One beautiful thing about pd is the “-nogui” flag, which can make pd feel like (and be) a much more lightweight solution for these kind of “glue code” tasks. Best, -Matt -- CCRMA Technical Director https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt 650-723-4971 x304 Pronouns: he, his, him > On Jul 27, 2021, at 5:54 AM, Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have another pd method (using purr-data) for you which might be a tiny bit simpler than using |hid|: > > In purr-data, you can use the object |legacy_mousemotion| which will then output x and y position of the mouse for the pd current window. > > If you like using pd-l2ork 1.0 instead, you can actually use cyclone's |MouseState| object, which gives you a similar feature set (although I like |MouseState| better, it seems to work smoother). > > You could then use these to make midi messages inside pd and output it through purr-data/pd-l2ork's midi output. > > Brandon Hale > > On 7/27/21 4:33 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
