Developers: Ms Pinky Wants You!
Not only does membership in Ms Pinky’s fan club provide you with the vinyl and the software you need to begin exploring the vast uncharted expanses of the Interdimensional Wrecked System, it also gives you access to Ms Pinky’s Software Developer’s Kit (SDK). Ms Pinky’s SDK enables application developers working on MacOS, PC, and Linux to create their own compiled applications incorporating Ms Pinky’s vinyl/CD motion transducer technology. The SDK contains compiled code libraries in various formats and documentation showing how to use Ms Pinky’s Vinyl Tracking Object (MPVT) in your code. Of course, users of Max/MSP can harness the same power of Ms Pinky’s Vinyl Tracking technology from within the Max/MSP environment.
1) If working on the MacOS platform, the SDK provides you with a “Universal Binary” (Apple Silicon + Intel) compiled code library which you simply link into your existing audio application. Several simple function calls need to be included at the right spots in your code, and voila– you will now have an application that can use Ms Pinky’s vinyl (or a CDJ) to control anything you can imagine! System Resource Consumption: The “Universal Binary” compiled code library is ~800 kBytes in size. On newer Apple Silicon-based machines, a single MPVT object will require less than 1% of available CPU cycles.
2) If working on the PC, the SDK provides you with a compiled library of x86 optimized code that you can link with your application. Include several simple function calls in your code, and presto– you too can have an application which uses MsPinky’s vinyl to control just about anything! System Resource Consumption: The x86 compiled code library is about 376 kBytes in size. Running on a 1.3 GHz mobile AMD AthlonXP 1500+ Sony VAIO laptop, a single MPVT object will require about 3-4% of the available CPU cycles.
3) If working on Linux, the SDK provides exactly the same access to the MPVT object as on other platforms. The code is built on Red Hat Linux using gcc-4.0.1, using the “-shared” option to create a non-executable code library that you can link in with your app.
Be the first developer on your block to get MsPinky’s amazingly easy-to-use SDK and make your application P.I.N.K.-compatible! To access the full SDK you must first join Ms Pinky’s Fan Club, which will also give you the vinyl you’ll need to start creating your own cyber-vinyl monster app.
To see a complete description of the software interface to MsPinky’s Vinyl Tracking Object (MPVT) click here…..