Hacking MIDIPad DS

[Ben_j]

I did a Kaoss pad for the DS, using PALib and DSMidiWifi libs. The DSMidiWifi team already did a Kaoss Pad demo for their lib but I wasn't happy with it, so I did one myself.
Here are the features so far :
When you touch the screen, it sends 3 CC : one for the X axis, one for the Y axis and a third CC corresponding to the status of the screen : 128 when it is pressed, 0 when it's released.
A and B can send CCs too, just like the sreen press : 128 when it's pressed, 0 when it's released

That way you can do a nice effect with a Beat Repeat and an AutoFilter in Ableton Live, like on a real Kaoss Pad

 

[lagman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/wWqZgHtlyuY[/youtube]

Looks pretty good BTW.

 

[Ben_j]

I'm still working on it, I added Sliders, and on the fly channel change. That way, I have 16 kaoss pads and 16*5 sliders, which is pretty good.

To be added :
- Pads (MPC style)
- Keyboard
- 8bit Synthesizer
- Kaoss Pad-like supa-cool color effects

 

[Masterchafed]

I cannot figure out how to use this with ableton. any help would be greatly appriciated.

 

[Ben_j]

What OS do you use ? I'll do a tutorial whith the release of the final 0.1 version.

 

[Haruspex]

That was really cool man. Yes a tutorial would be nice.

Ah you remind me when i was spending all of my free time to these kind of stuff. Reason, cubase, cool vst plug-ins...

Unfortunately i don't remember now when was the last time i launch these programs...

 

[nephdj]

awsome

 

[Masterchafed]

I'm using Windows XP on this comp, and vista on the other.

 

[Masterchafed]

Sorry for the double post but i figured this was worth everyones notice. I finally figured out how to use this with ableton. If you guys wnat i will try to pull some time together tomorrow or the day after to make either a video or a text tutorial. it really is quite simple.

 

[cubin']

yeah that would be awesome can't wait to try this out.

 

[dblank]

Sweet, it's nice to see more MIDI apps showing up, thanks!

I'll give you 5 extra cool points if you add another CC using pressure sensitivity (like Colors)