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Isadora Users

Mark Coniglio—Isadora was first created for use by Troika Ranch, the media intensive dance theater company he co-directs.

Avante-garde theater company The Wooster Group will be using Isadora in their next production in New York City.

Sensory Hardware

OSCulator is a great software that will read data from up to four Nintendo Wii Controllers, and sent the data to Isadora via Open Sound Control.

ICubeX from Infusion Systems — the I-CubeX converts input from a wide variety of sensors (sliders, buttons, flex, pressure, distance and more) and to MIDI messages that can be used to control Isadora or XMidi.

MidiTron: Eric Singer's MidiTron is an inexpensive board that takes analog input and converts it to MIDI for use within Isadora. The manual contains instructions on how to connect various types of sensors to the MidiTron.

MIDISense: Limor Fried also creates inespensive analog to MIDI boards. See information about her open-source MIDISense project here.

Doepfer Electronics: Take a look at their "Pocket" series of MIDI sliders as well as the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Pocket Electronic.

If yoiu are interested in creating your own sensory hardware (or even if you just need to know how to solder) take a look at the NYU's marvelous Physical Computing Page.

DMX Control

LanBoxLC from CDS advanced technology — the LanBox is an innovative controller for professional lighting systems that use the DMX protocol. Isadora now features special actors that allow control of the LanBox LC over a local area network, via serial output, or via MIDI. Download information and examples here.

Projector Shutters

When making live performances, the ability to prevent any light from eminating from your video projector can be important. We have personally used a DMX controllable projector shutter from Mads Wahlberg with great success. Highly recommended. They also make several other interesting devices that can be controlled with DMX.