Pitchbend with Game Joystick ?

Design Concepts
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Hi !

How about a big game joystick as a pitchbend controller ?  ;D

Iam a total midi noob but maybe you can help me to get this

thing done.

I want to connect this controller between my keyboard and tritone rack

as a cool gimmik to pitch with that big joystick.

I think I have to build a circuit which converts the joystick signal into MidiPitch messages

for my rack..

but how ?

Anyone had the same idea and did it ?

greetings,

Mammo

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I think your Joystick uses pots (perhaps even 10k)

http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_ain.html

connect your pots directly to the AIN. - No need to convert any digital format.

Greets, Roger

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thank you ! But what are “pots” ? Do you mean Ports ?

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Pot is short for potentiometer :slight_smile:

If you’re not too sure what that means, I’d recommend running a search for some Electronic basics links :wink:

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…or this one:

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=questions_and_answers#what_s_the_difference_between_pots_sliders_motorfaders_and_encoders

:wink:

hmm… lecker… marmorkuchen…

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Pot is short for potentiometer :slight_smile:

ah okay I see :slight_smile: thank you !

So I connect the pots of my Joystick (to get the X/Y position of it) with the AIN, which is

a multiplexer module. But where to go with these signals after it ?

Mammo

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But where to go with these signals

:-\ it has all been written down before. You should really read some basics.

If your questions become more specific; then the answers will be more specific, too:

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php#general

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php#basics

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=introduction_to_ucapps.de

The main question is, if you want to hack some existing application like mb64 or if you just need one pitchBend in your custom box, that means if you want to hack (or better: midify) your joystick.

In this case you should check out the AppDev C-Code pages, too:

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=application_development

regards,

Michael