I've used Hubi's Joystick to MIDI Converter (MDJSTK11.ZIP) also available
where Hubi's loopback driver is found (his site). It too requires some kind
of loopback (I use MIDIYoke). Works fine as a controller (CC).

(It also programs the two joystick buttons - which I've used as note on and
off.)

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Beck" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Reading USB game controllers from CSound


> There is a joystick to midi converter called midijoy by vellocet:
> http://www.vellocet.com/
>
> I've used it and it's great. But you need to use a loopback system,
> which I know are out there but I haven't used; I just pluged a midi out
> cable right back into my midiman 2x2 and was good to go.
>
> -Bill
>
> Charles Barry Groves wrote:
>
> > Thanks to everyone who replied.  I think if I study PureData for the
> > next six months I'll understand David's answer...:)  By the way, I'm
> > confined to PC operating systems (XP Pro, 98, 95, 3.11(!)).  So the
> > STEIM software, being Mac, can't help me right now.
> >
> > I received the Pedal Controller, which is programmed by System
> > Exclusive messages.  I had assumed I'd be able to send SysEx right out
> > of CSound via MIDIOUT - now I don't think so, but it's hard to imagine
> > such a common requirement is missing.
> >
> > What have I overlooked?
> >
> >
> > David Akbari wrote:
> >
> >> Yikes! Sounds expensive.
> >> IMHO, at most you shouldn't spend more than $10 on something like a
> >> USB hub ...
> >> My advice is to use Hans Christoph-Steiner's [hid] object for Pure
> >> Data and either
> >>
>
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