As a musician and part time audio engineer I recently bought myself a bright white KORG nanoKONTROL 2 USB controller as an addition to my mobile Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) setup. Setting it up and running it within OSX went smoothly, but I prefer Ubuntu Studio as Qtractor is my DAW of choice. So I connected the nanoKONTROL to Qtractor using Jack. I clearly saw midi events coming in, but nothing happened. This is where I started my search for enabling the nanoKONTROL in Qtractor. After reading many articles and blogs (special thanks to Jeremy!) I was able to reconstruct a working Qtractor control file (a .qtc file :-).
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Making music using a computer, Wiimote and PureData
An article that appeared on the Create Digital Music website, about making music using the WiiMote and a computer, drew my attention. Several hints were given on the how to, but as always in doing new things the information was scattered everywhere and nowhere. After reading many articles and watching many videos I found out how to realize a working setup for myself. In this article I’ll try to explain the steps needed to create a working setup for yourself.
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LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25 on Ubuntu Studio 12.04
As I was looking for a new (smaller) MIDI keyboard for my home studio, my eyes fell in love with the “basic” looking LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25. Reading the specs this could easily be my next big studio love… The next question popped up, would the LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25 be compatible with my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)!?
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This is an update for the Activiti 5.4 release!!! The boys and girls of the activiti.org development team must have had a busy schedule at the beginning of this year! 🙂 Pulling off monthly updates, they did a very good job again at the Activiti 5.4 release!!! What is Activiti??? Activiti is THE light-weight work-flow and Business Process Management platform targeted at business people, developers and sysadmins. In this “How to” I’ll try to explain how to install the Activiti 5.4 BPM tool demo on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using the terminal. Previous installations of Activiti are described here 5.0,5.1,5.2, 5.3.
Using Wiican makes gaming easier in Linux
A month ago I stumbled upon a program called Wiican. Wiican is a fantastic program, or to put it more correctly it’s a bunch of extremely powerful scripts, that makes your life easier using your Wii Mote in Linux.
Having my holidays within sight, I really didn’t have time to give it a close look before I took of to France. “Luckily” I had some time during my holidays (read: I had some rainy days) to experiment and discover the power of Wiican.
So after a bit of fiddling I came up with a script that to use your Wiimote in First Person Shooter (FPS) games like Assaultcube, Sauerbraten, Warsow), etc.
Prerequisites (what you need to get it working):
- Hardware
- Computer running Ubuntu
- Network connection
- Software
- Wiican installed (I’ll describe the installation of Wiican in a different article, because at this moment the installation struggles with some dependencies issues)
- Download and unzip the Wiican script I wrote
- Import the script within Wiican (details will follow when I’m back from my holidays)
- Start the script
- Hookup your WiiMote
- Start fragging some bots
Or you can try to write your own script within Wiican…
Script contents:
| Name : CUBE Game Gamepad Comment : Control CUBE games using the Wiimote Authors : Winko Erades Version : 0.3# Wiimote accelerometer as mouse XY axis Plugin.acc.X = REL_Y Plugin.acc.Y = – REL_X# Wiimote buttons for movement Wiimote.Up = KEY_LEFT Wiimote.Down = KEY_RIGHT Wiimote.Left = KEY_DOWN Wiimote.Right = KEY_UP # Wiimote buttons for shooting and jumping |
And now start fragging!!! 🙂
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