Comments on: midimouse (Mac OS X)

By: flo

flo — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:19:17 +0000

as in my dreams!

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:44:53 +0000

Hi Alfred, I found this page that says that this is a bug in Traktor 3.3 with virtual midi ports that should be fixed with 3.4. Regards, Michael

By: Alfred

Alfred — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:16:05 +0000

Great application! I would also love to use it with Traktor 3.3 but it does not work. Midimouse shows up in the List of Midi-Devices and I can also choose it – but it does not stay activated. A Bug?

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:22:53 +0000

Cooper, please take a look at these Reason Tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozNiryuEA0g
http://www.google.com/search?q=reason+setup+midi

By: Cooper

Cooper — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:09:25 +0000

Does anyone know if this works with Reason Adapted?
If so does anyone know what I should do to set it up? When I open Reason I can choose midimouse as a controller, but it is having no effect.
I’m sure I’m doing something stupid, can anyone help?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:27:35 +0000

Wicked App .. Just figured it out using Reason.
Gonna have some fun with this!

Cheers
Chris

By: martin

martin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:18:34 +0000

Hi! great application!
What would be reaaallly cool is a pitch bend feature, and something like a full screen/relative mode (relative to the point where i clicked, so i could press the mouse button, pitch notes up with the touchpad, and when i release the mouse button pitch bending returns to zero).
hope you like that idea too,
martin

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:28:02 +0000

hey Kris,
I am usings Pete Yandell’s PYMIDI. As I’m on holiday and it’ll take some time until I return, I suggest, you check out PYMIDI directly instead: http://notahat.com/pymidi

Hope this helps,
best,
Michael

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:01:43 +0000

I really like this application, I am working on something similar but I do not know how to get the software to show up as a MIDI device. Is there source code available for this?

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:58:23 +0000

Hi Sjoerd; that’s a good suggestion! Will look into it :-)

Best regards,
Michael

By: Sjoerd

Sjoerd — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:45:51 +0000

Great stuff Michael!! Thanks for sharing!

May I suggest looking into supporting OSC as well, so we can hook up stuff like our iPhones / iPod Touches as well? Will be happy to help testing!

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:30:36 +0000

Hi Andy,

as I am not working with Traktor (nor 3 neither Pro), I’m not sure I can be of any help here. If it works with Traktor 3, this indicates that the problem might be with Traktor Pro; maybe you’ve overseen some preferences or so? Sometimes it helps to restart the Applications.

For any kind of Midi problems, I can recommend MIDIMonitor, a simple application that shows you outgoing and incoming MIDI signals. This way it’s very simple to say which app isn’t working as expected: http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/

A similar function (AList) is also in MIDIPipe, but this is a bit more complex to setup, so I’d suggest to try MIDIMonitor.

Hope this helps,
Michael

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:08:56 +0000

By the way – it works fine in Traktor 3 – wonder what the difference is?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:52 +0000

Hi – have you had any experience using Midimouse with Traktor Pro – I’ve tried it using various channels and various ports (midimouse and IAC driver). Traktor can see both of these ports in the “Midi Setup” preference and I can select either, but then no midi signal comes through. There is a light at the top of the Traktor Pro GUI that lights when a midi signal is received even if it isn’t mapped and this light doesn’t come on at all.

It looks like such a beautiful program and I would love to use it as an FX controller.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:41:45 +0000

I love and use midimouse 0.6, and it is just like heaven.
The only missing feature for me is the pitch bend.

Thanks for this wonderful program.

By: head

head — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:47:34 +0000

super, ich freu mich schon auf die neue version (lasse das projekt wieder aufleben) ;-)

teste mal die beta an…

head

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:46:16 +0000

midimouse 0.6 is in development :)

I invested some time to cleanup the ugly code and rewrote most parts from scratch.

It’s a document based application and will support multiple devices, such as mouse incl. scroll wheels, tablets, computer-keyboard keys and (tadaa!) Wii remotes!

All CC-values, ports and channels will be switch-, set- and storeable. Due to a flexible datasource concept it will be easy to add support for more devices in future updates with ease.

