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You don´t need to have an adapter.
Just buy joystick or game controller,
with usb connection.

I bought mine as 8euros, cheap!!

The only problem with joystick
is that it´s really hard to connect
sliders for that.

You can check if you find a one
with knobs and sliders.

Either way it´s good for scratching and
speed movements. Also
you can add some effects parameter
changes on normal buttons.

cool, i'll do that...

Wow that is cool - a joypad - Does this take a lot / any bandwidth of the main USB stream?

I mean, I use two USB Webcams - so they use even more bandwidth than what is 'safe' USB - Controller bandwidth -

I do not want one of the cams crashing by overriding the safe limit:)

hi scenic,
the bandwidth your webcams use is much higher then your joystick (not compareable), your joystcik probably sends only a few bytes at a time.
so i think you won't have any problems with that.

cheers
Edwin

yes you can convert your joystick to a midi signal (and it will work in Resolume), but no it isn't really usefull. Think about it, a joystick (at least the handle) can only bend in 2 directions. The most logical thing to do with this is to adjust the framerate/blending of the active channel. So now what? Now you can adjust two parameters with a stick that rather would be mixed with two faders.

The only logical thing to do with a joystick is mixing 4 clips together (you can make 2*2 combinations) but resolume only supports three active outs. So you need to go with a program like VJo which has more flexibilty.

for that there is a tutorial available on our website: http://www.friendsofsense.com/index.php?id=01065

I have ported both a joystick and a gamepad to resolume, but there is simply nothing really worthwhile to control with it. The interface isn't flexible enought for these kind of interfaces, with a good midi controller however, resolume really is the bomb

It could be usefull with some effects though, I haven't really dug into that, but for the main interface I found it rather useless.

for forwarding midi signals from one machine to another we use midiOX by the way, which is freely available. This little program can create a 'virtual' midi controller based on several 'real' midi controllers, or a gamepad or even your keyboard and then forward it. In Resolume you then select your virtual controller and presto



[Edited on 31-10-2004 by Sense]

Sense you got nice stuff at website.

As I see it depends quite a lot what
kind of VJ:ing you use joystick or gamepad. I prefer realtime triggering
of clips and use lot of scratching and
speed movements. And for this gamepad
is really nice. Also it´s more easier to
carry for gigs than a big midikeyboards.
Either way that I love my PCR 30

Yep, and MidiOX is worth of trying.

Funny and can be useful

(after a little brain burn to understand how vMidJoy work )

i wrote a tutorial on how to use midiyoke, but vjcentral seams to be down.