Exercise: Controller Mapping

Hold a controller in your hand

Tap buttons in rthythm

1, 2, 3, 4

1 .. 234

123 .. 4

Options:

• Same button or different buttons?
• Map
• Y North
• B East
• A South
• X West

Visualize

Direction chooses notes. Shown various ways to communicate the note.

Y, B, A, X

I, III, V, VII

A, C#, E, G#

🏠, 💪, 🏆, 😇

North, East, South, West

1… 234!

Do it again with the joystick.

Note the differences.

Tapping buttons feels much more percussive

Joystick feels very fluid

I used trigger plus joystick movement at the same time, imagined the feeling of warping a note, or “shooting a note like a bow and arrow”. Pull back for the 1, build up tension, release 234!