I expect a public beta release still in this year (probably still in november)

Regards,
Michael

By: head

head — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:05:53 +0000

there is no hurry!
the sources would bring me nothing, .plist-editing is one thing, coding another ;-)

i extended my project in a very special way:
i finally can use my wacom to “steer” midimouse – i defined an area where the wacom is working (upper left edge of my screen, EXACTLY where my windows of midimouse are, no pixel further) and placed 2 midimouse-instances side by side – my wacom is now split in two halfes, each one steering 2 midi-channels (only with pressure (like mouse-button pressed), everything else is too risky for a liveact)…

i can post more information if anybody wants it…

a yeah, another suggestion:
the “resize-edge” in the lower left corner of midimouse, could you add an option to disable it? me and my wishes, i know ;-)
but if i accidentially start in this corner i am resizing the window, and thats not good during a liveact ;-)

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:09:45 +0000

Quite tricky for someone with “non-existing-coding-skills” :D
You could also just open up the packages contents and directly start the Mac OS X resource (this way you can always start two instances of nearly any program), but as you already noticed, this won’t help you to get two different midi ports or different channels and I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to open up two identical virtual ports. Atm midimouse is sending on CH 1 only, and you cannot easily “hack” this, you need to change a lot of code lines. As I already said, I will add this for my to-do list to support document based setups for the next version; everything else would be ugly quick hacked.
I have nothing against doing thing like these, it’s your personal copy and you can do with it what you like, but I doubt it’s very stable this way ;-)
(I would also send you the sources, but I fear this is not a trivial task!, so I recommend to be a bit patient until I implemented this feature ;-)

Greetings to Klagenfurt! =)
(just thought Dresden ’cause I saw that on the imprint of the webpage you linked to your name)

By: head

head — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:53:59 +0000

I played around a bit and used my non existent coding skills to create 2 working instances of midimouse! (i got 5 instances to work, but only 2 of them are possible to send out midi-data)..

here is how i did it (and please tell me if this is against any ethics of coding or something, i mean changing code)

1. i copied the program-file and made a second “midimouse.app”, named midimouse2

2. i looked for the plist-file in the library (should be de.zeichensprecher.midimouse.plist) duplicated it, and renamed it (like de.zeichensprecher.midimouse2.plist)

3. now i went into the package contents of the midimouse2-app (the first instance will work with no hassle), i opened the info.plist-file, and changed the value “CFBundleIdentifier” to “de.zeichensprecher.midimouse2″ (first there was no “2″, so it was getting values from the same plist-file as the first instance).

4. open both instances, configure the midi-assignments (i got cc 1 and 2 on the first one, and cc 3 and 4 on the second, both only working with pressed mousebutton)

now there is a new problem, i could not really solve till now:

the midi-data is coming from a port which is called midimouse – both instances would be sending data to it, but just one would “come trough”. the several instances are visible in ableton live, but only one sends data.

so i “kidnapped” the midi-data from midimouse1 and routed it to another channel (with the help of a programm called “midipipe”). that means i take the data from midimouse1 and route it to another midi-channel, while there is now “space” for midimouse2 to send on this channel…

but this only works with 2 channels :-(

anybody know how to get this working with more than 2 instances?

greetings to nürnberg (from klagenfurt, but dresden was a good guess, as i would be living there if there would not be my studies here in austria ;-) )

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:11:54 +0000

That’s a good suggestion, head!
It would require to make a document-based application. This way it would also be possible to store different setups as files which would make midimouse more flexible than storing overall preferences.
What I do also like on this approach: I did not release the 0.5 version with scroll-wheel support due to limitations of OSX that receives scroll events only for the active window; if there were multiple document windows, this limitation wouldn’t be that disturbing I guess…

I will add this for my to do list for the next update (though it may take some time, ’cause it requires rewriting larger parts of the application).

Grüße aus Nürnberg nach Dresden ;-)
Michael

By: head

head — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:37:04 +0000

Great software!
It would be a real burner if it would be possible to run multiple instances on a external monitor, or at the bottom of the screen.

i just tried out to use two instances but it did not work, one instance was simply not sending out midi-data … trying with ableton live…

could you add a function which makes this possible? i imagine a row of 5 or 6 midimouses under my ableton live, controlling filters and stuff – that would be awesome!

greetings, head

By: Frank Lusk

Frank Lusk — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:24:43 +0000

What a lovely app! I would love to use this with traktor… does anyone know if and how this is possible.

Thanx a lot

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:11:22 +0000

Sources are on the way.
Btw, I plan to release midimouse 0.5 together with the sourcecode.
I don’t have no plans for a release date yet.
Regards,
Michael

By: Lak

Lak — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:41:34 +0000

Hi, I was wondering if you’d be happy to share your source code – I have an exciting project in mind incorporating the darwiin project and the wii remote framework to control MIDI CC in realtime with a wii remote – email me with your response!
thanks
Lak

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:51:22 +0000

Hi Kugu,

just start midimouse and you will find one more (virtual) MIDI-Input Port. Please refer to your Ableton Live Manual (Available from the Help Menu), ’cause steps are different for different LIVE Versions.

