Process Sheet:  All the Things I Tried

 

In the process of attempting to make a successful wii-remote (wiimote) controlled computer drum set synthesizer I tried many downloads and angles, here they are, feel free to give them a try.  I put in bold which ones worked for me.

 

 

DOWNLOADABLE WIIMOTE DRUM SETS

Successful

Using the Wiimote as a Drum Kit or Piano

Download and blurb: www.kreativraushen.com/blog/2007/11/04/wiiwiiwiiwii-using-the-wiimote-as-a-drum-kit-or-piano/

Unsuccessful

Wii Play The Drums

download: http://dl.qj.net/Wii-Play-the-Drums-Wii-Homebrew/pg/12/fid/13759/catid/526

instructions/blurb: http://www.qj.net/Wii-Play-the-Drums-in-action/pg/49/aid/92990

                        My Wiimote Drum Kit

for pc:  www.thisisnotalabel.com/my-wiimote-drum-kit.php

 

 

PROGRAMS THAT ACCEPT WII INPUT

            Successful

darwiinRemote

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote/    

darwiinRemoteOSC (osc connection works for mac osx) http://code.google.com/p/darwiinosc/downloads/list

witomidi

http://mike.verdone.ca/wiitomidi/ http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=180802

OSCulator

 http://www.osculator.net/wiki/Main/Download 

Processing

 http://processing.org/  

                        Wiinstrument

Download and instructions: http://screenfashion.org/releases/the_wiinstrument/

            Unsuccessful

Glovepie, (highly recommended but nearly impossible to download because the creator’s page is constantly bogged down)

http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download

 

 

 

MUSIC SOFTWARES:

Garage band

http://mac.sofotex.com/download-121712.html

 

Ableton live (supposed to be great, but I just did it with garage band)

free trial here:

 http://www.ableton.com/

 

           

 

INSTRUCTIONS, TUTORIALS, AND VIDEOS WHICH WERE HELPFUL

How to use the wiimote with Ableton Live:

http://www.vimeo.com/442266

Intro to Wiinstrument

http://macapper.com/2008/01/23/wiinstrument-play-the-drums-using-a-wii-remote/

Using the wiinstrument with a pc  http://screenfashion.org/2007/11/first_wiinstrument_release_for_windows.html

This is the tutorial I was successful with (with some alterations)

http://screenfashion.org/2007/09/wii_remote_garageband.html

 

 

OTHER MIDI DOWNLOADS

Midi creator software

Midikeys (unsuccessful, seems not to work) http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys.html

Wav to mid converter

http://the-music-teacher-s-secretary.qarchive.org/  - expensive