Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, David Merrill wrote: A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically strip away most of its size, leaving just a little circuit board with wires coming out to your buttons. You can read the button-presses wi

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Andy Farnell
Becuase you want 16 or less buttons its easy. You don't need a key scanner so just a 6402 (aka AY-5-101-5) is basically all you want. You can get em for pennies. >From memory you want a 500kHz clock, but 1MHz crystals are more common so a flip flop will divide it in half. You pull a few pins up

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, David Merrill wrote: A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically strip away most of its size, leaving just a little circuit board with wires coming out to your buttons. You can read the button-presses with Hans's [hid] object. here's one that we

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Jones
Thanks David and Marius In fact I was thinking about hacking a midi control keyboard but I¹ll have a look at what you suggest. Stuart From: David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:49:49 -0400 To: marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: Re: [PD]

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Olivier Heinry
You may also get in touch ww/ the mamalala I/O project http://mamalala.net/ ++ O. Le mardi 28 août 2007 à 08:41 -0400, marius schebella a écrit : > just a small hint to prevent problems I experienced in the past. when > you hack a keyboard for installations, I recommend not to use keys wh

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Olivier Heinry
You may also get in touch ww/ the mamalala I/O project http://mamalala.net/ ++ O. Le mardi 28 août 2007 à 08:41 -0400, marius schebella a écrit : > just a small hint to prevent problems I experienced in the past. when > you hack a keyboard for installations, I recommend not to use keys whi

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread David Merrill
.. that sounds like advice-from-experience! Marius has a good point there. I would add to it that you should also make sure that you don't leave a window foregrounded that will make a "status beep" or any other unwanted sound when the particular keys that you've chosen are pressed. At our recent S

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread marius schebella
just a small hint to prevent problems I experienced in the past. when you hack a keyboard for installations, I recommend not to use keys which interrupt the start process (c, s, return or the system runtime). if people have buttons in installation they will not stop pressing them during a resta

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread David Merrill
Hi Stuart - A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically strip away most of its size, leaving just a little circuit board with wires coming out to your buttons. You can read the button-presses with Hans's [hid] object. here's one that we did some time ago... http://www.ins

[PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Jones
Hi I'm helping with an installation which will have 12-16 buttons (on/off) to set off events in Pd and need to find a simple midi controller to just send note on and note off messages on 12-16 notes to do that. I could hack a midi keyboard but that would be a complicated and bulky solution given t