I finally got my joystick to work within Pd. I now want to use it with terminatorX through MIDI. My question is, how do you turn all the numbers from the output of the joystick movement into MIDI signals in Pd? I've heard of using ctlout or noteout, but how exactly do I connect that with rest of my joystick.pd patch? I've attached the joystick patch that I'm using (the J. Sarlos one). I don't know if this is a problem, but the MIDI settings are set to the OSS device, but I want to use JACK. OSS device and none are the only options.

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

You must have a jack daemon running, start it on the command line (first man jackd) or using the gui config tool qjackctl. Do that *before* you launch Pd.

I did that and the only MIDI I/O available is still OSS.

hmmm,

start Pd with the -jack option?