bosone Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosone Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 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! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jidis Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 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.htmlHe's got source on there too.Take Care (and happy 222) :)George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiocommander Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 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/artistsAt 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 ;Drgds,Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 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 ;DRowan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiocommander Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 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. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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