Modality

2010–2015 — Jeff Carey), Bjørnar Habbestad, Marije Baalman, Alberto de Campo, Wouter Snoei, Till Bovermann, Miguel Negrão, Robert van Heumen, Hannes Hoelzl, Tim Blechmann, Amelie Hinrichsen, Dominik Hildebrand Marques Lopes, Tijs Ham

The modality team came together to simplify the creation of personal electronic instruments using controllers of various kinds. They hence conceptualised a common interface for controller integration in SuperCollider and implemented it as the Modality Toolkit.

The name Modality arose from the idea to scaffold the creation of modal interfaces, i.e. to create interfaces where one physical controller can be used for different purposes and it is possible to switch its functionality, even at runtime. It is our believe that integration of such on-the-fly remapping features helps to create a setup much more flexible, powerful, and interesting to play. Such a modal interface allows to cope with fast changes of overall direction as it can be necessary when e.g. improvising with musicians playing acoustic instruments.

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The central thought behind the Modality-toolkit is to simplify creation of individual (electronic) instruments with SuperCollider, using controllers of various kinds. To this end, a common code interface, MKtl, is used for connecting controllers from various sources (and protocols). These are atm. HID, MIDI, and OSC.

Check how to use and install.