Guitar Hero controller as MIDI device?

**DOOManiac** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 147 Location: Edmond, OK

Has anybody done any work towards using the GH2 controller (or more abstractly, any game controller windows has a driver for) as a MIDI input device?

Obviously you're limited to 5 buttons, but I figured you could map them to the same notes that GH2 uses when writing a custom MIDI. I'd like to be able to use the guitar to just play along a rough draft of the song I'd like to make, and then also find a way to practice the song before committing to a lengthy build/burn/xfer process just to see if it worked.

I tried a few hours of Googling cause I figured someone had surely written software for this already, but everything I found was either a dead link, old (and incompatible with XP), or for Mac/Linux. :(

(I figured this should go in the Hardware forum and not the Software, but since it's kind of a mixed topic, feel free to move it if I posted in the wrong place)

**FBMrider86** · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject:

I think people have, but the easiest way I could think of doing it without creating drivers and programs and all that stuff would just be to download joytokey (joystick can emulate key presses) and just download a MIDI keyboard program that you can assign certain letters to play the keyboard with.
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**DOOManiac** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 147 Location: Edmond, OK

Thanks for the joytokey link.

Turns out you don't even need the other step because Anvil has its own built in software MIDI keyboard that responds to key presses. Yay.