Re: [microsound] Webcam as a MIDI controller + Pixel tracking, etc

[Malte Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2 additions:

Adam Young wrote:
> I really want to use a webcam and convert video info to midi... I've
> received many suggestions. The problem is, the only item I could find that
> would run on OSX was the max/msp solution... 

pd and gem runs on OSX too, are free and I got tracking working with it

I'm looking for something that
> can stand on it's own two feet without something clunky like max, and it
> will be triggering events in another audio program, as if it were a standard
> midi controller.

clunky or not, tracking is not trivial. With Max you got the option to 
use Rewire to connect with Reason on the same machine, but have no 
experience with it because I dont own Reason...

Cheers,

Malte


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