HID-to-MIDI conversion

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HID-to-MIDI conversion

So I was reading this:

…and decided it’d be a swanky thing to break down the USB game pad I’ve used once since buying it 8 years ago, whip out a soldering gun, and turn it into a control for running loops out of decks C and D in Traktor Pro.

The only issue I’m running into during the pre-planning phase is finding a solid HID-to-MIDI application. Everything looks like it was written for Win95, whereas I’m running 64-bit Win7.

Does anyone know of a for-sure working program that’ll take care of my problem?

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Use our favourite Bome’s Midi Translator

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Cripes. Kinda defeats the purpose of a DIY kitbashing session, doesn’t it?

Thanks for the suggestion, though. :slight_smile: I’m currently giving this a whirl:

http://www.fergonez.net/index.php?lang=en&page=apps&pid=14

Wish me luck!

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Yeah it seems pricey at first but you can do a lot with it.

Tell us if Fergo’s JoystickMIDI does the trick.

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It seems to recognize everything on my gamepad, which is a great start.

There’s a button on the pad that disables the analog sticks and switches the d-pad to an X/Y-axis control; Windows seems to recognize the d-pad even when the analogs are engaged but this program is either/or. (I wonder if I can use this creatively…)

Now I just need a way to pipe midi messages. Midi Yoke is playing hard to sausage, but that’s likely due to the extreme differences in OS architectures.

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Awesome! Just installed LoopBe1 and things seem to be working. I’m going to break out a notepad, take down some mapping notes and see if I can use a joystick as a fader. If this works, I’ll have found a cheap HID control board to make a pretty solid control out of. Should be something like… 10 buttons and 4 sliders, not too shabby.

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Awww did this work 0_0 im looking out for interesting joystick uses on a diy midi controller =p=p=p

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do a search in the controllers subforum… there’s absolutely loads of thread like this there.

I’m personally a fan of an xbox1 joypad :slight_smile: