Just a question, I was looking at building an inexpensive studio for playing around at the house. One unit that looked promising with 2 XLR with phantom power was the Edirol UR-80: http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ur80.html Based on what I have seen in the kernel checkin logs, it appears that this would work for recording... what would be required to get the control surface to work with Ardour? Thanks Matt Henley On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:49:44 -0500, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the spirit of our evolving accessibility discussion ... > > > Florin Andrei writes: > > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:54 +0100, Florian Blaser wrote: > > > Also, is there a possibility to have some pedals connected to the computer in > > > order to switch effects on and off while playing ? > > > > I always wondered if there are any dumb devices that can generate simple > > MIDI events when pressing a button or something like that. > > That would be cool. > > > > I think you'll find accessibility support can help with this--when an > app is written with stock GTK2 widgets. The Gnome Onscreen Keyboard > (GOK) provides the generic mechanism to associate pretty much any > key-press/mouse-event with a wide range of alternative hardware > controls. That's its purpose in life for the benefit of folks who need > such interface support (no hands, etc.). It is, of course, > generalizable. Yes, it could provide some cool usefulness outside of > accessibility, too: > > http://www.gok.ca > > Janina > > > > -- > > Florin Andrei > > > > http://florin.myip.org/ > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > >
