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| Robotkid |
 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:21 pm |
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Hey gang,
What apps are people using for generating midi data with their PC joysticks these days?
I've got some bad ideas I want to mess with...heh heh heh.
Thanks,
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| Jaymis |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:51 pm |
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| I've previously used Hubi's Midi Joystick which does what it says it does. I've always thought having someone geeking it on stage with a big joystick could look really cool, but never actually seen anyone go there. Hmm. |
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| Robotkid |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:49 am |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:09 pm |
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FL Studio has the only integrated support for joysticks I've seen.
Lately, I've been using the hui object in Max/MSP which supports just about anything USB. That's a nice way of doing things, because you can scale / reassign to anything you want. I think there may be a similar object in Pd, but I haven't tried it.
I have a little wireless Logitech gamepad (PS2 ripoff) which is handy to have around. Haven't done anything terribly useful with it just yet -- that comes when I build a Flash game for it! |
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| cebec |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:02 pm |
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this topic just came up on the Nord Modular mailing-list. here's what someone found:
http://vellocet.com/software/VMIDIJoY.html
the Hubi one was mentioned, as well.
i think i'm forgetting another one, though... |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:12 pm |
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Oh, that's using an actual joystick port, though, for older computer joysticks. I was assuming USB.
The other major software solution for doing this on the Mac side is junXion from STEIM:
http://www.steim.org/steim/junxion_v2.html
. . . which also supports OSC output.
Though, again, any app that supports HUI USB devices (like game controllers, keyboards, etc.) can deal with the data as-is. It depends on what you're trying to use it with. |
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| cebec |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:04 pm |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:14 pm |
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Oooh, cool. And that should work nicely with PCs with joystick ports. (Plus, there are still Mac adapters to be found.)
I don't see why someone couldn't write new basic drivers for inputs, either; really shouldn't be that hard. Might make for a good project for learning CoreMIDI since there isn't a simple Mac driver. On the PC, there seem to be a couple of alternatives.
Do let us know which of these actually, you know, work right. |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:34 pm |
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I mean "hi" not "HUI" -- hi = Human Interface for USB, HUI is the control surface from Mackie. Darned acronyms.
Anyway, Max users, type hi into a patcher and see what happens. Pd users do in fact have a solution, which I'm going to try out:
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/hid.html
And there are a number of useful solutions, from rotating OpenGL 3D space to controlling X/Y synth parameters with force feedback. 
I think getting the force feedback end in is absolutely essential. Any of these PC drivers do that? |
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| Yasha |
| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:48 am |
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| emulatorxone |
| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 2:24 pm |
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http://www.fireballtrailers.com/rejoice/
"Rejoice turns your Joystick or P5 Glove into a MIDI controller."
Nice because it works well this all sorts of game joysticks, PLUS the P5 Glove (which is completely wonky, but fun).
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| landfill |
| Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:25 am |
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This is great! I just mapped a load of the buttons from my Logitech Wingman, un-used for years, using Rejoice.
Live beatslicing with a joystick is ridiculously fun.  |
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| midipixel |
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:44 am |
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Thanks for all this info guys. I'll give rejoice a try when I find the time. Never had imagined ths possibility of controling MIDI through a joystick. Seems great!  |
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| Tonmeister |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:52 pm |
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I'm using ControllerMate
http://orderedbytes.com/controllermate/
to send keyboard commands to Logic and Reason from an old USB Gravis controller, a second USB keyboard and a second USB mouse. Very handy for recording, I'm trying to figure out how it will be used in a live setting.
The basic app is free to try out. It was $10 to enable more commands to be programmed. It works fine in trial mode for testing stuff out with only a few commands and I was able to test my devices before buying it. Anyone on OS X should check it out. I bought it, works great. The developer just released a beta of version 4 as well. |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:51 pm |
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