GlovePIE installed using default settings. This gives you a virtual joystick port that your game or program should be able to see. This will cost you $15, though, if you roll with Mac, this is probably insignificant. In my case I had the software that came with the device, the Kontrol Editor, which lets you view and change the cc# of everything on the device.ĬontrollerMate for Mac OSX will perform the same functions as GlovePIE for PC. The device's MIDI implementation datasheet or program that can read what MIDI data each fader/button sends. PPJoy to create the virtual joystick port that the game (or other program) can then see and utilise. GlovePIE to capture the control surface movements and button presses of the device (Nano Kontrol in this case). To convert a MIDI device into a joystick/gamepad you will need two, maybe three programs. When I had the idea to use a midi device as an in-game controller I looked everywhere for the advice I needed to make the link-up without success.Ĭut a long story short here's the solution i came up with after some cogitation and moderate expleting. However, the reverse process seems to have been somewhat overlooked.
There's no shortage on the web these days of scripts to convert joystick or gamepad movements/button presses into MIDI data in order to control sequencers and effects units etc. To put it simply most programs and games won't register a button press or fader/pot slide from this device without some software based jiggery-pokery. The problem is this is a MIDI device plugged into the computer via USB2 and as such produces MIDI control changes (cc#) which most programs bar audio software ignore. This device has 9 channels each with fader, pot and 2 buttons each.
Will update again when have more details. *edit* User "tête en l'air" has informed me that Mac OSX users can purchase ControllerMate for $15 and achieve the same results. Ultimately, I used GlovePIE and PPJoy for PC to provide the virtual 'stick port that the simulator can "see".
I attempt to link this device to a flight simulator as a virtual joystick utilising whatever software made it most simple. Having run out of buttons and analogue outputs on my gamepad controller I looked around for a suitable device i already owned and saw my Korg Nano Kontrol bursting with buttons and sliders galore. How to use MIDI control surfaces to control axes and buttons in games
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