csound-jstick

Introduction

csound-jstick was created in response to the builtin joystick opcode being a bit inefficient and not ideal to use. This attempts to make it a bit easier by presenting the output in two arrays (buttons and axes). A maximum of 4 axes and 12 buttons is supported. The opcode uses evdev so only works on Linux.

Requirements

Csound development libraries
Cmake 2.8.12 or later

Building

Create a build directory at the top of the source tree, execute cmake .., make and optionally make install as root. If the latter is not used/possible then the resulting module can be used with the --opcode-lib flag in Csound. eg:

cd csound-jstick
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make && sudo make install

Opcode overview

jstick

kaxes[] kbuttons[] jstick inum

Obtain joystick data at k-rate.

kaxes[] : array containing axis data normalised to between 0 and 1, size is 4
kbuttons[] : array containing button data normalised to between 0 and 1, size is 12
inum : the joystick number corresponding to /dev/input