Hi everyone

I have no idea what's on the market regarding hardware controllers which you can use to control Pd with.

Very simplistically (and possibly unrealistically, since I don't know anything about HW...), I would like something that:

• Had only controllers, knobs, sliders (no keyboard)
• Not very big (just for reference something like this: http://www.eowave.com/instruments.php?prod=75)
• Could use USB to plug in a laptop
• Well supported in Linux
• Worked with Pd

As for the purpose of it: nothing more than to control sliders, values, etc in Pd. so no need for program storage or whatever spiffy things there are out there.

Any pro-tips?

Many many thanks

Hello everyone!

/introduction
I'm a complete PD newbie (tried it long time ago, but moved to SuperCollider, ChucK, etc, but made my mind about giving PD my attention), but must say I'm fascinated by it!
I'm getting my feet wet with PD, trying out the examples and reading the online docs, but now I've tried to make something really simple on my own and stumbled on the first obstacle.

/question
I wanted to create a switch between two audio loops, for which I could control the frequency rate. Say 1Hz would switch between 1 second of loop A, then 1 second of B.

I could manage to create the audio playing part of the patch without problem, but I'm stumped by how to implement the switch...

What strategy would you use? Something along the lines of an osc~ connected to an expr~?

Many thanks!

Thanks!

The nanokontrol seems to be precisely the type of controller I was looking for.

Thanks again.

Cool. Thanks for the tips, mod.
And attached is the patch.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/chopper.pd

Many thanks!

Works like a charm!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Screenshot_-_071211_-_20:44:28.png