If you have a programmable midi keyboard, you can program a foot pedal to send an mmc play/pause command to ardour, and there you have it. --- Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote: Pure Data is the old standby for me. It's overkill, but it can handle it. > Anything that can take MIDI controller input and playback audio. I'm not > sure if Audacity does that, actually. Rosegarden and Ardour both could, and > now that I think of it you might be able to rig the Jack transport to start > and stop with a MIDI signal, and use that to play Audacity. > > -Chuckk > > On 10/24/07, N. Gey <ilfhi@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > The situation is that I often transcribe audio signals (music of course, > > but also spoken words like interviews) to my computer. Its a good > > situation when your hands are free so you can use both hands to write. > > > > I recently read about some expensive usb-footcontroller (USB) which > > somehow connects to an audio program to send start/stop signals. > > This cant be this complicated... there a plenty of midi controllers out > > there which you controll with your food, even the sustain-pedal is > > suitable for the start/stop job. > > > > Do you have any Idea or know of anything which do the described? Just > > sending a signal to a audioprogramm (audacious, audacity, xmms etc.) to > > halt? > > > > greetings, > > Nils > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > > > -- > http://www.badmuthahubbard.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
