Guitar Hero the Instrument

**daeyeth** · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 295

Do you think the Guitar Hero controller will ever evolve (mod wise) to the point being able to emulate the guitar with freestyle play? I see no reason it shouldn't and I remember seeing a midi-modded GH controller that seemed to work pretty good. It's my dream to be actually able to music from the controller! I mean, it's pretty much just an electric keyboard with a strum bar right?

**MetalMadness** · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1095

All they need to do is have a practice mode where you play whatever notes you want - maybe you get to pick a song style - and the fret runs and records what you play. Whether or not it comes out in GH format or computer format is probably just a matter of time. That would be alot of fun, though.
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**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

The basic problem with this concept is that the GH controller is a 5 button device, and a 24 fret 6 string guitar is a 5 octave (60 note, well, 61 actually) device (voicing issues aside for the sake of simplicity). I'm sure that it probably wouldn't be terribly hard to code up some sort of mapping program that used a Playstation->USB dongle into a PC and mapped those 5 buttons to midi notes, but the question then becomes *which* 5 notes would you like, because getting a selection of more than 5 would be the challenge/impracticality of the thing.

Riz.
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**catfish7** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 927 Location: North Florida

Riz is right. If you just associate each button with a note, you have yourself a Little Tykes guitar, rock out to some Mary Had a Little Lamb! Freestyling seems pretty impractical on the GH guitar.

**TheShineNSB** · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 121

It sucked in Parappa the Rapper and it would suck in Guitar Hero.