful. >> > >MIDI objects receive/send alsa-midi so you can route them to any >sequencer, synth or hardware device which can receive alsa-midi. > >Hope this helps. > >Lorenzo. > >[0] https://puredata.info/ >[1] There is also a Pd 'distribution' which comes packed with many many >externals out of the box, Purr Data: https://www.purrdata.net/ Thanks for all of this Lorenzo. I had been hoping for something lightweight, however if I can find that round tuit I seem to have lost, this is certainly an interesting (and potentially flexible) way of solving the problem. Will. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
