Thursday, May 8, 2008

MidiMouse now for OS X

"MidiMouse is a small, easy-to-use and very simple program. It sends MIDI-controller-messages (CC) by moving the mouse over its window. While moving the cursor (with or without mouseDown) over the X-/Y-axxis, each axxis sends a CC, so you might send values within up to 4 configurable Controllers.

So, what's it for if you've never heard of CC's?

You can make music with it! Just connect it as a MIDI-Controller (input) to your hardware-synthesizers or software-programs (eg. Ableton LIVE, Propellerheads Reason, …) and you can control the effects by moving your mouse — on a small screensize or even on full screen. If midimouse is in “click-trough” mode, you can even still reach the underlying controls! It’s like a virtual KAOSS-Pad!

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC or Intel

Additional Requirements:
Installed MIDI driver
Any MIDI software (otherwise midimouse is quite useless...)

Note: MidiMouse 0.3 for Mac OS X 10.3 is still available for download on the developer's site!"