DrummerStever

I am attempting to use a joystick to control sound using VBAP. However, my joystick maps from 0-255, and I was wondering if there is a way to make this easily correlate to degrees on the azimuth/elevation.

I would like the controller to read out "0" when forward, "90" when panned right, and so on.

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For azimuth/*distance* (2d panning) you need to (probably) scale and offset the x and y values and convert to polar coordinates and change the radians to degrees - see cartopol

If you *are* actually attempting to control azimuth/*elevation* (suggesting 3d panning) I'm not sure how the elevation would intutitviely map to a joystick alone (joystick in centre is up, at perimeter is down?) But that will be a bit more involved to obtain. as you would need to convert the resultant 2d distance value of the distance/angle pair to specify elevation

For azimuth/*distance* (2d panning) you need to (probably) scale and offset the x and y values and convert to polar coordinates and change the radians to degrees -  see cartopol

If you *are* actually attempting to control azimuth/*elevation*  (suggesting 3d panning) I'm not sure how the elevation would intutitviely map to a joystick alone (joystick in centre is up, at perimeter is down?) But that will be a bit more involved to obtain. as you would need to convert the resultant 2d distance value of the distance/angle pair to specify elevation


Thanks to both of you, and sorry for my late reply. I was on a trip and forgot the laptop with Max on it.

The scale function did help with the values, and now I am looking into the cartopol function, and messing with the parameters. Thanks so much for your insight!

Changing/Altering values sent from a joystick