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all DJ's out there listen up...

Are you tired of leaning over your iBook or MacBook mousing around, clicking through tracks, dragging and dropping, for hours at a time? Does your wrist begin to hurt? Do you look like a dork doing all that? This is all about to change for me...

Get any USB GamePad with plenty of buttons. Mine has a Dpad and 8 buttons (ps2 clone). Download USB OverDrive for OSX.

Install it, and setup your D-Pad to control the mouse movements (set sensitivty to 30%), "1" button to represent "click", and the "2" button to control right click. Add more buttons for Delete, Undo, Copy, and Paste, a few track mutes, etc..

Now this friday I have a gig: I am going to setup my iBook, sit back in a chair, and bang away at my gamepad and get paid $25 an hour to do so. It is VERY accurate and reliable. So far no problems... Timing is very tight.

COPP!!!

BTW- I love this website and everyone who posts here...

i look like such a dork by the way doing this. i think im going to stop.

Now I just need a PS2 emulator that runs on OSX, but doesnt suck too much juice, so that you can keep DJing while you burn up Nurgurgring in GT4

hellz yeah!!! I got a genesis emulator (sonic 3!!) I was playing while someone was speaking during an event i was djing.

cool idea (yes i'm a nerd like that...)

i might program my own version of that with max/msp on a lazy sunday

Yesterday I got myself a 8.95 EUR gamepad and did the same. It's lots of fun, tonight i will try out some more advanced stuff.

best of all, with USB overdrive X, you can make your controller settings global or per program.

I am going to record with GarageBand using the controller so I never have to leave the booth when im recording alone for example..

Also, I want a footpedal..

I think this leads to some new possibities. Like altering envelopes with the analog sticks.

Yeah - altering an envelope using the D-pad would be sweet, too...