Video game joysticks for midi cc's?

[Grizzellda]

Hi, I would like to use a video game joystick to send midi messages and control stuff.

These joysticks seem well built, like the ones for airplane games, dogfights, jet fighters, that sort of thing.

Is anyone making software that could convert the joystick data to midi?

[BertKoor]

lmgfy: "joy2midi"

[Grizzellda]

Thank you for this. It is exactly the thing. I found a nice article in Sound on Sound from 2003, about this. So the concept has been around for awhile. 2003!!!

I was basically aware of this idea but I want to start learning more.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... controller

[Zeisner]

If you're on Windows there's plenty of controller-MIDI tools available for free. I think there's at least twenty different programs called midi2joy or joy2midi, if you google a little bit you'll see yourself. Just download a few and test them.

[Grizzellda]

Awesome, will be exploring. Thanks alot for this guys.

[Zeisner]

To add: I recommend using a game controller instead of a joystick. Way more comfortable than a joystick. I use this for playing virtual guitar. The X- and Y- axis of the analog stick controls pitch bend and modulation, the shoulder buttons switch playing styles.

[glokraw]

I have a common Logitech usb joypad with 9 buttons, a four directional thumb pad, and two X-Y controllers, mounted on the part of the keyboard stand that runs tangential to the keyboard. It sits for easy left hand access, and is great fun to use in Reaper with Hive/Zebra midi-learn. The poles have a short throw, but a nice resistance, and lots of drums and seqs can be triggered by the buttons. Etc

[Grizzellda]

Thank you guys, looks great.

[blairjack37]

this would be legendary!