====== 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 development equipment
  * Audio and computing resources

===== Motion Capture equipment =====

  * 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);
  * [[http://www.polhemus.com/?page=Motion_Liberty|Polhemus Liberty 8]] magnetic tracker;
  * Several [[http://www.xsens.com/en/general/mtx|XSens MTx]] nodes and two [[http://www.xsens.com/en/general/xbus-kit|XSens XBus wireless interface]] (in collaboration with the Realtime Multimodal Lab.)
  * Several HD and MiniDV digital video cameras (Sony, JVC, Canon)

===== Force-feedback Devices, Controllers and Sound Synthesis workstations =====

  * [[http://www.ergos-technologies.com/|ACROE's Modular Feedback Keyboard - ERGOS (8 keys and 4 keys)]] 
  * SensAble's [[http://www.sensable.com/haptic-phantom-premium-6dof.htm|Phantom Premium 1.5/6 DOF HF]], [[http://www.sensable.com/haptic-phantom-desktop.htm|Phantom Desktop]] and [[http://www.sensable.com/haptic-phantom-omni.htm|Phantom Omni]] force-feedback devices.
  * Two [[http://www.mpb-technologies.ca/mpbt/haptics/hand_controllers/freedom/description.html|MPB Technologies Freedom 6S]] (left and right hand) (hosted at CIRMMT)
  * Serge de Laubier's Méta-instrument (3rd generation)
  * 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.
  * Kyma/Capybara workstation

===== Electronics development equipment =====

  * Various National Instruments acquisition 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)

===== Audio and computing resources =====

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