I am completely new to Pd and want to test it out with my MS Sidewinder joystick. I downloaded the HID stuff and now have the Joystick.pd file. Where do I go from here? I just want maybe a tone and be able to bend it with the joystick. I just need to know how to use joystick.pd with sound, and I'll figure out how to do more complicated stuff later. I tried attaching the joystick.pd file, incase you haven't seen it before.

Thanks for the help

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/joystick.pd

Each output from Hans joystick patch is normalised to 1.

First connect up a number box to see that it's working and that you get values out
when you move the stick. They should be between 0 and 1

Multiply the outputs by 1000

Then create an oscillator for each axis.and connect it to the X and Y output.

You should have two tones that vary up to about 1kHz when you move the stick around.

I'm sorry for the completely noobish questions, but where would I connect the number boxes too? Would I connect them to the autoscale 0 1 boxes? When I do that, I get a lot of errors after pressing start:

/usr/local/src/hid-0.6/hid.pd_linux: /usr/local/src/hid-0.6/hid.pd_linux: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
hid $1
... couldn't create
autoscale 0 1
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'start'

Is it possible that it does not have the right joystick. It is at /dev/input/js0, so how would I tell the patch that?

Thanks for all the help

Okay, I got it to work with the J. Sarlos joystick patch thing. Thanks anyway.