As an organ player, I sometimes dream of having a full midi pedal under my desk. Would be an easy way to get some extra exercise. The problem though is that I don't think such a thing is compatible with a comfy office chair. The polished wood of an organ bench isn't comfortable but it allows for mobility.
webprofusion 54 minutes ago [-]
Funny I just built a custom midi controller firmware and configuration manager app for the Line 6 Pod GO (which is traditionally not a full midi controller):
I used a usb foot pedal with three switches for playing world of warcraft - originally bought it for PTT but realised how useful it was and ended up using it for the speed boost spell and the big damage cooldown.
Sir, Emacs pedals came way earlier, we needed to avoid "Emacs pinky"!
scottyeager 3 hours ago [-]
I picked up a couple of foot pedals built to control manual transcription software from thrift stores. That was years ago and I hacked them to control music software instead. Then one day I got Nvidia's Parakeet model running locally and was sold on automatic transcription in an instant. So in an ironic twist, I started using one of my spare transcription pedals to do transcription by wiring it up to a harness for Parakeet. It's great and the setup is basically trivial to create these days on Linux with a bit of help from an agent.
I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.
Bad_CRC 1 hours ago [-]
Darktable also supports Midi controls, I played with it with a korg nano kontrol back in the day.
simongray 2 hours ago [-]
Other than the novelty of being able to press buttons with your feet, why is this useful?
If you lack special buttons, you could also just buy a bigger keyboard (or a MIDI controller that sits on the table).
ashtuchkin 6 hours ago [-]
Love it! Trying to use it with my nanoPAD2 and it only outputs `note_on` and `note_off` events. Can we bind on these? Example output:
I have one of these! And I almost made this exact thing myself! Love this thank you. PS would love a little UI for this if there isn't one already
_def 8 hours ago [-]
I always thought using something like this for debugger shortcuts could be fun
aguynamedben 6 hours ago [-]
This would be sick for video game keybinds!
NewJazz 8 hours ago [-]
This is dope. Would love to bring it to linux
tetraodonpuffer 7 hours ago [-]
I have something like this in linux using a novation launchcontrol, it's quite straightforward using aseqdump, say I use the buttons to switch desktops, I have this launched as part of my session and always in background. While developing this I just printed $line to see what aseqdump sent to figure out the regexes
while IFS=' ' read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == *"client"*"Launch Control"\* ]]; then
device=$(echo "$line" | cut -d' ' -f2)
fi
done < <(aconnect -i)
aseqdump -p ${device::-1} | while IFS=' ' read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == *"Note on"* ]]; then
note=$(echo "$line" | grep -o "note [0-9]*" | cut -d' ' -f2)
if [ "$note" == "9" ]; then
wmctrl -s 8
fi
elif [[ "$line" == *"Control change"*"127" ]]; then
note=$(echo "$line" | grep -o "controller [0-9]*" | cut -d' ' -f2)
if [ "$note" == "114" ]; then
# some macro
fi
fi
done
wyre 7 hours ago [-]
Repo is 2,500loc, all-in, according to SCC. Should be really easy to point your favorite coding agent at the repo and have it one or two shot something similiar in the language of your choice.
9 hours ago [-]
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Line6podgo/comments/1wgo1tr/pod_go_...
This takes it to the next level!
I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.
If you lack special buttons, you could also just buy a bigger keyboard (or a MIDI controller that sits on the table).
22:56:38.740 note_on channel=1 note=36 velocity=89 [nanoPAD2 PAD]