Wednesday 28 April 2010

Dreamcast arcade stick as MIDI controller



What? One Sega game controller, one USB adapter, one Max/MSP app called "MultiControl" (runs via runtime if you don't have Max), and some MIDI into whatever application you want. An easy formula to follow if you happen to have any similar controllers around (or if you get lucky at a garage sale). I would imagine other sticks for consoles (e.g. Xbox 360) would work as well.

Check out the video......



And if that wasn't cool enough already, check out this second example, with Monome:



Feel free to leave comments with your thoughts!

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