With pd you can already do this with the joystick external. The only thing that needs to be added is the ability for multiple joysticks. I should do that one of these days, but I use only one myself, so it gets postponed all the time (which is a typical OS/unpaid development problem). OTOH you can have force feedback control with pd, and serial port objects and OSC etc etc. With alsa virmidi you can route the resulting midi to any other app. Gerard -- electronic & accoustic musics-- http://www.xs4all.nl/~gml