Band jams on hacked 'Guitar Hero' controllers

Using their expertise in audio software, the Guitar Zeros have manipulated Guitar Hero controllers to play synthesized sounds, and they're ready to play at a venue near you. Hear how they did it and watch them perform.

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• guitar
• hero
• zeros
• music
• controller
• software
• hacking
• cnet
• crave

[qinm8r]

I think he already learned how to play real guitar.

[thebigboss1212]

Quote of the day: "the limitations are limitless".

[Kelthire]

A guitar hero controller into a keytar? im not surprised.

Good work though. You just turned a controller into a real instrument

[KINGxTOASTY]

240p we meet again....

[fulhaminator]

As for the people saying Max isn't programming - it produces a product or application by arranging script to do what you want - options are fairly limitless - So essentially it's a 'language' that can build a programe.

[fulhaminator]

As a University music student I really appreciate this work. A debate about guitar being better than midi controll is really friverlouse. The only real connection to a guitar is the shape of the controllor - this action script with max could be transfered to any controller and hence the binary concept is quite inspireing. For the people calling this a gimmic - you clearly don't understand music culture or theory - Postmodern diction suggests this stands in it's own right -personalopinons aside

[Burton910h]

its cool as hell, but i think guitar sounds so much better, and guitars are just sick to be able to play

[elysium735]

@logipi79 Way to discover the secret; All musical instruments and just giant pitch-shifting devices. A midi controller or synth with realistic enough sounds would fool the human ear. The devices to do this already essentially exist, but assembling them in a controller that can do all a guitar can as easily as a guitar can is hard. Especially to do it cheap enough to turn into a game that people can afford. The guitar hero guitar as it is in just an inefficient place to start. Cool though.

[StealthyJaz]

@kelechi96 this

[kelechi96]

@xikliimaxx Calling Action Script a programming language is like calling a toy car an F1 race car.

[aleg12]

maybe make a band with real instruments. maybe youll get laid.

[sfh113]

the singer is awful hahahaha