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tjwett & zs_ !

You are not getting the point at all here. Absolute tracking mode means that if you put your finger on the middle of the pad the pointer goes to the middle of the screen. If you put your finger on the top left. Your finger goes to the top left of the screen. This is essential to make a good controller. Midimouse or controlAid does not provide this. Even if they are tracking the mousepointer fullscreen, it wont be remotely the same as an absolute tracking pad. All touchpads on laptops today works relatively because that is the best way to move a pointer around the screen.

Utilities that provide absolute tracking are: PC: Livelab touchpad 2 midi. Older Mac laptops: Fingamidi.

KaossPad and other midipads send absolute values.

sounds like a Wacom will do what you want then. the pointer on screen positions itself exactly where you have your pen or mouse.

Interceptor,

What you are trying to achieve sounds very cool indeed. Could you achieve this on a windows partition on your Macbook pro (if you have one)? Or would that be limited by the hardware as well?

And, what if you want to actually move the pointer as well? Or do you use the mouse as the input device for the pointer?

Best,
AB

touchpad 2 midi only works on synaptics touchpads, so the answer is no. I had it working on my pc sometime a go. As far as i remember i could use my mouse at the same time. But the software was buggy. And crashed quite often.

But im convinced this is possible on the new macbooks. And im not giving up.

It's definitely possible, this software allows you to map positions on the mouse pad to buttons, scrolling etc.

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/si ... index.html

I just don't think anyone has done it with MIDI yet.

more info:

http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/How_to ... tible_mode

I don't have a mouse with me or I'd try it out... maybe this weekend.

bidule is awesome for this.

I have use the program change on my trigger finger to remap the trackpad to different CCs.

and in Bidule is it an absolute value? I kind of doubt it, but would love to be told I'm wrong...

bigbadotis wrote:and in Bidule is it an absolute value? I kind of doubt it, but would love to be told I'm wrong...

sorry I didn't read the whole thread.

has anyone had more progress with this one? i am currently using my wacom, but putting that touchpad to waste seems like a minor shame

jeskola wrote:look for a thing called midimouse

yupp 1+ for midimouse.

but that doesn't seem to take its absolute position. its ok though.