Laser Strings

What you need

For this walkthrough, you will need:

• A WiDig with power supply (USB cable or USB battery pack)
• A Flash sensor
• A ReachCloseD
• A SeeLaser-GreenWide or any laser of your choice
• An iPad (or other iOS device) running GarageBand

Hardware Setup

First, plug in the ReachCloseD into input 1, The Flash into input 2, and the laser into any other slot:

Next, connect the WiDig via a micro-USB cable to a charged USB battery pack, or a USB power supply.

Pairing for Configuration

Follow either the Mac OS or Windows instructions below:

Mac OSX

Open Audio MIDI Setup under Applications/Utilities

Go to "MIDI Studio":

Double click the Bluetooth icon:

Select the WiDig device, and press the "connect" button:

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EditorX Configuration

Now its time to set up the sensors to map to MIDI messages. In the example, we emit two parameters:

1.) The ReachCloseD's distance value is mapped to pitch bend

2.) The Flash sensor emits a note on/off pair when the laser light is interrupted