PCSX2
[Feature Request]: MIDI over USB support
Description
Support for controlling games with MIDI-over-USB instruments. The specific use case I have in mind is playing Rock Band using an electronic drum kit. Essentially, I'd like the ability to map MIDI note triggers to specific gamepad inputs.
Reason
Currently, to play Rock Band on PCSX2, I have to use vJoy to emulate a USB gamepad, and then run a separate piece of software called midi2vjoy which translates MIDI signals to button presses. This is a pain to set up and requires a decent bit of effort to get going.
My other real option would be to find a real Rock Band drum kit and hook that up to my computer, but those are getting very difficult to find — not to mention, store.
By providing built-in support for MIDI instruments, PCSX2 wouldn't just be saving me and other people wishing to play Rock Band on their kit a lot of headaches — you'd also be opening up new ways to play virtually every game on the platform. Surely there's plenty of people out there who are just dreaming of beating DMC3 with a drum machine.
Examples
To my knowledge, no emulator does this yet. Here's a YouTube video describing how to get started using USB instruments in flight sims on PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ShQVPK3LwM
I guess another correct title is use original devices on the PC that correspond to the same emulated device.
Want to add that using MIDI would be great instead of having to find some workaround for Keyboardmania.
Seriously I would really like to not have to figure out how to map my MIDI keyboard to something that PSCX2 will reconize just to avoid playing the Yamaha Edition of Keyboardmania.
