Controlling Live with a Xbox pad

[iamadam]

Million points for someone who can point out an old thread or point me in the right direction. I've got the drivers from microsoft and had a quick scan around the web. Max msp pops up quite a bit but this forum is the Dogs balls for getting answers and not to mention the odd alpaca.

[deadly_habit]

get it setup as a joystick human interface device in windows then use a hid to midi app
done

[iamadam]

This little utube video will show how to make your own controller and also list some software 3/4 the way through it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAosgd9Cy6U


They say this would be the best for windows

http://otk.it/mjoy/

Key features of MJoy:
Supports two joysticks (up to 6 axis and 6 buttons for each one)

Translate joystick movements into MIDI Continuous Controller messages

Translate buttons pressure into MIDI Note on/off messages

Enhanced graphical interface with presets manager

Has a MIDI Thru option

Multithreaded design and low response time

http://otk.it/mjoy/images/screenshot.jpg

this info many came from http://www.djtechtools.com

For those who are wondering what HID is then check this page

http://www.djtechtools.com/2009/04/22/h ... f-the-end/

and you can pick up the xbox controller drivers from here

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/downl ... P1&lang=en

Right i'm of to try and make this work.

[Grubby Gnome]

ah i saw polar bear do something like this... the electronics guy uses what looked like an xbox controller to trigger samples and stuff.. pretty cool idea