Wii & Synth's or anything else?

FRETPICK · #1 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008 , 07:52 PM

So how many of you out there are using the Wii to control some of your gear?

Here is one of the programs.
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mrfracas · #2 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008 , 09:42 PM

That's flippin hilarious!!

If you look on the synth's panel, you can see the light moving around the rotary.

I wouldn't mind using a program like OSCulator for live joystick twiddling, but I'm sure it's been done to death by now!

EdRyan · #3 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008 , 11:45 PM

The Wiimote is getting used for everything these days. Synth control, ableton controller etc..

As analogue and organic an interface it is compared to 'traditional' methods, I just don't get why you would want to use it for such things. It's not very accurate and doesn't have that many controls..

But it's early days. We are living in exciting times, with some big changes ahead. Like the transition to flash memory for just about everything, touch screen everything, and intel have just pulled another gem out the bag...they can send electricity via magnetic fields. Put simply, we could soon be looking at a completely wireless, touch and motion sensitive world..wow

JAYDMF · #4 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008 , 11:59 PM

One of the guys on my course did his major project on using a Wii remote to control synths in reaktor was pretty damn cool way of doing things

krykos · #5 (**permalink**) 29th August 2008 , 04:38 PM

As much as I would love to, I don't have a bluetooth dongle, so I can't connect it to the PC. Most of the ones I've found only seem to work on the Mac as well.

But yeh, as Ed said, we're coming into a new age of non-traditional methods to produce music. Touchscreen will become big in the next couple of years as a method of inputting into the computer, and if multitouch works as well as hoped, it could be possible that (if it becomes pressure-sensitive) people would use an onscreen MIDI keyboard as opposed to hardware.

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#3 (permalink) 28th August 2008 , 11:45 PM
EdRyan Professor Sunshine Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 571	The Wiimote is getting used for everything these days. Synth control, ableton controller etc.. As analogue and organic an interface it is compared to 'traditional' methods, I just don't get why you would want to use it for such things. It's not very accurate and doesn't have that many controls.. But it's early days. We are living in exciting times, with some big changes ahead. Like the transition to flash memory for just about everything, touch screen everything, and intel have just pulled another gem out the bag...they can send electricity via magnetic fields. Put simply, we could soon be looking at a completely wireless, touch and motion sensitive world..wow
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