Hello all,

I just finished building an FTIR surface + stand and am just waiting for a sheet of Rosco Grey which I plan to coat with silicone (after I practice on a few scrap sheets of paper first).

I have a lot of experience in software development (Mac/Win/Linux, C/C++/Obj-C/Java) and my main area of interest is in using the surface for music production/audio engineering (have some work on the go already).

If anyone’s reading this, I’m curious as to how/why Flash/AS has become the main environment for work?  I understand that it’s a fast prototyping environment, and that it’s cross-platform for the most part, but overall it seems quite limiting as compared to native development environments.  I’ve been looking into Touche and that seems more in the direction I’d like to go.

Hi and welcome! Glad to have you from one audio person to another hehe!

As for the flash/as3 question, flash/as3 hasn’t become the main environment for work. It happens to be the most developed framework as of right now and thus you’ll see more people using it. There are plans in the works that’ll help the community build to a unified framework with other lower level languages in mind.

BTW, I believe Touche is only a tracking application, not a framework for developing applications.

cerupcat - 04 September 2008 10:17 PM

BTW, I believe Touche is only a tracking application, not a framework for developing applications.

While it does have a nice interface for setting up/calibrating tracking, there’s also a framework for getting tracking data into Cocoa apps.  It also supports TUIO as of the latest beta, which seems to be the best way to go for cross-platform work.

Welcome discotek
Any pictures of your work?

As far as the multitouch work, it’s a bit of a tricky balance between professional and personal right now.  Hopefully I’ll have something to show more publicly soon though.

For other (mostly unrelated) work, probably the most well-known project in recent times is the now-outdated Mac iPhone jailbreaking app iNdependence.  I also spent some time playing around with iPhone development, but the surface is just too small for my needs.  Hence me jumping into the FTIR world.

In the distant past, I did quite a bit of work with Firewire and libdc1394 on Linux.  Which is now coming back to help me on this project since libdc1394 has been ported to Mac.

So yeah, that’s the notable points of my resume in a nutshell.

Great to have you on board discotek… im from Mississauga