Alternatives

Products that do what Gamepad MIDI Controller does

Turn Your Game Controller into MIDI

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   Controlly▲96

   Control your Mac using a console controller

   2021

2. 2
   TapPad▲87

   Turn your Mac's trackpad into a MIDI drum pad

   2019

3. 3M2
   MidiPad 2 – A customizable Midi Pad Controller▲47

   2017 · midipadapp.com

4. 4AH
   AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller▲92

   2025 · nanassound.com

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   VibePad▲128

   Control AI coding assistants with a gamepad from your couch

   Feb 2026 · vibepad.now

6. 6
   JoySynth▲2

   Turn your game controller into a musical instrument

   Aug 2026 · erpolley.itch.io

7. 7
   Rhythmo▲112

   A DIY cardboard MIDI controller kit

   2019

8. 8
   Launchpad: Make & Remix Music▲72

   DJ mixing app & beat maker

   2020

9. 9
   ChordViz▲75

   Build your own music visualizer for MIDI & audio

   24d ago · chordviz.ca

10. 10
    Wario Synth▲78

    Transform songs into retro Gameboy-style game console music

    Jun 2026 · wario.style

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    Wah-Wah MIDI remote controller▲70

    Control your MIDI devices using your lips.

    2019

12. 12OP
    OpenDeck – Platform for building MIDI controllers▲47

    2021 · github.com

13. 13
    Jamstik+▲93

    The Portable Smart Guitar

    2015

14. 14
    Astropad▲246

    Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

    2015

15. 15XO
    Xbox One Controller Driver for OS X▲92

    2015 · github.com

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    Razer Kishi▲86

    Bring console-level control to your mobile phone

    2020

17. 17PB
    Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows▲105

    Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI…

    May 2026

18. 18IM
    I made a MIDI tool to teach me piano▲94

    2022 · github.com

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    Super MIDI Pak▲101

    Inside your SNES is a MIDI synth waiting to be set free

    2021

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    ControllerKeys▲3

    Turn your game controller into a Mac productivity device

    Jul 2026 · kevintang.xyz

21. 21
    MidiTabs▲8

    Turn your guitar playing into tabs and notation

    20d ago · miditabs.com

22. 22CC
    Controllers.cc – Compare midi controllers and small keyboards▲8

    2014 · controllers.cc

23. 23AL
    Ableton Live MCP▲123

    Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice? Me too! I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby. The chat messages I sent to Codex to make this: in ableton, make a self reflective song, with audio vocals (via macos say) and chip tunes and 80's drum machines. should be a real edm banger i want midi for everything but vocals please, with ableton devices. not prerendered audio for instruments needs some fills and should hit way harder after "3-2-1 i become the sound" the vocals are squished too much (read…

    May 2026 · github.com

24. 24IW
    I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one▲26

    I had two old USB gamepads lying around that I wanted to use, but my computer is too far from the couch, so I wrote a little ESP32-S3 firmware that turns USB gamepads into Bluetooth ones. You connect your gamepad to the ESP32-S3 with an OTG cable, power the ESP32 with either 5V somehow or a powered USB hub, and now you can pair the controller via Bluetooth to your PC!

    Dec 2025 · github.com

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