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whenever a news site or blog runs a story about one of these alternative controllers, the naysayers crawl out of the slime and start whining “there’s no way I could ever learn to play that”, “it has too many buttons and it scares me”, “I invested in keyboard lessons and I’m not throwing away all that investment”, etc etc. The simple fact that the Jankó design was MEANT TO BE EASIER TO PLAY….they don’t care. Musicians are so conservative it’s disgusting.

Paul von Janko was born in western Hungary in 1856. He was trained as a mathematician and became a musician and engineer, studying under physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. In 1882, he patented a new form of keyboard layout, designed to allow the player to cover a wider span of notes with each hand and to make all keys equally easy to play. Janko's keyboard drew upon earlier designs by Conrad Henfling (1708), Johann Rohleder (1791) and William Lunn (1843). He used short narrow keys akin to buttons, and stacked them up to form six tiers. The notes were arranged in whole-tone intervals. The first tier, the third and the fifth play a whole-tone scale beginning from C. The secound, fourth and sixth tiers play a whole-tone scale beginning from C#. The shape and fingering of a given scale or chord is the same in any key and the octave span is reduced to 5" as opposed to 6-1/2" on a normal piano. In 1886, RW Kurka incorporated a Janko keyboard into a piano, and Paul von Janko himself demonstrated it in Vienna, playing works by Liszt, Schubert, and Chopin.

The Joystick Wrapper library (libjsw) is designed to provide a uniform API and user configuration for joysticks and other game controllers on all platforms

Khagan is a live user interface builder for controling parameters via OSC.

PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps.

from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer,SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler class ExtendedXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): #only allow a request for the crossdomain file #this can be changed to support GETs of any file if needed if self.path != '/crossdomain.xml': self.send_response(403) self.log_request(403) return #open the crossdomain file and read its contents f = file('crossdomain.xml', 'r') msg = f.read() f.close() #write the data to the socket along with valid HTTP headers res = 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nDate: %s\r\n\r\n%s' % \ (self.date_time_string(),msg) self.wfile.write(res) self.log_request(200) class EchoClass: def echo(self, data): return data #create an instance of the class s = EchoClass() #create the server on localhost server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(('', 8000), ExtendedXMLRPCRequestHandler) #register the instance as a web service server.register_instance(s) #start accepting requests server.serve_forever()

The main part of it contains a list which I have compiled over a number of years of companies that make input devices and technologies. I have done this as part of the research for a book which I am preparing.