wii remote

[soundtechdan]

hi

I have heard that the wii remote attach to the computer? and can be used to play drums and instruments. Does this mean that you don't need the entire wii console to play the drums with you computer? and could the wii remote be used to control other things like vst or controllers.

cheers

[Dogboy73]

I heard something about this recently but I don't recall where. I did recently see a video on YouTube where some guy had set-up a Wii Remote to control the Half Life 2 PC game. Except this dood was running it on a Mac Book (for that added 'look what I can do' geekiness ). In any case that set-up was using only the Wii Remote via bluetooth & something called 'Glove pie'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asY_I8y6C0M

[El_Brujo]

Yes you can...i use it sometime as midi control
but now i've got some problem with it maybe live 7 or the new computer...
anyway you just need the wiimote..here's a good link:
http://crustea.vjfrance.com/article-130714.html

[soundtechdan]

thank you both very much you have been helpful

[jac79dj]

there are youtube vids of somebody using a wii remote as a controller in ableton

[Barbarte]

now if only someone would merge the half life technology with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

[soundtechdan]

The other thing I am wondering is whether you can use the Mac remote as a MIDI controller. I have seen a program that has this built in ability so it must be possible.

[Bokonon]

There is a host of options on OS X.
Kineme have a wiimote patch for quartz composer : http://kineme.net/
There is wii2midi for OS X : http://mike.verdone.ca/wiitomidi/
Darwin remote: http://blog.hiroaki.jp/2006/12/000433.html
there is aka.wiiremote objects for max/msp - there is also an aka.appleremote object as well - http://www.iamas.ac.jp/%7Eaka/max/

glovepie is the best way of doing it (outside of maxmsp) on windows.