Readout of the Wave NX tracker

janpanis's icon

Did anyone ever make an object to read-out the 3 parameters that the BT Waves NX headtracker generates directly? I can use a Waves NX plugin of course, but I actually need something like the Nintendo Wii BT controller that is around for many years.

Roman Thilenius's icon


which 3 do you mean, the positions of 2 speakers and then having a distance between them?

janpanis's icon

In Waves terms they are called Yaw, Pitch and Roll (of the head).

janpanis's icon

looks like this:

Roman Thilenius's icon


ah, the headtracker only. but which data you want to produce?

the VST/AU will only send float 0. - 1. for everything, that is easy to reproduce.

janpanis's icon

As far as I can see, the tracker doesn't give any output from the plugin, see movie. Or do I make a fundamental mistake?

NX max.mov
video/quicktime 1.46 MB
small example

Noah Neumark's icon

Any luck with this? does serial object work for this to get data directly from the Bluetooth device?

Pedro Santos's icon

If on Mac, there's this application that converts the data to Open Sound Control, allowing then for the sensor's data to be used by Max.
https://audiooo.com/nxosc

Noah Neumark's icon

Oh yeah I just found that yesterday. It looks like it was just updated too. I tested it and seems to work great.

janpanis's icon

Great, that was just what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing this info and hurray for Katsuhiro Chiba!