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As an initial project, thinking about creating a program that bypasses most of the host capabilities of EigenD and provides something quite stripped down.

Basically, it will communicate controller data from the harp and will send led data to the harp.

The leds will be addressable via OSC commands.

The controller data will be received raw at which point I will have to put together enough components in EigenD to probably do jitter reduction, throttling etc. I'm assuming that velocity detection is done in EigenD as well. I haven't discovered those pieces yet. Once I have a clean stream of controller data, this will be sent over OSC.

The third component would be a MaxForLive plugin that connects to the OSC stream. Eventually this could be written as a VST/AU as well. Actually, I think Bidule can even provide this type of thing as a plugin with very little coding necessary.

This is definitely more or a monome, manta, soundplane way of getting data into any host, but it allows for arbitrary applications to be developed rather than ones based on EigenD soley.

Thoughts?

haha, yeah and I agree.

There seem to be two valid approaches. The MAX external approach is similar to Manta for example.

I looked at your conceptual MAX patch. Looks good. One way to do the input is to bang it with a metro so it's polling every couple ms or so.

I'm just as interested in having the output external too to light the keys.

But I have to admit that the OSC approach is nice too.

I don't want to replace EigenD completely. A lightweight configuration that runs as a background process and is an OSC server would be ideal IMO. Similar to what monome did with serialOSC.

Bottom line, I just would like to play with the source right now, so a simple goal is fine for the moment.

Will definitely share as I go along.