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Using a PS-Controller for resolume...
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 13:49
by Furionic
There is a possibility to connect a PS-controller via a converter to usb...but does anybody know if it is possible to use a Playstation Controller to controll different parameters in resolume?
If it works, is it possible to asign it that i can chose my videos via controlling-cross on the joypad?
Greez out
furi
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 09:33
by levon
there is a site that shows you how to convert a PS2 controller to something you can use on a PC, and there is software that converts controllers into midi, i dont know where either of these are though
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:22
by continuity-B
I did it once, very jittery. Maybe avoid older pads tho. Smooth control is quite difficult but it was good fun for kneejerk visuals like for dnb.
Get MidiOX I think it was?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:27
by continuity-B
Just read your post more carefully...
...as for selecting vids, you can assign a clip to any button (including d-pad) but I doubt you can 'browse' the deck using the d-pad if that's what you mean.
[Edited on 23-6-2005 by continuity-B]
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 16:44
by Furionic
At least i wanted to buy one of these dance-mat controllers (you know, these mats where you can jump on and have to solve some dancing steps) and connect it to my pc via an USB-Converter.
After this i planed to asign some videos and effects to the fields on the mat so that people could jump around on it and have a kind of interaction.
@ continuity-B
Do you think this will work with the MidiOX - Programm you have posted?
I only found a programm for MacOS called junXion to convert the signals from a PS-Controller to Midi-Signals.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 17:53
by VJair
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 18:03
by continuity-B
Yes it would, a dance mat is just a psx pad squashed flat. You can use any USB input device (I plan on trying a pen+tablet) and anything you can plug into the psx pad adapter. I heard of a guy using a skateboard controller once but that's probably a bit unneccesary.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 22:15
by Furionic
Hi there back again...
i have to take this issue up again now.
Now i got everything i need (2 dance mats, one ps2usb converter box and midiox)...but i don´t get is. Maybe i´m not intelligent enough to use midiox or getting the right settings...

Does anybody know which settings have to be made, that i`m abled to convert my signals to midi.
Midiox is allways asking about a midi-input-device...but i don´t have a f***ing midi-input-device, i just got my f***ing mats and want to use them as midi-inputs.
Be the way: the mat is being recognized by my pc so i can exclude this as possible source of error.
If anybody has some information about thins for me i would be so thankfull that i would run into the next church and burn some candles for you!!!
I need this mats on friday...so time is running!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 22:24
by asbach
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:03
by Furionic
Thanks,
i also had tried VMIDIJoy...no effect
after hours of searching, trying and beating my head against my computer screen i finally found this:
http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/joy2midi/
It is very easy to handle so i was abled to configure one of my mats for resolume. Since now i haven´t tried to do it with both of my mats because it got allready late yesterday. I will try it today, but my feeling is wispering me, that it will only work with one controller.
So maybe i´ll have to go deeper in midiox...
We´ll see.
I will leave my results here for later generations of dissapointed vj´s
