Rock Band with Electronic Drums (HOWTO)

[rworne]

Considering Harmonix's stated stance on open standard controllers - why should this hack not be allowed?

This new controller is very interesting indeed.

[Shady515]

What about kind of the opposite-hooking up Rock Band drums to a pc via usb and being able to jam with some sort of soundboard or something? (I can't find an electronic drumset and I'm a guitarist who found out I can play the shxt out the drums!) Isn't there some sort of program I can get and just plug in my RB drums and jam? Even better, custom sounds per pad-like dog barks on the yellow pad and bells on the blue? Or something...Ideas...

[Bakkster]

Considering Harmonix's stated stance on open standard controllers - why should this hack not be allowed?

There are many threads about hacking the hardware, and as long as they don't abuse the game to give you an advantage in online play, or steal DLC or proprietary info, HMX is probably cool with it.

What about kind of the opposite-hooking up Rock Band drums to a pc via usb and being able to jam with some sort of soundboard or something?

Search the forum for DrumIt (I believe is the name), as this program has already been written.

Very cool, and something I had thought about doing as well. Any plans to skip the dismantled RB drums and go straight from MIDI to USB? I assume it would only require spoofing the USB info of the RB drums and adding that information to the micro controller's code.

Very cool indeed.

[zolon]

Welp, it's not roland, but I found a Yamaha DXP III Electronic Drum Kit for only $600.

Picking this up ASAP, and then I will start hacking cables to get it to work with RockBand.

I will take step by step pictures and document the path I took, for two reasons. One, I am going to probably mess up along the way, if it's documented, maybe some one can tell me where. The other, well, some one needs to. :P

Thanks for showing us all that this can be done.

And yes, there is a program called DrumIt that allows you to use ANY game controller as a drum set, aka, the RockBand drums with your windows computer.

[rworne]

What about kind of the opposite-hooking up Rock Band drums to a pc via usb and being able to jam with some sort of soundboard or something? (I can't find an electronic drumset and I'm a guitarist who found out I can play the shxt out the drums!) Isn't there some sort of program I can get and just plug in my RB drums and jam? Even better, custom sounds per pad-like dog barks on the yellow pad and bells on the blue? Or something...Ideas...

Got an Apple?

You can hook up your RB Drums to a Mac and use Garage Band.

[igotrice]

Wow, good work Aelius27.

Question: for those of us who just want to mod a double bass pedal, how do you think we should go about using just a Roland KD-7 or similar pedal trigger with a MIDI controller?

[Shady515]

no, it's a Dell...All I know for pc is Frets on Fire and Guitar Zero. I will look up Garage Band and see if there's one for windows xp.

[Bakkster]

Question: for those of us who just want to mod a double bass pedal, how do you think we should go about using just a Roland KD-7 or similar pedal trigger with a MIDI controller?

I think a double-bass mod (without using a full MIDI drum set) is overly complicated. Just make each kick drum trigger act as a momentary switch, and connect them in parallel. This combination could then simply be plugged into the kick drum port with no further modifications needed.

If you are using a full MIDI drum kit, both kick drums should simply trigger the same MIDI channel.

[zolon]

Aelius27,

You mentioned you made a program to relay the midi. As I am not a programmer by any means, I was wondering if I could get a copy?

I picked up the DTExpress III Drum Set, so now I am trying to figure out how to get the MIDI converted in some fashion that I can control.

Thanks.

Temp Solution :P

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9.../IMG_21112.jpg

[sa_nick]

Awesome work man, I knew it wouldnt be long until someone cracked this. Thinking about buying a simple midi kit myself so in a few months something like this could come in very handy. Keep up the good work *thumbs up*