Today's craftiest video: Rock Band drums as real drum kit

Agreed. I was like...come on....come on....let me hear them! But he never did :(

wait.. did the video end? Did I miss the cool part?

NO MORE DAMN ROCK BAND POSTS Please!

It's like a daily thing here. Enough! Stop doing them for a good week, please.

We get it, Joystiq loves the game.

@TrenchyC

Here's a concept you see something that has Rock Band in the title, DON'T CLICK ON IT...

Here is a new concept, they flood the site with dumb rock band topics. They have added two new ones since my post. They talk about it every single damn day for like 2 months now.

This is the best thing about this 'article'.

Indeed.

"this can make for a pretty handy (although fairly minimal) portable gig setup"
Only if you want to play the whole gig at a set volume, or turn a knob to change the volume. Instead of, you know, just hitting the drums at a different velocity.

Yes, you're far better off using a midi-keyboard from drums ironically. Far less fun of course.

of course, soon instrument simulation games are gonna focus on more dynamic features like velocity sensitivity to add more challenge.

You could maybe use a VST plugin that converts an analog signal to MIDI velocity information (like Digital Peak Meter Pro http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_DPeakMeterPro/ - tutorial: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2819168.)

Mic the drums, record the MIDI signal and mic output, and use the plugin to convert the sound of you bashing on those apparently loud-ass plastic pads into velocity.

Once you get it all rigged up as a MIDI drum set, use it to 5-star Raining Blood on expert in Guitar Hero 3. (http://egyokeo.com/midihero/) Then send it in to Joystiq and we'll all make fun of you.

If you really need something more accurate than that, you could cut open your Rock Band drums add some piezo transducers to the pads and get a cheap drum brain (http://members.cox.net/ampage/triggers.htm). But that kinda cuts on the USB plug-and-play convenience even more.

Neither solution solves the bass pedal very elegantly, though.

I'm interested to see if I can get this working with Drumagog (the best drum sound replacer on the market). I've got insane drum samples that I could trigger from this thing.

I only understood about half of this, and it wasn't the half that explains how to get the drum kit working with GarageBand. :(

IF the controller is a standard HID joystick via USB, OS X will recognize it automatically. IF you have Max/MSP, that program can convert HID joystick information into MIDI any way you can conceive of. Max/MSP costs money, so there is a similar program called PD which is open source and may have the same functionality.

You would need to send MIDI between two applications to get this working, so, in comes Apple's IAC Bus. You can turn this on in OS X's audio MIDI setup. In Max or PD, you can then send MIDI out the IAC bus, and in Garageband, you can make a new track and set its input to that same IAC bus.

Yeah, yo need a good sound device to use FL Studio well. A laptops noise farter probably won't cut it.

Use the ASIO4ALL sound driver. Zero delay.