Pedal to control Max/MSP?

You will need a pedal, MIDI interface and a MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard to do that. Unfortunately, then you will have carry three more stuff when going to a conference or a performance.

There is some mini USB keyboard, like "Oxygen". If you have one, you don't need extra MIDI interface and it is easy to carry. You can even use the MIDI faders on it.

Other equipments are also good:
Kenton ControlFreak, Behringer BCR/BCF 2000, Evolution UC33e

Quote: Cheng Chien-Wen wrote on Wed, 28 June 2006 06:10
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> You will need a pedal, MIDI interface and a MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard to do that. Unfortunately, then you will have carry three more stuff when going to a conference or a performance.
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You seem to be forgetting the fact that there are many midi controllers that are already foot pedals. One doesn't need to buy an additional midi controller at all.

I suggest taking a good long look at the Behringer FCB1010 and something like the midiSport usb midi interfaces. It'll all fit in a big backpack with a laptop, and it'll give you oodles of control.

Andreas.

Obvious:
of all check out ready made pedals which normally plug into midi
keyboards.
check out midi pedal boards
there are direct usb pedals and buttons for the disabled. "usb pedal"
or "usb big button"

Cheap, creative:
if you've got an extra usb keyboard/mouse lying around, I would
assume(correct me if I'm wrong) that you could pry off a key and wire
a switch to it. then use the hi object. this is really not a
desirable option.

someone once suggested just putting a mouse on the floor.

ENGL - Z12 : the most beautiful, classy foot controller on earth (and
mars). Don't look at the black one, but the vintage steel one. Sends PGM
changes, so you may use [pgmin] with [sel] and you're on.

f.e

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actuallly the rolls of them all is the Roland FC 200 - sends anything
you would need (CC, notes, program changes....) you can hok up to 8
external controllers, has a build in expression pedal, is
programmable. Is also bulky and expensive

the behringer is good and cheap - but has less possibilities (no
external controllers)

I use quite often the Boss FC50 - program changes, 4 external
controllers (2 of them being continous)

Doepfer makes a kit which works very well - and is rather cheap

.....

best

kasper
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I used to use a big ole pedal board like the boss fc50, but that was
bulky. so i got a miditron and some parts from radio shack and made a
much smaller foot controller situation. just two switches and
(sometimes)an expression pedal.

of course i already use a 4x4 midi interface for my other controllers...

miditron and pedalboard cost me about the same. but miditron can do
things the pedal board cannot.

Really cheap and dirty:

If you've got a multi-channel audio i/o, just send an audio signal (cycle~) from MSP to a volume control pedal and send the output back into the i/o and read the level with peakamp~.

I use a signal with frequency 1/8th the sample rate, which gives peakamp~ at least one complete cycle to read. I get better than 10 bits equivalent resolution and better than MIDI sample rate and lag.

I also use an "expression pedal" wired as a volume control - this gives a linear response so I don't need to flatten out the log response of a volume control pot for a nice control linearity.

>I also use an "expression pedal" wired as a volume control - this
>gives a linear response so I don't need to flatten out the log
>response of a volume control pot for a nice control linearity.

??????

could you tell more??
wired as a volume control? you mean the hardware?? or some trick in max???

thanks

kasper

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noise, composition, bass, computer
http://www.sleazeArt.com

I do this same thing (sine wave with peakamp) with a roland EV-5. To
wire it up, I use a little hosa adaptor that turns the trs plug on the
ev-5 into two quarter-inch plugs and run one into an input, and one
into an ouptut. Very light and portable. I have five ev-5s wired into
my audio interface this way to control max/msp live. Works awesome.

Jeff Kaiser
http://www.jeffkaiser.com
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