While the Rock Band drum kit opted for a more conventional four-pad arrangement, the Guitar Hero kit utilizes three pads and two cymbals. That should be easy enough to check as I have a bunch of switches lying around, both momentary and latching. I removed the cover, stacked a bit of foamcore (or cardboard, whatever you have) so that the cove just barely didn't seat. Just arm 2 tracks, one for each controller and send the midi from both tracks to the track with the drum VSTi. Now I have a Roland TD-11KV, but my dad uses it more than I do, he was hating the look of it at first but when he hit the snare the first time he was on there for at least 3 hours straight LOL.

While the Rock Band drum set is far cheaper than the Rock Band 2 one, it's not quite as durable as the Rock Band 2 set. The only problem with it is it's so much fun that as soon as I try using it my kids want a go and there goes my chance to record anything (but that's my excuse for never recording anything anyway! I don't recommend this drum set if you are concerned about getting high scores, because I commonly drop notes on my 360 drum set. Perhaps its our significant lack of skill, but as a result of the low-clearance cymbals, we too often found ourselves hitting the bottom of the cymbal on the way back up from a strike with our stick. As you can see, I'm leaning towards the Logitech kit, but it would be great to hear someone who owns one of these kits or has experience with routing MIDI from them on a Mac before I make the plunge.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

It was made to be sold separately, but the company making the ion kits liked them so much, they decided to include them with their kid. A bit of adjustment on the springy bit and a slightly thinner chunk of foamcore and we're fully rocking now.Come join the discussion about computing, builds, collections, displays, models, styles, scales, specifications, reviews, accessories, classifieds, and more! The supports under the drum heads should not have been attached to the main chassis but rather to the drum heads themselves. However, much like their real-life counterparts, the snare and tom pads must be stuck with significant force to get the full sound of the instrument. To activate star power on a Guitar Hero drum kit, both the yellow and orange cymbals have to be hit at the same time. Guitar Hero World Tour/ Metallica/ Smash Hits/ Van Halen: The Guitar Hero drum kit's orange cymbal would be merged with the Rock Band drum kit's blue pad.

I connected this to the MIDI IN on my TD-6 and found that they perfectly triggered the snare, tom 1, tom2, open hi-hat, crash 1 and kick drum. The mounts are constructed from a combination of flimsy plastic and flimsy metal, which combine to form a, as you may have guessed, flimsy locking mechanism.and the rest of the characters speak in mumbles, an unknown language similar to characters in The Sims or communicate through Pantomime. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Seriously, if you must have drums for Guitar Hero, get some coffee cans and pots from under the kitchen cabinets and bang on them.

The Guitar Hero 2 Xplorer, the Guitar Hero 3 Les Paul and the Guitar Hero World Tour guitar work with Rock Band: AC/DC Live (and all versions of Guitar Hero). There are different songs to play, various genres, some are slower and easier, some are fast and more challenging. I use the 5 pin midi output on the built in controller with a standard midi cable - other end plugs into Emu 1820 that's connected to a PC running Windows XP.

Xbox Achievements is not affiliated with Microsoft or Xbox, it is owned and run by Resero Network Ltd. No, they are actually pretty different looking, and I hear that they fixed some of the issues with the World Tour set, but I'm hoping someone has hands on experience with the two.