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Posted on: 04.03.2011 by Germaine Wardrip
how difficult would it to make a mapping for this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Arcade-Joyst...item3f079845b1

would I be able to just learn all the buttons? I was believeing about some how using the joy stick to control the cross fader and possibly the up fader controls in Traktor Pro. Any ideas? Suggestions
Maryanne Weatherill
08.03.2011
Originally Posted by mddombrowski
ooh, very cool. thanks for mentioning fergojoystick. i believe i might set-up a couple game controllers that i have laying around as MIDI controllers now.
Yup iv used it. You will also need a virtual midi wirer such as maple midi.

Still trying to finish my controller.
Bradford Grafer
08.03.2011
Originally Posted by M Elbert Grant
He would download a program such as fergojoystick, which can interpret the signals being sent into the program, give those specific signals midi parameters then proceed to send those midi signals into a patchcable driver which could then be picked up and interpreted by traktor.
ooh, very cool. thanks for mentioning fergojoystick. i believe i might set-up a couple game controllers that i have laying around as MIDI controllers now.
Yuonne Ingamells
07.03.2011
Originally Posted by mddombrowski
i am by no means an expert in this arena, but i believe it's more than likely impossible to use this as a MIDI controller, as is. in order to use this in that kind of capacity, it would need to have the ability to send and receive MIDI signals. MIDI being a protocol, i imagine that MIDI controllers are built with certain hardware (and thereby firmware) that enables them to send/receive these signals. i have no idea what kind of signals this video game joystick sends to a computer, but i highly doubt it's MIDI. BUT, as a possible solution, i wonder if you could open it up, gut the circuitry, and rebuild it with the circuit board from a DIY Midifighter kit?
He would download a program such as fergojoystick, which can interpret the signals being sent into the program, give those specific signals midi parameters then proceed to send those midi signals into a patchcable driver which could then be picked up and interpreted by traktor.
Yuonne Ingamells
04.03.2011
Originally Posted by tyfurious
Don't A jockstick is 4 directional, 8 if you include corners. The joystick is likely a standard 8 directional stick; meaning it's left 100%, left 0%, right 100%, right 0%, etc.

I.E. It won't work.
I don't know if this is necessarily true at all...most joysticks will be four directional but they won't be 100% especially if you program the axis values yourself through a midi joystick program.

but for 100 dollars don't do it...either make your own from an existing pcb or buy a midi fighter...especially don't do it for crossfaders....you could do it for effects or something.
Germaine Wardrip
04.03.2011
how difficult would it to make a mapping for this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Arcade-Joyst...item3f079845b1

would I be able to just learn all the buttons? I was believeing about some how using the joy stick to control the cross fader and possibly the up fader controls in Traktor Pro. Any ideas? Suggestions
Bradford Grafer
08.03.2011
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Maryanne Weatherill
08.03.2011
Originally Posted by mddombrowski
ooh, very cool. thanks for mentioning fergojoystick. i believe i might set-up a couple game controllers that i have laying around as MIDI controllers now.
Yup iv used it. You will also need a virtual midi wirer such as maple midi.

Still trying to finish my controller.
Bradford Grafer
08.03.2011
Originally Posted by M Elbert Grant
He would download a program such as fergojoystick, which can interpret the signals being sent into the program, give those specific signals midi parameters then proceed to send those midi signals into a patchcable driver which could then be picked up and interpreted by traktor.
ooh, very cool. thanks for mentioning fergojoystick. i believe i might set-up a couple game controllers that i have laying around as MIDI controllers now.
Franklin Momany
07.03.2011
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Yuonne Ingamells
07.03.2011
Originally Posted by mddombrowski
i am by no means an expert in this arena, but i believe it's more than likely impossible to use this as a MIDI controller, as is. in order to use this in that kind of capacity, it would need to have the ability to send and receive MIDI signals. MIDI being a protocol, i imagine that MIDI controllers are built with certain hardware (and thereby firmware) that enables them to send/receive these signals. i have no idea what kind of signals this video game joystick sends to a computer, but i highly doubt it's MIDI. BUT, as a possible solution, i wonder if you could open it up, gut the circuitry, and rebuild it with the circuit board from a DIY Midifighter kit?
He would download a program such as fergojoystick, which can interpret the signals being sent into the program, give those specific signals midi parameters then proceed to send those midi signals into a patchcable driver which could then be picked up and interpreted by traktor.
Bradford Grafer
07.03.2011
i am by no means an expert in this arena, but i believe it's more than likely impossible to use this as a MIDI controller, as is. in order to use this in that kind of capacity, it would need to have the ability to send and receive MIDI signals. MIDI being a protocol, i imagine that MIDI controllers are built with certain hardware (and thereby firmware) that enables them to send/receive these signals. i have no idea what kind of signals this video game joystick sends to a computer, but i highly doubt it's MIDI. BUT, as a possible solution, i wonder if you could open it up, gut the circuitry, and rebuild it with the circuit board from a DIY Midifighter kit?
Yuonne Ingamells
04.03.2011
Originally Posted by tyfurious
Don't A jockstick is 4 directional, 8 if you include corners. The joystick is likely a standard 8 directional stick; meaning it's left 100%, left 0%, right 100%, right 0%, etc.

I.E. It won't work.
I don't know if this is necessarily true at all...most joysticks will be four directional but they won't be 100% especially if you program the axis values yourself through a midi joystick program.

but for 100 dollars don't do it...either make your own from an existing pcb or buy a midi fighter...especially don't do it for crossfaders....you could do it for effects or something.
Gilma Marchini
04.03.2011
Don't A jockstick is 4 directional, 8 if you include corners. The joystick is likely a standard 8 directional stick; meaning it's left 100%, left 0%, right 100%, right 0%, etc.

I.E. It won't work.

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