Wacom Tablets

[hudkins]

Is it possible to use a Wacom tablet as a MIDI controller?

This is the most relevant thing I've found but it doesn't seem to work.
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/hid.html

I'm not opposed to using windoze software in Wine but anything I've come across is from the early-mid 2000s and the download links don't work or the page 404's.

Someone must be doing this...

I'm running Ubuntu Studio 14.04 and I'm trying to use a Wacom CTE-440.

[ssj71]

If synclient shows the input data you might be able to use a little program I hacked together years ago (it was my first, so its a bit rough, but works for generating midi data from the touchpad of a laptop).
https://github.com/ssj71/touchMIDI

Let me know if it works or you have issues, I haven't used it myself for a long time.

[witchspace]

Yes you can use a drawing tablet as a high-resolution pressure-sensitive XY controller with the appropriate adapter software. Did that for a while, fun to play around with fora while, but having to pick up the pen to use a MIDI controller feels a bit silly. Your milage may vary ofc.

[Metrophage]

I did this with a friend's Wacom years ago using Max/MSP on a Mac. The only fiddly part in Linux might be getting drivers configured . Then I'd use a toolbox environment such as Pure Data to make a Wacom MIDI translator patch - I'd be astonished if there wasn't already a Pd object for parsing Wacom input.

One idea I was toying with is that an older tablet with serial I/O could perhaps be converted into a standalone MIDI controller, with some work.