TabTone is a program which converts a standard Wacom graphics tablet into a MIDI instrument.
This project aims to map pen strokes on a Wacom graphics tablet (such as Graphire2) into MIDI notes, using the Linux Wacom Project and ALSA Sequencer APIs. (In the future it may well be converted to JACK's MIDI interface, once it becomes available.) It differs from projects such as FingaMIDI in that it does not simply convert the axes of the pad into arbitrary channel controllers, but rather generates actual MIDI note events based on the direction of the strokes. In other words, it attempts to function as a real musical instrument rather than as a mixer-style (volume, pan, etc.) parameter adjuster. The software is being written in C++ under Linux using the said APIs.
At this point, TabTone is simply proof-of-concept. It works, just not well yet :-) I'd like development to continue until it becomes a [semi-]viable instrument.
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tabtone/