Guitar Hero Drums Hacked to Play Real Music
December 12th, 2009
While word on the street is that future versions of Rock Band might actually teach you how to play real instruments, modder Andy Lunn couldn’t wait that long and figured out a way to make real music with his Guitar Hero drum kit.
These fancy Guitar Hero World Tour drums are velocity sensitive and have a pair of cymbal pads, which made the kit the perfect controller for realistic drumming. With the help of OSCulator, Andy managed to map the pads to work as a MIDI controller for GarageBand on his Mac. The results of his efforts can be seen in the video below:
The cool thing about this hack is that all you need is the GHWT Wii wireless drum kit, a Wiimote, a copy of OSCulator, and a Mac with GarageBand installed to do this yourself. You can check out Andy’s complete tutorial over at Vultrix.
If you’ve got a Windows PC, you might be able to pull off something similar using this Wiimote-to-MIDI hack and a copy of an audio sequencer of your choosing.
[via lifehacker]
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Categories: Computing Hacks + Mods Technology Video Games
Tags: drums garageband guitar hero hack mac music osculator percussion sound wii wiimote
Wiimotes are INCREDIBLE devices
http://www.franklinkite.com/franklinkite/2009/06/wii-drums.html
That’s really cool, didn’t think wiimotes could be used for this kind of thing well done. http://bit.ly/8h0GVP
I prefer the Pussy Cat dolls sing along with Wii
The U-Sing Pussycat Dolls game site allows you to become the star of the video and personalise it with your own goofy pic that you can use on Facebook and MySpace….