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From: Jeff Rose <ros...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:43:39 +0000
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Subject: Re: Game controllers?
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I think it would be ideal if the low level communication API worked
along the lines of the midi interface, where a handler function is
called with an event map.  Then on top of this, we can build out some
more generalized abstractions for components like button grids, sets
of sliders / dials, keyboards, velocity sensitive drum pads for
percussion, etc.  Seem reasonable?

-Jeff

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tom Oinn <tomo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2012 11:02, James Petry <gavilanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Friday, February 24, 2012 10:28:22 PM UTC, Jeff Rose wrote:
>>>
>>> Overtone speaks OSC to SuperCollider, but I think for game controllers
>>> we'll want direct communication from the underlying Java library to Overtone
>>> by registering a handler function that receives some kind of simple
>>> controller event map. That way we can use it to control anything, from
>>> sequencers to synthesizer controls or other abstract musical controls in
>>> clojure.
>>
>>
>> Now I've got reasonably far with the OSC route, I'd like to look at this
>> direct approach. Is there something already in Overtone that works this way,
>> so I can read the code?
>
> I don't know if it's the 'official overtone way', if there is such a
> thing, but the examples I posted recently using my audiocube library
> work for me and seem elegant enough. The API is at
> https://github.com/tomoinn/overtone.device.audiocubes and an example
> project using it to modulate synth properties at
> https://github.com/tomoinn/audiocube-overtone-demo.
>
> I don't think Jeff is referring to a specific overtone API (please
> correct me if I'm wrong!) and more the general approach of having a
> simple callback mechanism that can be used to glue your device
> specific code into other bits of overtone.
>
> The google doc I linked refers to a more general approach (and would
> then *be* such an API) where an additional abstraction layer in the
> form of a virtual console (in the 'recording studio' rather than
> 'terminal' sense) is interposed between physical hardware and consumer
> code, but we don't have that yet.
>
> Tom