Guitar Hero Midi Controller
Turn your Guitar Hero guitar into a midi controller, read how at Slapyak.
This was on Gizmodo yesterday, and I’m actually surprised that someone didn’t come out with this, like, right after Guitar Hero became sought after enough for bars across the country to start having Guitar Hero nights. I’m sure I’m not the only one that thought about this long ago. I would have made one, but you know… I’ve got no idea how to do that shit. BTW, is anyone impressed with watching people at bars do this? Its worse than that time I saw M83 play the Triple Rock Social Club.
M83 - Kim & Jessie
It’s a no-brainer. Obviously people want to rock out like they play guitar, but they don’t want to invest the years it takes to get any good at playing the damn thing, so why not turn the thing people are good at (i.e. a video game controller that looks like a guitar) into something they already pretend it to be (i.e. a real working instrument)?
With the current version you can:
play 2 octaves of an 8 note scale at a time
change the starting note anywhere in the range of a regular keyboard
change octaves
change keys
change tonal modes (Ionian, Mixolydian, Lydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian, Locrian)
change the timbre of a sound
change the resonance of a sound
use the whammy bar to pitchbend
play chords in the mode you have the guitar set to (major/minor/etc.)
rock out with a video game toy
1,000,000 points on Guitar Hero South Park
And while we’re on the topic of transforming video games into musical instruments, please enjoy this new track from the 8-bit group Receptors.
