DDR Mat as a midi controller

[Eon_Blue]

Anyone have any experience with this? Hooking up a dance mat to be recognized as a midi controller for playing samples, etc.

I understand there are some ways to have game controllers used the same way, a dance mat would be pretty cool as a drum machine or something.

Er.. a friend of mine is asking, I don't use those gay dance mats.

[Malcos]

That could be a good concept for a kind of foot jamming session. Dance, and create the music at the same time.

[sgx]

ur gay

I've used a program on the mac called Junxion to convert usb signals from a gamepad to midi, but I don't know of anything like that for PC.

[Goten X]

Wow, that is a radical idea... I mean, its not really "dancing" per se, but that would be great for DDR songs to play with. Sounds cool.

|GX

[Nineko]

it shouldn't be that hard, neither in the hardware nor in the software.

[SnappleMan]

That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And you people are just encouraging him!

[The Vagrance]

That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And you people are just encouraging him!

Agreed, no need for it and it'd be a stupid visual because people wouldn't think "oh, cool, that guys activatiing samples with his DDR pad!" but instead would think "WTF is that wanker doing on a DDR pad". MIDI controllers were invented for a reason, to kick ass!

[Navi]

It's nowhere near as stupid as the keytar.

[SnappleMan]

myf, how could you?

[OverCoat]

Dude, no love for the keytar

[Splunkle]

I think its a freaking awesome idea, if only for sheer stupid factor. Much like the keytar.

[CC Ricers]

Dude, no love for the keytar

Still not as wikked as the key-SWORD-tar!

[Xelebes]

That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And you people are just encouraging him!

It's an extention of the idea of a pedal-keyboard MIDI controller, so it is not all that idiotic. It could lead to a new way of controlling more pedalle signals than what is offered by one or two foot-pedals.

[Xerol Oplan]

I could probably code up a program that would take game controller input (basically anything that's set up as a "joystick" in windows) and make it output midi, but I'm not sure if I can output it to the SYSTEM itself. If you had a way to loopback your midi out, it would work. I'll look into it. (Like I really need more projects right now.)

[suzumebachi]

http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/joy2midi/

it's fine, learn2google.