{"id":2058,"date":"2021-01-10T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2021-01-10T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:03:01","slug":"music-with-wiimote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Music with Wiimote?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wii Remote, or Wiimote, is the controller of Nintendo’s Wii console, which has occupied an important place in the gaming industry since 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a wireless controller with motion sensing and traditional controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wii Remote only uses an accelerometer to detect movement. Other functions, such as using it as a pointer, rely on an infrared sensor that tracks the position of a \u201csensor bar\u201d above or below the television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The accelerometer is an Analog Devices ADXL 330 and has three times the sensitivity of gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It not only detects motion, but also reports the angle at which the Wiimote is held when it is not in motion – and not just one angle, but three: vertical, horizontal and rotational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are obviously many accessories, among them, we can find Wii MotionPlus, an accessory that uses a more precise and sensitive gyroscope, a device that measures orientation and angular velocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But now\u2026 can we use to as a controller for our virtual instrument?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is normally paired via Bluetooth, so this allows us to easily connect it to our computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, we have to convert the Wiimote data streams into a module that our software can control, and we have several options for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Windows platform we can find GlovePIE, a free scripting language from Australian programmer Carl Kenner. It is fascinating for musicians because it includes a set of MIDI commands that work via the Windows MIDI Mapper and also commands for Open Sound Control (OSC), the communication protocol for sound and media processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or we can access the data with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming language. We just need to download the external like WiiSense and wiimote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some cool examples:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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