Comments on: We could be guitar heroes

By: Rocking Outside the Xbox - Roo Reynolds

Rocking Outside the Xbox - Roo Reynolds — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:44:01 +0000

[...] I’ve now got a fairly good setup in ControllerMate. Here’s a description (with demo video) which describes how it works. August 5, 2008 | fun, geek, home, midi guitar, music, tech, where’s [...]

By: Roo Reynolds - Playful

Roo Reynolds - Playful — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:29:33 +0000

[...] up next (that’s me!). I muttered some un-prepared and technical-hitch-ridden gubbins about my Rock Band MIDI guitar hack. Steve took the lovely photo on the right. I’m retro-engineering some explanatory slides, [...]

By: Hamish

Hamish — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:21:30 +0000

Explore the Circle of Fifths? Try this:
http://www.theguitarmaster.co.uk/staticpages/index.php?page=interactive-circle-fifths

By: roo

roo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:37:10 +0000

Interestingly, they show up as the same buttons, but with an additional button held down. e.g. the upper frets use a modifier, rather than a separate series of switches.

By: James Moss

James Moss — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:55:11 +0000

Thanks for answering my questions. I’ve got one more though :)

Do the lower frets register as different buttons to the upper ones? Ideally id like to use the top 5 frets for triggering samples and the lower 5 for looping.

By: Roo

Roo — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:29:28 +0000

I have not timed it, but it’s quick enough that I have not noticed any latency at all.

I’m using the 360 version of the Rock Band guitar.

By: James Moss

James Moss — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:10:26 +0000

Also, which version of the guitar are you using? PS3, 360 or Wii?

By: James Moss

James Moss — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:47:45 +0000

Hi Roo,

Whats the latency like with this setup? Im looking into using it for triggering clips in Ableton during my DJ sets.

By: Phil Gyford

Phil Gyford — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:22:46 +0000

Kevin Kelly just posted a bit more about music controllers, specifically mentioning the Guitar Hero controller: http://kk.org/ct2/2008/08/other-isomorphic-keyboards.php

By: Woo

Woo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:52:37 +0000

Now you need this :-)

OpenStomp Coyote-1
http://www.engadget.com/tag/openstomp