I got dj hero yesterday and though I’m finding the game quite hard on medium it’s still an enjoyable game. More importantly though I’ve managed to hook my ps3 dj hero controller upto my mac and using gamepad companion I’ve been ae to get the turntable controller to work (but it only reacts to the heaviest of pushes) the turntable uses the z axis to work and so has to be programmes to use multiple presses if you want it to do anything in GarageBand. Hopefully there will be an app that uses the controller at some point ( especially if I look at makin one :p). An interested side note is that it registers itself as a guitar hero 5 controller. This could mean that existing guitar hero 5 controller midi drivers may work with the turntable.
Posts Tagged ‘midi’
Dj hero and gamepad companion
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Quartz Composer and Midi – Part 0
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Ok the reason it’s called part 0 is because this post is more of a ‘ I intend to research this subject to find out if I can use it as part of my exhibition piece’.
I use Cbasicore64 to make chiptune music from time to time and it has a set selection of memory banks for each instrument (there are only 4 instruments) and I was thinking that I could exploit the way the programs laid out and use a midi patch in Quartz Composer to send out a signal to Cbasicore64 to change the memory bank it’s currently playing. This would result in the music changing rapidly when the user moves the objects around the scene.
There are downsides to this idea. One is that I’ve asked my friend Oli to create an awesome soundscape for me, and to suddenly change to a 8-bit style would be a bit of an insult, plus 8-bit isn’t fitting with how I wanted the piece to go. Secondly it would mean loads of coding ( I imagine, knowing my luck) to get it work, and I only have a month to pull this thing out of my arse.
I could try to use Garageband as the music playback device and have Oli export the song in 4 channels, that way I can use his score. I just need to hit the web and look at midi in Quartz Composer