antron420smokeallday wrote:So, here's the sitch...
I purchased a usb-boy from kitsch-bent.com a little while back, and I don't want my $80 purchase to be entirely in vain. From what I understand, the device is an arduino-boy type mod that allows your Gameboy to send and read MIDI signals. So far, I've had some results in Ableton live using Master mode to record my GB audio, but I haven't been able to do so much as map the play button in Ableton to the start button on my GB. Ableton set aside, my ultimate goal is to be able to run my Gameboy through my audio interface (built into my dj controller) in Traktor pro, and map some of the settings such as tempo, volume, and filters...
Does anyone else own one of these things? Do you know which setting would be the best for use in a live mix?
Any insight I can get would be helpful since I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this, Thanks!
You can't directly map the start button on the Game Boy. When using the Game Boy in MIDI Slave mode you first press start and the Game Boy will then be enabled to listen for MIDI Start/Stop and tempo signals. It will then continue to listen for incoming MIDI unless you press start again.
As for controlling filters I'm unsure of what you mean as the Game Boy doesn't have any filters, unless you've added some.
EDIT: Unless you're talking about using your Game Boy in MIDI Master mode to control the filters on your Audio interface/Controller? In that case you need to make sure you've got the correct version of LSDJ, as the MIDI Out feature isn't present in all versions and you have to ensure you have the mode set to MIDIOUT. There are then use the commands X and Y to send MIDI CCs and program changes, respectively.
Last edited by jefftheworld (Apr 3, 2015 9:36 pm)