JOYSTICK MIDI CONVERTER BLUETOOTH
Apparently Wii controllers use bluetooth to communicate, but you have to hack the windows bluetooth stack to detect a wii controller. Of all the available controllers on PC, Wii controllers look most promising, imho. Someone has done it and I'm pretty sure Carl Kenner was involved, if not directly responsible. I've been lurking in the Wii aisles ever since, wating for a extra controllers to show up on the shelves so that I can try it myself. I believe that Carl Kenner worked out a procedure for using a Wii controller to drive GlovePIE. And many hundreds of dollars for the next cheapest glove on the market isn't going to happen, I'm afraid. Something really magic happens when you wave your hand around to control things that doesn't happen when you teak knobs and sliders and joysticks and XY pads. My experience with the P5 glove has convinced me that mid-air 3D motion input is a huge thing for performance electronics. P5 Gloves are cheap ($20-$50), and very cool, but may be a bit too flaky for realtime musical control.
JOYSTICK MIDI CONVERTER PC
Joysticks and PC gamepads work well USB mice and keyboards, probably less so (they're "special", and it's difficult - if not impossible - to make Windows not treat them as mice or keyboards. Getting everything properly configured to start off with is a bit challenging but it works well, once you've got it all set up, and it certainly doesn't lack flexibility. Originally written to support the P5 Glove, GlovePIE will also support a wide variety of other input devices as well.
JOYSTICK MIDI CONVERTER SOFTWARE
This software converts USB HID device input (probably all USB controllers that you can buy off the shelf today) to MIDI and then you would need a Midi loopback device to go from GlovePIE into Reaktor. Not without a little bit of extra software. Sure I will google it when I get a chance but one of you guys may have already found the best ones.Click to expand.No. More to the point is there any hard and fast resource for this type of thing? Really what I was wondering I guess is whether there is a universal standard for colours for the wiring in joystick plugs and if so which way would I have to do it with USB?Īnother consideration is that the joystick is 15 pin and USB is only 4 - so does that mean only 4 from the joystick would work, or is it 8 +/- or is that why you'd need an interface of some kind? I've made crossover ethernet cable this way before which worked fine Well I actually worked for an AV installation company for a few months and we had to solder USB plugs, it's not as difficult as you might thinkīut the buffer point might be worth consideringīesides, I was more just thinking of hacking the cable and wrapping the cables and pvc taping them! crude and short term I know, but maybe less of a pain than trapsing around looking for one of those plugs which for some reason I feel would not exactly be on every corner here in Brisbane! i might be wrong though they might have them at DSE whcih is nearby, but it is more something I'm going to just piss about with in the evening when I have a spare minute, not sure I would find time for it in the day. Get one of those converter-boxes, they should be cheap, even in Oz Machinate wrote:Forge, I really think you should stay away from diy'ing it - a port-converter might be buffered, and EXTREMELY fiddly to do yourself - I have never soldered onto a usb-plug, but I would expect it to be damned near impossible to do properly, even if you're an experienced solder-freak. Thing is, does a port converter just connect the wires of one to another? if so in theory I could take an old USB cable I can cut up and just join the right coloured wires together - that would be an easy way - and I have an old sliced up USB cable I'd just need to know the colours to match
I am using a gamepad (two joysticks, 12 buttons, glows in the dark, $15) with a PS/2->USB converter and Rejoice ( ), which I found to be the most flexible and reliable of joystick-to-MIDI programs. Not sure about the hardware, you'd propably be best off with a port converter (to connect to serial/USB) and then a software to read off the analog data.
Forge wrote:I bought an old joystick from a charidee shop for $1.80 and then realised my laptop doesnt have a joystick port, but I'm wondering the ins and outs of slicing the plug off and sticking a midi pulg on it - would I get any signal from it? and then if so could I use some utility like bidule or whatever (a freeware one would be nice) to tell the computer what to do with that signal?