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d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:15 am
by wayoftheworld
right so i'm looking to possibly make a diy midi controller. i've found a few things on google about this but wanted to see if any of you guys have done this sorta thing? if so, what are you using and how easy was it to convert to midi controller?
i'm using ableton live so it would be cool to have something with lotsa buttons to trigger clips. i did happen to come across a link on how to use a gamepad video game controller as midi controller using a max/msp patch -- the controller itself looks like a generic playstation controller an has those dual joysticks which would be pretty cool for doing x/y stuff. any experience with video game controllers would be much appreciated since it probably wouldn't be too cost worthy to do..
any one know if its possible to turn a cheap casio keyboard into a midi controller?
any links/recommendations are much appreciated
peace
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:38 am
by tripwire22
what if u could use that
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:05 am
by nowaysj
Was just watching some diy midi controller for ableton porn on utub and what they said was that the controller transmits hid on the usb buss, and u need an application to turn hid to midi that is usable by ableton.
NE one use Bome's?
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:25 am
by cloak and dagger
There's a program called Joy2Midi that converts any joystick/gamepad into midi...it can be SLIGHTLY tricky to use at first, but the options available for setup are pretty decent. You might need MidiYoke also with it.
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:07 pm
by wayoftheworld
tripwire22 wrote:
what if u could use that
damn i wonder if that's usb?
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:49 am
by tripwire22
nah doubt it goes right into the old xbox but maybe there is some converter
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:55 am
by symmetricalsounds
tripwire22 wrote:nah doubt it goes right into the old xbox but maybe there is some converter
old xbox can be made into usb very easily
http://www.darkplanets.co.uk/product_in ... medium=PPC
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:02 am
by psylent
Is it possible to turn an Xbox 360 pad in to a midi controller?
As one of my pads is USB.
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:47 am
by tripwire22
psylent wrote:Is it possible to turn an Xbox 360 pad in to a midi controller?
As one of my pads is USB.
yes it is do some searching on the forums cuz there were atleast 2 topics on this i saw a while back
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:45 am
by morro_e
tripwire22 wrote:psylent wrote:Is it possible to turn an Xbox 360 pad in to a midi controller?
As one of my pads is USB.
yes it is do some searching on the forums cuz there were atleast 2 topics on this i saw a while back
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:20 am
by Inphluenzicc
Actually it's also possible to convert a wii controller into a wireless controller. I'm planning on doing that later this month when my paycheck arives finally (lol)
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:59 pm
by gnome
Inphluenzicc wrote:Actually it's also possible to convert a wii controller into a wireless controller. I'm planning on doing that later this month when my paycheck arives finally (lol)
Any links on that?
Re: d.i.y. midi controller
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:14 pm
by Hurtdeer
i made a messy max/msp patch (mac) a while ago which basically does the xbox 360 controller to midi conversion thing... if anyone has max/msp and wants it