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I've got one of these. I swear by it. If you saw me in my studio, all alone except for my cat, with this thing on and Reaktor 5's Spacedrone instrument being controlled by it... you'd probably laugh almost as hard as I eventually did. However, as for direct and precise control of a DAW? I wouldn't recommend it. Probably why it died at a game controller. Too squirrley. I've seen cool things done with a Wii Remote (call it a Wiimote and Nintendo will FAIL your game up for cert) but again, high on fun, low on precision. I know the OP voiced concern about the tri color lights of the APC40 that depict the idle/play/record states of a clip in Live, but I wonder if that would be something easy to disable. Painted over? Have someone good with electronics replace the lights with resistors? I wonder if there's a type of diode that could vibrate slightly to indicate it's state. I'll ask my friend who designs electronic devices if he knows of something. I'm sure there's a solution. The world is full of electromagnetic radiation that's out of the visual range for people with site. I'm surrounded by devices that pour it out all over the place. It's also full of things that use lights as indicators. It's the nature of our reality. I'm not trying to be disrespectful or flip. It's just that Ableton and Akai spent a bunch of time making a dedicated controller for their software and we're talking about using a P5 data glove instead? It's just silly. Get the APC40, have the lights removed if they frighten you and spent time having fun making music. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Rainer Straschill<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote: > About the P5 data glove, Bill had this to say: > "Wow that actually sounds really cool do you have a link for that >Rainer?" > > This seems to be something like the manufacturer's site: > http://www.vrealities.com/P5.html > > Some years ago, I got one at a kind of blowout sale for some $16, > including some computer games which can be controlled with it. > I have to admit that although it would be utterly cool to control > modular synths especially (and also effects with some self-done UI), I > haven't done too much in that direction. > > The fun starts here: > http://www.simulus.org/p5glove/ > > A site which offers (or links to) several drivers and applications > which generate MIDI data, interface with Reaktor etc. > > Incidentially, just the other day a friend (who's also on this list > btw) sent me a link to a package which interfaces this glove to PD > under Linux: > http://www.noisybox.net/computers/p5glove/ > > Now, for some eye/earcandy: you may simply search youtube etc > yourself, but here's some funny stuff: > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLFEOl9hNU&feature=PlayList&p=C5863259B3188D31&index=27 > The Nord Modular G2X obviously lends itself to the idea of using it > with that interface. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uleNZXNACJM > For some ambient, virtual reality kind of use > > Gee, I've got to dig mine out again... > > As a sidenote, this is an USB device - which needs you need a computer > to use it with a hardware synth/effect, and you need a driver for your > OS. > > Best, > > Rainer > >