Hi Kas- On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:02AM +0200, Kassen wrote:
That's good news!
I agree; I had a good time noodling yesterday. So far, so good...
In your patch I didn't notice any reference to KBHit, a older, more simple, interface in ChucK to the computer's keyboard. I'm not sure whether that depends on true HID support, you may want to check that out ( there's a demo in /examples/event/ ). If that does work you're in luck because keyboard input can be very convenient in debugging ChucK code and of course with so many keys there's a lot of space for instrument design.
Thanks for the pointer; the KBHit demos _do_ work without any further modification (excellent!). I'll also probably look into OSC eventually, too (very cool to see it supported as well).
It might also be good to point out that the true "joy of joypads" comes with low latency audio though when this is missing MIDI output linked to a external synth is still loads of fun.
Ah, MIDI. rtmidi.c supports IRIX, Mac OSX, Windows and Linux but not, sadly, OpenBSD. We have a pretty standard OSS-based MIDI API (read/write/poll the device file), but the RtMidi* abstraction doesn't seem to have this yet. Again, if there's interest in adding OpenBSD (or OSS) MIDI support, I'm happy to provide whatever support I can. Thanks again! -- [Will Maier]-----------------[willmaier@ml1.net|http://www.lfod.us/]