Footswitch usb

[sandie]

Francesco Barreca wrote:
> If you have a little hacking skills and pure data beginner level,
> you can do it on your own by using an old USB numeric keypad and pure 
> data.
> Filtering the ASCII code of specific buttons within pure data and 
> resend it via MIDI to your guitar rack.
> http://cycling74.com/2007/10/16/making-connections-building-a-usb-footswitch/
> best francesco b
>
Nice idea.

It should be easy to build one to control my DAW ([1] to locator one, 
[Enter] to play, and so on...).
It'll be a cool tool to have when I'm stuck behing the drums, instead of 
trying to reach the keyboard with various objects :-)

Regards
Sandie