1 .TH aseqjoy "1" "March 2003" "aseqjoy @VERSION@" "User Commands"
3 aseqjoy \- Joystick to ALSA MIDI Sequencer Converter
8 Aseqjoy maps each axis of a joystick device to a specific MIDI
9 controller. Moving the joystick along an axis will cause aseqjoy to emit
10 MIDI controller messages via ALSA's sequencer API. The value of the controller
11 message represents the joystick's position along the axis (eg \'left\' \-> 0,
12 \'middle\' \-> 63, \'right\' \-> 127).
14 Aseqjoy uses the ALSA sequencer API to emit the MIDI events. Therefor it
15 creates and output port named after joystick used. You can then use for example
16 \fBaconnect\fR or the \fBalsa-patch-bay\fR to connect an aseqjoy instance to an
17 input port of your choice.
19 \fBNote:\fR Some joysticks may have to be calibrated (with \fBjscal\fR) before
20 they can be used efficently.
27 Select the joystick to use for aseqjoy, where \fB[joystick]\fR is an integer value
28 from from 0 to 3 effectivley selecting devices js0 to js3.
31 Verbose mode - aseqjoy will output information about the MIDI events
34 \fB\-0 [controller]\fR
35 Select the MIDI controller ID for axis 0. As a default value aseqjoy will use
36 10 + the axis ID, so for axis 0 that would be 10 + 0 = 10.
38 \fB\-1 [controller]\fR, \fB\-2 [controller]\fR, \fB\-3 [controller]\fR,
39 Just like \fB\-0\fR this will set the controller IDs for axes 1, 2, 3.
41 After aseqjoy has started successfully all motion detected by the selected
42 joystick device will cause MIDI controller messages to be emitted via the
43 corresponding ALSA sequencer output port. The controller IDs are either the
44 default values (10, 11, 12 ...) or the ones given as commandline options.
46 Pressing a joystick button will cause aseqjoy to switch the MIDI channel. On
47 startup channel '1' is selected. Pressing joystick button 2 will cause channel
48 2 to be selected. Other buttons work accordingly.
50 Man page and software by Alexander König <alex@lisas.de>.