But if you use USB IDs, you can only support third party controllers (I believe both companies want to allow *licensed* third party controllers) with software patches.

All previous guitar games (GH1 and 2, GuitarFreaks) achieve this simply by having the controller send an arbitrary 'signal'. GuitarFreaks guitars do the equivalent of holding down the left d-pad...

Apples, I believe Chris posted somewhere in this thread or elsewhere that the speed increase on Expert is 10%.

j00zt1n: doesn't IIDX have a 'Sudden' mode anyway? I thought it did, some of the...

Most recent live recordings are multitrack, AFAIK. I'm pretty sure Live In New York would be as it was recorded for TV.

um. do you actually understand the context of the discussion?

An HMX employee mentioned in an interview that there was no scroll speed option because this would not be compatible with "the...

FWIW, Chris, I don't have RB yet (in Canada :<) but from the videos I've seen (particularly of Blackened), the scroll speed is rather slow for the most complex drum charts. I'll send you a PM once...

ah, sorry, looked like an older kit for some reason. *very* nice setup then! those things ain't cheap =)

ah. thanks. what thread was that from?

methinks Chris will be due for a large private message from deepbluevibes some time soon. =)

an older Roland v-drums kit, right?

those are pretty nice. the new ones are real nice. :)

There was a huge ass thread about this (search for 'hyperspeed'). Some people want it, some think it's cheating (don't ask), the only hard information we have is a) it's not in RB, b) there's a...

It's really not that simple.

The things people find difficult about drumming vary a lot. Some people can follow 'complex' patterns very well at a slower speed but have trouble with even simpler...

that's just arcade machine economics though (when your sales are in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands, you *have* to charge upwards of $10,000 per unit), nothing intrinsic. You can...

tommy: fair enough, just don't want RB people to get p'ed off with too much talk about GF/DM since this is, after all, the RB forum =). what kinda level are you at for DM, out of interest?

the cheapest decent IEMs (Ety ER-6i, Shure I'm not sure of the model name in their new line up) are $99 list, sometimes cheaper. Not bad at all for the sound quality you get, which is really rather...

yes, clinTrojan's third post is correct in all aspects, just go by that. =) as we said, either proper *passive* isolation headphones or in-ear phones should work fine. the real heavy-duty isolation...

okay, we know DM is harder than RB. that was established weeks back. It's also hardly surprising, as RB is intended to be a fun casual game and 95&#37; of the people who play it never touched either DM...

Nate is correct (and I know from headphones, card-carrying member of www.head-fi.org).

Also, never buy Bose headphones.

There is a possible headphone-based solution, though: get some good...

I'm with Electric Zen. Honestly, nothing in the drum part of RB is massively hard, and from what I've heard, nothing in guitar is harder than the hardest stuff in the GH series. With that in mind,...

generally speaking it's an ability you just develop through practice; on Drummania, after a year and a half practicing, I can get through the shorter constant bass sections on Anthem's Immortal Bind...

playing cross isn't something fundamental to drumming, it's just a question of the only practical arrangement to allow you to play snare with your left hand all the time and other drums with the...