Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

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OvertoneZero
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Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

Post by OvertoneZero » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:08 am

If anyone else is interested in this, I was able to get a halfway decent setup working tonight that basically gives you mouse and scroll wheel control with an xbox 360 controller in OS X.


You need a few things to do it:

http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/Projec ... Controller 360 Controller Driver


ControllerMate:

http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/


ControllerMate config file:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9264 ... 8114394287

Mouse is mapped to left stick, scroll is right stick, left click is A, right click is B, page down is left trigger, page up is right trigger



You can use a wired controller or one of these with a wireless: http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Wireless-Gam ... 768&sr=8-3




the mouse acceleration could use some work... my initial approach to smoothing out the pointer motion with Controllermate's custom mouse acceleration curve and the divider modules (..?) is not optimized.


Also going to map some keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Tarekith
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Re: Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

Post by Tarekith » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:35 am

Man i hate to be a weirdo and all, but.....




...why?




:?: :?: :?: :?:



Why would you want to use an Xbox controller to control Live? I'm not making fun, I'm not judging, I just don't understand.....

...why?

OvertoneZero
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Re: Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

Post by OvertoneZero » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:47 am

Haha! You're totally going to try it.

etceterax
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Re: Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

Post by etceterax » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:10 pm

Why not? You can never have too many buttons. 8)
Drop it like it's lukewarm.

snakedogman
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Re: Mousing around in OS X with Xbox 360 Controller

Post by snakedogman » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:25 pm

what would be really cool is if you would actually be running Live on your Xbox ;)

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