antonaudio

Using MaxMSP to receive all the control data from a PS3 controller and converting it to MIDI messages to be used with any program that accepts MIDI. I was also happy to discover that the sixaxis values and button pressure get passed to Max as well. Plus its wireless so I can just completely lean back in my chair and have fun controlling things. I’ve made each message range scalable as well, for fine tuning control possibilities. 

I added 9 nodes for each joystick which gave me 11 control parameters (including XY) for each joystick! It was a little unpredictable to know what kinds of results that would achieve but that was part of the fun:) There is also momentary and toggle Note Ons, button pressure CCs, SIXAXIS motion CCs, random scale Note assignments, 3 parallel sequencers and sample and hold CC values!

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Bluetooth SIXAXIS PS3 MIDI Controller App

Christopher Jakobi

Live-electronic transformation of audio material in an improvised context requires very fast access to the given effects. Therefore hardware controllers are mandatory when using Max/MSP. In many cases numerous knobs, buttons, and sliders are provided, but the performance still lacks flexibility, when a quick reaction is needed. I found that the shape of a gamepad in combination with the reduction of possibilities (4 buttons, 2 triggers, x-,y-axis) fits this task much better. At the moment I try to explore ways of building patches in Max/MSP that create a versatile instrument in combination with the gamepad. Always relying on the idea of only transforming external audio material, this is meant to be used in improvised and compositional contexts.

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Gamepad-controlled live-electronics

Rodrigo

Cut Glove is a live sampling and performance instrument built using Max. It was programmed around the Xbox 360 controller. Additionally, the patch has MIDI learn functionality built in, so every parameter can be mapped to any MIDI controller.

Click here to read a blog post going into detail about the background, development, and technical implementation of Cut Glove.

Cut Glove shares much of the core feature set of The Party Van but massively updated/improved and based around a completely different control and performance paradigm (a game controller). The Xbox 360 controller is extremely common and cheap and can be used with a computer using this driver (both wired and wireless). A big part of the interest for me writing a patch around a gamepad is my background in playing video games. Most video games have quite deep, complex, and rich mapping schemes that become internalized quickly. That approach is taken in the mapping scheme here. Subsequent updates will expand on these complex mapping metaphors, but the initial feature set and mappings are quite deep as they stand.

Here are a few videos showing what Cut Glove can do:

Cut Glove is based on a custom external, karma~, which handles all the complex recording/playback in the patch.

You can download the patch (for 32bit Mac/Win) along with all the required externals here (v01).

You can follow the github repo here : https://github.com/rconstanzo/cut-glove


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