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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);
- Polhemus Liberty 8 magnetic tracker;
- Several XSens MTx nodes and two 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
- Two 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