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Shame nothing come of this. The idea of a controller for the Pocket Pc was very attractive. A kind of Kaoss controller to replace my existing XY Joystick, nothing complex or bloated just a simple system that creates the appropriate cc values when you run your finger across the PPC screen.

The problem with a complex manipulation system from the PPC platform is that it only allows a single XY coordinate to be registered at a single moment, this is essentially the same as moving a mouse but on a smaller screen.

GafferUK, I did see a future for this idea and having used the same midi toolkit you were using I soon found that fast changing cc midi data was too much for it to handle. Replacing it with a c++ dll for the midi and .net for the main program solved this. I think the community could quite happily support your idea but maybe if it was in a much simpler form.

Just my 2c

another great idea goes wrong... or does it? i dunno - the simple idea of using your pda to control midi stuff seemed a good one, but building a whole new plugin architecture seems like reinventing the wheel. will this still be able to do the simple task of acting as a midi controller that got everyone excited in the first place?

[edit - thinking more about this, your new idea may give us more flexibility...]