Update

Since the move back to Director, things have been very fraught and extremely busy. I haven’t used it for a while, and I am annoyed by how buggy and temperamental it seems to be. Notwithstanding this, the work is being done and there is a visual piece of increasing complexity in development. I’m using Myron/WebCamXtra to get the live video in, and the XMidi Xtra to receive MIDI data from Max/MSP, where all the sensing is being done. So, we have a Processing sketch running Carnivore, which sends data to Max/MSP via MaxLink, which gets converted to MIDI and sent to Director using XMidi. In addition, we have Max/MSP reading variable amplitude from some contact microphones, converting to MIDI, and sending on to Director, and finally, we have input from the iCube, which is MIDI being sent via Max/MSP to Director. This was an interesting problem – it seems that you can only open one MIDI channel using the XMidi Xtra, so the iCube input had to be filtered through Max/MSP to be sent on the same channel as the rest of the MIDI data.

And for my next trick, I will juggle all the components…

The Max Patch