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Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums

( Gear and New Instruments and audio and drumming and originals and video and wii )

Here is a demonstration of using both the Guitar Hero World Tour Drums for Wii and the Rock Band Drums for Wii to create a full MIDI Drumset:

Camille, the programmer of OSCulator, got his program working with the Velocity-sensitive Guitar Hero drums. Download OSCulator here:
http://www.osculator.net/wp/
I’m still using JunXion to receive MIDI from the Rock Band [...]

Turn Wii Rock Band Instruments into Real Instruments with Junxion

( Apple and Electronica and Gear and Logic 8 and Music and New Instruments and audio and diy and drumming and originals and wii )

UpdateCheck out my velocity sensitive full MIDI drumset with the guitar hero set and the rockband set.
Today I figured out how to easily turn the rock band drum set for Wii into a MIDI drum controller:

I did this with Junxion, a program that allows you to transform USB and wireless game controller input into MIDI [...]

New Youtube Videos – part 1

( Music and notation and originals and video and wii )

Here are some new videos of work I’ve done.

I’m trying to think of ways of altering the original videos that I’m rescoring so that they seem fresh again. Here is another original video:

One idea I had was to overlay the video with an inset of the recording session and a scrolling score:

I am interested in [...]

Johnny Lee’s wiimote head tracking is even cooler

( diy and video and wii )

Johnny Lee’s latest wiimote hack, tracking your head position and alternating a 3D display accordingly, is even cooler:

I installed the software and it gave me a “FishtankVR has encoundered a problem and needs to close” error, but that was fixed by installing the DirectX SDK.
I can get the program to work just by holding my [...]

Converted DIY IR Pen from Candy Toy

( diy and multitouch and video and wii )

-Update-
I modified my original design, swapping the LED onto the other end of the pen and ditching the cardboard. The thinner end plus the see through tube makes this version work magnificently.
This version was harder because I had to drill holes for the led and the wires to go through several parts of the base, [...]