Wireless Rock Band Guitar as MIDI Controller

A fun little project; using the Xbox wireless Rock Band guitar as a MIDI controller. Seen here controlling the Novation A-Station.

The guitar triggers 5 note on/off messages, of which the octave can be raised or lowered using the strum button. The tremolo arm sends a CC message, in this case to the filter cutoff frequency, while the tilt feature creates a pitchbend.

Wacom Tablet Controlling Amen Break

Here is a Wacom Tablet, controlling the loop point and pitch of the (im)famous amen break. When the pen is lifted, the software retains the last sent co-ordinates.

A future improvement to this would be to assign it to a global sync, so it can be used in time with DAWS. As it is, it`s a fun little sketchpad. 

XBox MIDI controller for YMVST by Gwem

Using a USB Xbox controller, I am controlling various features of the excellent YMVST by Gwem.Using MaxMSP v5 I converted the incoming messages from the pad to MIDI CCs which are then transmitted to the VST.

YMVST is one of the best Chiptune VSTs and is available from here:
http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/

Playstation Controller and Software Multi-FX

This was my final year university project, and my introduction to MaxMSP. I spent 6 months learning to use Max, designing, building and testing it. Aside from a dogy UI the core engine worked very well.

 I used MaxMSP as a host for a number of freely available VST effects, and routed the signals from the controller to them..I hope you will agree that the later versions had an improved user-interface.