[LAU] I'm looking for something like a MIDI-signal router/converter

[Sebastian Tschöpel]

Hello List,

on windows I used to use my Logitech Dual Action Gamepad as MIDI 
controller. For example to trigger the effect/modulation ratio of one or 
two effect to have something like a Kaospad or as Transport Controller 
for Cubase with the axis for moving the pointer and controlling zoom and 
the buttons for play, stop, record and so forth. Today I tried the same 
thing on linux.

First of all, I have to say that it was pretty easy to set up the 
joystick as a midi-device, provided the gamepad itself runs under linux. 
In my case it was auto-detected during the openSuse 10.2 installation, 
so I hadn't to care about it. The tool I used is called aseqjoy by 
Alexander König, the developer of the TerminatorX sequencer. 
Compiling/Installation was quite easy and ALSA detected the 
Joystick/MIDI device immediatly. Unfortunately the MIDI-signals are 
hardcoded so it depends on the software to be triggered whether you can 
use the joystick on it or not. I don't know if there is something like a 
in-between midi-router that could route or respectively convert MIDI 
signals so I don't have to change the source code.

Does anyone knows such a tool?

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Best regards,
Sebastian.