My Twister Is Now Wireless

[Mike Caffrey]

I've been using my Twister to control ProTools. I spent a long time trying to get it to work in the ProTools MIDI set up and never succeeded. Eventually I discovered an app called Controllermate and that allowed me to set it up however I wanted. (It also allowed me to use an Xbox controller too.)

I have all of my devices mounted on a piece of pegboard for both ergonomic and acoustic reasons. Cable management can be annoying so I recently tried to find a way to make everything wireless and the Twister was the last piece of the puzzle.

Yamaha makes a device that converts USB MIDI to bluetooth, so I just plug it into that. Both the Yamaha device and the Twister are powered with a cellphone charging block. 10,000 mah seems to be enough for a week of power, though it's really easy to plug in a charging cable overnight so that it's always at capacity.

I have no idea if that's a benefit to anyone, but it's definitely possible to set them up for wireless use.

[chmedly]

Sounds good.
pics?