AsTeRICS is a software framework to build assistive software solutions with a graphical editor. You might use it for different purposes, for example webcam based mouse control, smart home interfacing, biosignal processing and many many more (over 140 plugins are available).

Just have a look into the examples (start the ARE - AsTeRICS Runtime Environment).

You can download the full distribution here:

https://github.com/asterics/asterics/releases/latest

The download already contains the JavaVM, which is necessary to run AsTeRICS.

After the installation (which should be straight forward, otherwise please open up an issue :-)), you have 2 new programs available:

• ACS - AsTeRICS Configuration Suite: this program is used to connect to an ARE instance, load a model, modify & run it. Unfortunately, the ACS is Windows only by now, we are working on a web-based solution
• ARE - AsTeRICS Runtime Environment: this program contains the actual program logic with all plugins. A model will run automatically on start-up providing different examples

If you want, have a look into the /ACS/models folder, which contains many different examples (some of them need additional hardware, many of them do not).

Download the full Chordion&FreakyTricky archive from this project's files.

The installation procedure is described in ReadMe.txt. Just in case, these steps are necessary:

• Install PD from this archive (do not download a newer version, unfortunately it does not work with our files)
• Install the LoopBe1 driver (download here: http://www.nerds.de/en/download.html)
• Open one of the PD files from this package (either Chordion.pd or Freaky_Tricky.pd)
• Setup the MIDI device in PD: Media->MIDI Setup->Output device 1: LoopBe Internal MIDI
• Close PD again
• Execute the music setup via "Music_start.bat" (this batch file opens both PD files)
• Run the AsTeRICS Model (either musicSyncthFacetracker if you want to use a Webcam or eyex_lipmouse_combined if you want to use a FLipMouse and a Tobii EyeX)
• Play your instrument :-)