wraggster
January 21st, 2013, 21:48
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Hit up any club, party, or get together where musicians are present and you’ll probably find a DJ booth stacked to the gills with faders, various MIDI devices, and a MacBook. However abundant an OS X-based DJ platform is, we haven’t heard hide nor hare of a Raspberry Pi being used as a sequencer, MIDI device, or MaxMSP box.
[James] over at Illuminated Sound put together a great tutorial (http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=2057) for making all those cool electronic music devices play nice with a Raspberry Pi. He used a Novation Launchpad (http://us.novationmusic.com/launchpad), an 8×8 MIDI controller that can act as faders, a keyboard, or even a functional equivalent to the pads on an MPC.
Hardware is nothing without software, so [James] used Puredata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data) and libusb to turn the MIDI data into notes and audio effects.
[James] added a download that includes the Launchpad driver and a Puredata sketch to test everything out. You can see how it all fits together in the video after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2013/01/21/tired-of-playing-the-macbook-play-the-raspberry-pi/
Hit up any club, party, or get together where musicians are present and you’ll probably find a DJ booth stacked to the gills with faders, various MIDI devices, and a MacBook. However abundant an OS X-based DJ platform is, we haven’t heard hide nor hare of a Raspberry Pi being used as a sequencer, MIDI device, or MaxMSP box.
[James] over at Illuminated Sound put together a great tutorial (http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=2057) for making all those cool electronic music devices play nice with a Raspberry Pi. He used a Novation Launchpad (http://us.novationmusic.com/launchpad), an 8×8 MIDI controller that can act as faders, a keyboard, or even a functional equivalent to the pads on an MPC.
Hardware is nothing without software, so [James] used Puredata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data) and libusb to turn the MIDI data into notes and audio effects.
[James] added a download that includes the Launchpad driver and a Puredata sketch to test everything out. You can see how it all fits together in the video after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2013/01/21/tired-of-playing-the-macbook-play-the-raspberry-pi/