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!
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!
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)…
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
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
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.
