How to get Powermate data in max?

anya elioutina's icon

I want to control my floats with this griffin
powermate usb-fed knob controller .How do i get max to
recognise it? hi object doesn't see it .Like i need
drivers, or what? I am using Max 4,6 on
leopard.Thanks.
Anya

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Andrew Benson's icon

A student at one of the workshops I worked had one of those. We figured
the best way to get them into Max was to go in the control panel for the
powermate and change it over to keyboard mode (maybe it was a custom
configuration). This way you could use the [key] object to track
up-increments,down-increments, and button presses.

Good luck,
Andrew B.

anya elioutina wrote:
> I want to control my floats with this griffin
> powermate usb-fed knob controller .How do i get max to
> recognise it? hi object doesn't see it .Like i need
> drivers, or what? I am using Max 4,6 on
> leopard.Thanks.
> Anya
>
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
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zipb's icon

That's how I use it too. Use the PowerMate control panel to translate
your twists and turns into keypresses, then intercept these in Max.

Best,

Zip

Op 11-apr-2008, om 0:50 heeft Andrew Benson het volgende geschreven:

> A student at one of the workshops I worked had one of those. We
> figured the best way to get them into Max was to go in the control
> panel for the powermate and change it over to keyboard mode (maybe
> it was a custom configuration). This way you could use the [key]
> object to track up-increments,down-increments, and button presses.
>
> Good luck,
> Andrew B.
>
> anya elioutina wrote:
>> I want to control my floats with this griffin
>> powermate usb-fed knob controller .How do i get max to
>> recognise it? hi object doesn't see it .Like i need
>> drivers, or what? I am using Max 4,6 on
>> leopard.Thanks.
>> Anya
>>
>> Do You Yahoo!?
>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>>
>

mzed's icon

Quote: anya elioutina wrote on Thu, 10 April 2008 15:19
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> I want to control my floats with this griffin
> powermate usb-fed knob controller .How do i get max to
> recognise it? hi object doesn't see it .Like i need
> drivers, or what? I am using Max 4,6 on
> leopard.Thanks.
>
>
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I've used these drivers in the past:

They turn the powermate into a HI device. I have no idea about leopard compatibility.

mz