a new "midi keyboard" concept...

[bosone]

hi!

in a flea market, i found an old playstation 1 joypad for 2.5 euro... it has a lot of buttons!

i opened it, removed all the chips, resistors, and so on, and i simply directl connected every single button to a midibox 64E DIN input using an old PC parallel port cable!

not too difficult, indeed!

now i use it to trigger notes events... a strange way to play but, neverthelss, funny and cheap! ;-)

PS: i assigned notes events to the different keys completely random, based on a natural C scale (C,D,E,F... no accidents). playing basslines and synth lines "randomly" may be inspiring!

[bosone]

after the first "games",  i decided to use this thing as a "Live controller" to automate the sequencer... now i can play/stp/record/move thru measures with this joypad! ;-)

[Jidis]

Bosone,

Don't know if you've already seen it, but there's a 16f84 project which can take you directly to MIDI, if you ever want to use it without the core:

http://kaele.com/~kashima/games/bmconv/index-e.html

He's got source on there too.

Take Care (and happy 222) :)

George

[audiocommander]

actually, I've been exhibiting recently and there's also been an artist named Julian Oliver (see Fjiuu), that made a really nice piece using a PS2-Controller and just OSS (I haven't checked yet, but he told me they'd release their software)...

It's exhibited in London until 20th May:

http://www.cybersonica.org/artists

At Cybersonica you'll also find a PSP-Controller and an iScratch (iPod that can scratch)... but that's for the ones with a few more bucks in the pocket  ;D

rgds,

Michael

[Rowan]

Wow!

From the Demo video Fjiuu looks amazing! The source code is online too. If it could respond to MIDI it would be a great tool for VJing. Imaging that and Quartz Composer running side by side  ;D

Rowan

[audiocommander]

Yeah! I had the luck to play with it; it's really a great piece of work.

The controller seems to do a good job for musical control.

I just have taken a look at the small video of the website and noticed that there is no sound. The exhibition piece is more a musical sequencing tool than a plain visualizer. ;)