Problem with the Ion kit and Guitar Hero: World Tour

[TheAntipop]

I am one of the lucky ones who acquired an advance copy of Guitar Hero: World Tour. I just got it today... Unfortunately, the game has a rather large compatibility problem with the Ion Drum Rocker.

First off, the GH:WT kit has an orange cymbal which is unique to it, and obviously not present on the Ion. As various sites have reported, GH:WT will detect whether or not you have a GH:WT kit or a Rock Band kit, and adjust the note charts accordingly. Well, it detects the Ion as a GH:WT kit, which presents a problem.

The pads all work fine, but when you hit a cymbal on the Ion, for some reason it triggers two different notes in the game (the yellow cymbal triggers yellow and orange, and the green cymbal triggers green and orange). So, every time the orange note comes up, it's impossible to trigger it without triggering another pad at the same time. This causes your multiplier to break every time an orange note comes up, and really kills any chance of getting above four stars in a song (if you're lucky).

I thought that it might be a compatibility problem with Rock Band kits in general, but I hooked up my RB1 kit and it recognized it and removed the orange note from the charts (as I have read here that it would). Unfortunately, there is no option in the settings to change the type of kit manually.

If anyone knows a way around this problem, feel free to share. GH:WT is mad fun from what little I've played, and I'm bummed that I can't use my Ion with it to its fullest capacity. I'm certainly not going back to the RB1 kit. The pads feel like you're hitting a concrete wall compared to the Ion.

Any help/insight on the subject would be appreciated.

[memphus]

I would let Activision know if I were you. It sounds like they need to release a patch.

[psufan1993]

yeah Activision will get right on it /sarcasm

[javamanjake]

Eww. That's a showstopper for me. There's no way I'm going back to the stock drums, let along buying another set just for GHWT. I guess they just lost a customer until they fix it.

[ronorkis]

Same problem here dude. Sucks horse pucky

[BayouBengal032]

Well that blows.

Now you say when you hooked up the RB1 drums up to it, it just removed the orange pad. Does that mean it removes all the ride and crash cymbal notes Neversoft had charted to it? Or did they just become green and you really just lost the green tom they had charted?

[Frederf]

That's exactly what I suspected from Activision, the bare minimum of support for Rock Band hardware. I don't expect that RB2+Cymbal drum sets are going to work any better than RB2-bare drum sets despite having 3 additional discrete inputs.

[wickedbadz]

Why would another game company care about the pathetic ION drum kit? The GHWT kit is perfectly fine so who cares about ION. Besides it's never been stated a third party drum kit would be supoorted. It says Rockband kit is supported not ION.

[gongon1050]

Why would another game company care about the pathetic ION drum kit? The GHWT kit is perfectly fine so who cares about ION. Besides it's never been stated a third party drum kit would be supoorted. It says Rockband kit is supported not ION.

I hope the beginning was sarcasm.

On topic: I hope they fix that, if not I'll just stick to guitar.

[masterantonio]

That really sucks. They need to fix it, or I'm not going to bother with Guitar Hero at all. I just got the Ion, which is an official Rock Band 2 kit. I haven't even seen the Guitar Hero WT drums, but I doubt they even remotely compare to the ion.