Equipment

Resources available at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory are divided in four main areas:

• Motion capture systems
• Controllers and sound synthesis workstations
• Electronics developemnt equipment
• Audio and computing resources

• Vicon System 460 optical tracker with 6 M2 cameras (up to 1000 fps) and various Vicon software packages (Workstation, Polygon, Real-time, Body-builder, iQ);
• Polhemus Liberty 8 magnetic tracker;
• Several HD and MiniDV digital video cameras (Sony, JVC, Canon)
• Video analysis using Eyesweb, Musical Gestures Toolbox, Jitter…

• ACROE's Modular Feedback Keyboard - ERGOS (8 keys and 4 keys)
• Serge de Laubier's Méta-instrument (3rd generation)
• Phantom Desktop and Omni force-feedback devices, proSense software by Handshake.
• Buchla Lightning II, Mathews' Radio Baton, Jazz Mutant's Lemur, MiniMoog Voyager, Yamaha WX5 wind controller and synthesis module, Tactex pad, Wacom tablets (standard and LCD), Dimension Beam, Roland v-Drums TD12 kit, various synthesizers (Nord Lead and Modular, Roland SH202, MiniMoog Voyager, etc.), among many others.
• Several sensor to MIDI interfaces, including Infusion Systems' iCubeX and Wireless MiniDig, IRCAM's AtoMIC Pro and Ethersense, Electrotap's Teabox, and La Kitchen's Kroonde Gamma.
• Kyma/Capybara workstation
• Various Macintosh workstations running Cycling 74's Max/MSP, Jitter and Pluggo, Applied Acoustics' Tassman, Lounge Lizzard, String Studio and Ultra Analog, PD, among others;

• Various National Instruments accquisition cards (14, 16 and 24 bits) (compact flash, PCMCIA and PCI).
• GPIB enabled workstation with Agilent 33220A 20 MHz arbitrary function generator, Agilent E3631A Triple Output DC Power Supply, HP/Agilent Agilent 34401A 6.5-Digit Digital Multimeter, and Tektronix TDS2014 4-channel color digital storage oscilloscope
• Workstations including BK Precision 5492 Dual-Display Bench Digital Multimeter, BK Precision 1760A Triple Output DC Power Supply, BK Precision 4040A 20 MHz Sweep/Function Generator with Frequency Counter, and Tektronix TDS1002 2-channel digital storage oscilloscope
• Labview software (Signal Processing and Sound and Vibration Toolkits)
• Matlab, Simulink, Signal Processing, and Real-time Workshop Toolboxes
• Circuit Maker
• Tektronix WaveStarTM Software for Oscilloscopes

• Tascam DM24 digital mixer
• Eight Dynaudio BM15A speakers
• Motu 896 and 828 audio interfaces
• Digidesign Digi002 interface

• Apple dual 2.3GHz G5 Xserve
• Apple 5.6Tbytes Xserve RAID
• Qualstar 6Tbytes tape backup system
• Macintosh, Windows and Linux PCs