Gamepad as Controller

Hey, everyone. I recently purchased a pretty inexpensive USB Gamepad to use with my PS3. However, I also recently was somewhat elightened to that it may be feasible to use as a MIDI controller, to make up for my lack of a working one. I looked it up, and found this site:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jan03/articles/pcnotes0103.asp
I picked up VMIDIJoY, which is responding well to controller input. However, the problem is that I have no idea what I'm doing! I've never been so saavy setting up MIDI controllers inside Music Creator, and to make it worse, I'm only on MC3. Has anyone tried any of these programs? Are there any alternatives?
Quick Edit: I gave the 'Rejoice +Midi Yoke' method a try, but Rejoice doesn't startup, I just get an error. I'm trying out MIJOY Pro 4.