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Posted April 9th 2006 under Games, Sound
Previously I have investigated game controllers as musical instruments / inputs (here and here), and creating music with video games here. I am really interested in the re-appropriation of gaming technology and environments for creative exploration in sound.
Harmonix, creators of successful music video games such as Amplitude and Frequency, have released Guitar Hero stateside, which is now finally getting a release over here. It’s great to see developers like Harmonix being able to create such titles.
Aside from the game, the best thing is an instant hackable input device. CreateDigitalMusic are also interested in this. So here are some things I have found. Have you created a Guitar Hero hack? Post a comment.
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Wireless Guitar Hero mod (via Make).
Using a real guitar to control guitar hero -> link
Travis Chen and Sunny Chan created this sampling sequencer using Max/MSP, video here. Slightly unrelated, listen to Super Disco Brothers from Travis. (via Kotaku)
Turn Guitar Hero into a real guitar, via Joystiq. Watch videos at the bottom.
Will Carter says: “here’s a quick video (~20 seconds) of the guitar hero controller used as a controller for a super-basic synth I cooked up in 5 minutes…”
Comments
(May 10th 2006)
I just made an application for Mac OS X that uses the Guitar Hero controller to produce MIDI sounds. Anyone can check it out and report any bugs. I’m using the Super Dual Box Pro as my PS2 to USB adapter and would like to know if the program works with other adapters.
Please visit http://nickblog.simrealitystudios.com/?p=164 to read about it and post any comments.
(May 18th 2006)
[...] Of course, not everyone is going to want to go buy a box, unbox a commercial game, and use it as is. Before Guitar Hero even came out, I suggested some people would want to hack the thing for their own purposes in Max/MSP. Sure enough, quite a few people did (most likely entirely independent of my writing; I won’t take credit for that!), and Cybersonica organizer Chris O’Shea did a great round-up of Guitar Hero hacks while we at Team CDM were busy wrangling with our servers. Go check it out, and if you have a gaming hack of your own, let us know about it! I’m going to hold out for non-guitar controllers, myself, but I love the idea. [...]
(October 9th 2006)
I did the “Guitar hero controller in a real guitar” hack as well.
Info and pictures here…
http://uhacc.org/forums/index.php?board=44;action=display;threadid=2942