Power Glove

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For those who are familiar with the MAX 3.5 music programming language, it
comes with an object that allows you to reroute incoming power glove info
into MIDI data or whatever you want to use it for.  This makes it a lot
easier to control external synths.  I takes in the power glove data, and
spits out x,y, and z coordinates in 8-bits, using infrared sensors, as
well as glove rotation position, I believe in 8 bits, finally finger
position, in 2-bits.  It's a lot of fun to have position control filters,
rotation control pitch, and the fingers control LFO speed, portatmento,
etc.  You can create sounds with fantastic textures.  Also, the MIDI spec
1.0 says that the maximum recommended length for a MIDI cable is 50'.
After this, the capacitance of the cable rounds off the pulse edges too
much to be useful.  When chaining together devices, the problem is less
with losing data, than it is with the time delay becoming very noticable,
i.e. the first synth sounds 50 milliseconds before the last synth, which
is a VERY audible differnece.

						Elias Holman