After you enabled the midimouse port for remote control, you may assign the CC’s to nearly any LIVE function.

Please understand that I cannot provide step-by-step tutorials for any application, ’cause there are too many.

Regards,
Michael

Edit: Nice to hear, that you got it working ;)

By: Kugu

Kugu — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:50:06 +0000

Nevermind I found out…

In Live pref… I had to set midimouse to remote… than assignment to effects worked.

By: Kugu

Kugu — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:42:44 +0000

I am new to this… Could you please write some short instructions on how to configure ableton live to be controlled by midmouse?

Thanks a lot..

By: j nik

j nik — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:45:59 +0000

andersrum wäre es mir lieber…

MIDI Signale auf die Mauskoordinaten legen. So könnte man sein MIDI-Keyboard als Joystick für Flugsimulatoren oder Redline nutzen.

By: Fazza

Fazza — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:38:58 +0000

Thanks a lot Michael. This is so much fun!!!

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:57:11 +0000

Hi Fa:z,

midimouse works out of the box. You don’t need to setup anything special in Garageband, just open the preferences in midimouse to select appropriate Controller-Numbers => eg. send CC7 to control the volume, CC1 to control the modulation…

If you want to trigger notes, you need some additional software, because midimouse just sends controllers (Controllers and NoteOns are different message types). Search for MidiPipe; you can convert nearly anything with this tool.

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Michael :)

By: Fazza

Fazza — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:04:01 +0000

Hi all,

Has anyone connected the midimouse to Garageband yet? If so I’d be grateful if you could share how this can be achieved.

Cheers,

Fa:z

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:50:42 +0000

thanks for that, DkQM. But as the page sais that it won’t work with “the new (Feb 2005) PowerBooks” and later models because “it relies on an ADB driver”. In other words: Fingamidi is a driver and therefore has a totally different concept than midimouse (as being a normal application)… and to be honest: developing system drivers (and reverse-engeneering proprietary protocols) is a pretty difficult thing (with a very time-limited value, as you can see) that should be done either very good or better not at all ;-)
Cheers, Michael

By: DkQM

DkQM — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:48:33 +0000

Hello there,
Thanks for the hint with midibox.

http://fingamidi.sourceforge.net/

This app only works up to OSX 10.3 but has the features i described…

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:38:00 +0000

Hey DkQM,
although this is a nice idea, I don’t think it’s possible: because both the TouchPad and the Mouse control the cursor. This would require a deep system hack and would possibly make the computer unstable :-\
If you’re searching for additional controlling possibilities of Live, check out http://www.midibox.org :)
Cheers, Michael

By: DkQM

DkQM — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:47:21 +0000

Hello,
i am using midimouse with Ableton Live and it works great, very nice helpfull programm for laptop musicans. For further versions i would really love independent touchpad/ mouse controll if that would be possible.. so the touchpad could be used within midimouse and at the same time you could use the mouse to controll other parameters within the sequencer :)
thank you and good luck
would be nice to hear your response :)
DkQM

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:26:39 +0000

Well, that depends on a couple of things… getting in mail contact with you…

By: lucijan

lucijan — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:28:10 +0000

source,
hi, is it possible to obtain the sourcecode somewhere?
don’t hasitate to contact me by mail,
thank you,
lucijan

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:37:37 +0000

Stay tuned for midimouse 0.5 featuring ScrollWheel support! If you own an Apple MightyMouse® or a Griffin PowerMate® this might be the tool you're looking for to control your MIDI-tunes. Anyone interested in beta-testing, please drop me a line!

By: Apple

Apple — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:07:57 +0000

midimouse is a small, easy-to-use and very simple program. It sends MIDI-controller-messages (CC) by moving the mouse over its window. [...]

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:08:59 +0000

So, here’s the universal binary and a demo-video.
Don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you have questions!
Enjoy midimouse 0.4…

By: :: zeichensprecher ::

:: zeichensprecher :: — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:00:24 +0000

[...] Download: Projektseite: midimouse at audiocommander.de Direktlink (Achtung! Es könnte eine neuere Version auf der Projektseite vorhanden sein! – There could be a newer version on the midimouse project page!): midimouse_050310_0.2.dmg.gz (328 kb) [...]

By: audiocommander

audiocommander — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:24:06 +0000

if anyone is interested in a universal binary for intel-macs, please leave a message here!