On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:57, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:17 +0200 > J?rgen Sch?neberg <jschoeni@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > hej! > > > > I 'm looking for a linux software to play soundfiles controlled by > > a footswitch on the serial port. (just possible to control start, rewind, > > stop) . > > > > Usually I'm using jack/ardour but haven't seen the possibility to use a > > footswitch to control the software. > > > > Even a howto for using a footswitch as an input device for a perl script would > > be very helpful. > > > > Any ideas? I do this in Ardour but with midi. I use an old Digitech RP10 guitar fx processor with midi capabilities. I can use program change data (either 0 up to 127) and if I assign midi to a fader, it sees it as a level. So 127 = loudest and 0 = off. Not the intent of PC midi but works anyway. There are cheap midi foot controllers out there. I use the volume pedal on CC 10 and assign to one fader in the Ardour mixer for live use. > > I don't have a howto, but some thoughts: > > reading the serial port is probably provided by the /dev/ttyS* device files.. read up on the serial tty driver in linux. Then i suppose you can use std file processing in perl [i dont use perl, but i heard it's rather complete :)]. The last thing you need is a file player which can be remote controlled. Either just launch aplay processes from the perl script, or use xmms remote controlling for example.. > > Regards, > Florian Schmidt > >
