Christopher Dolan

Where is my Plutonium Vehicle?

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That will get me far!

@theRumble

YEs you can...

Check out my videos on youtube

MY user name is COMP1DEMON

WIth only a used guitar her drum set or if you want to spend a bit more money a good sequenced midi box and ION brain - you can turn your roland kit into something that can play rockband,

If you look and watch carefully - the charting on rockband is almost true tabliture for drumming - it is very ingenious in it's coding if you can see what they did, see my other post to explain how it works (above).

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hey there snotty boy/girl.

It is not a rich kid toy. It is my project. Took me a month to save up for just the ion kit. I did my forum reading and spent over 2 years deleloping and tweeking my set to be where it is.

I am not looking to join a band at the moment - I am enjoying learning to play the set and just starting to get into playing open on my own without the master track of the game - using my own sounds from my real drum brain out of an amplifier.

As for Haiti - I could care less - I have my own problems to worry about. I made my 20 donation to my church - I can't do anything else.

@flett

Yes, I Know there are no notes - but it is called a NOTE CHART in the game - stemming from the note chart from guitar hero - they used the same NOTE CHART CONCEPT that started on guitar hero and extended it to drums (hence I still call it a note chart). But just like guitar tabliture.. think of the CHART (or lanes) in rockband (better example than guitar hero) as tabliture. THe red can only represent SNARE - (except when they flip the hi hat and snare in some songs like orange crush and everlong) But except for the flipped chart on those rew rare songs red will always be snare. Yellow will always be hi hat and tom (pretty easy when playing to know which one to hit especially if you know the song) on rare occasion it will be a small splash cymbal and since they usually are right near the hi hit on a real set - the yellow lane is used to represent them. The blue will represent alot of things, TOM, OPEN HI HAT, RIDE Cymbal splash, RIDE BELL, OR COW BELL. Again, if you know the song pretty easy to read the blue for what it is - (though open hi hat takes some getting used to since it is coded for a reason that way, but since there is no hi hat pedal in the game by default people that are not drummers do not realize what it is. Then there is green TOM or Crash cymbal (and effects pads for some songs - these are effects sounds the drummer triggers live for some songs). Line will always be the bass (kick) drum.

So for only 4 lanes - you can really learn to play a 9 piece set if you learn the songs in your head.

SO smart ass - while drums don;t have NOTES - rockband and guitar her have NOTE CHARTS or lanes that represent what you are playing. The toy guitar will never ever translate to playing a real guitar - the only thing it will teach a guitar player is how to use all 4 fingers and give them muscle memory for moving on their own, but rockband will teach you drums if you have the right kit and the right open mind to learn.

The other thing about this kit that they don;t tell you is that it is a MIDI BOX. It is just a midi card inside a box with midi note hard coded into the firmware.

IN ORDER TO USE THIS - YOU NEED A GUITAR HERO DRUM SET - NOT A ROCK BAND DRUM SET.

It has a switch to differentiate between the two games as the layouts and charts are a lot different (5 notes vs 4) and orange is not on rock band + the midi notes differ.

I would be interested in hooking this module up to a real drum brain and I would like to see how well it works with a Alesis DM5 or a DTXpress 4 or Roland T3,5,7,10 ect....

I will bet you if you have V drums or any other electronic set you can jsut use the module and you are set.

I prefer the modules at rockbandkickbox.com
Mike makes way better stuff - I bought all his stuff.

Again check my video diary at comp1demon on you tube - I think the GM1 is a rip off of products on the market for awhile now.

I will add more later.

@MNeko

I can prove rockband can help you learn or make you a better drummer.

Again you need to know since there are only 4 colors, what pad, cymbal to hit during the song - but once you learn it a bit and make the mistake of hitting the wrong one (ride instead of blue tom. open hi hat instead of ride) ect... you will learn.

TO prove this I started a Video diary of me learning drums from rock band

I bought an ION kit with extra cymbals. modded the hell out of the kit to make it realistic as possible and recorded myself playing songs as well as doing tutorial and introduction videos to the mods I did to help people out with their mods and if you watch me playing rockband around November of when the ION kit came out to my most recent videos you will see I learned alot. I even have a open / closed hi hat mechanism to learn open closed notes on the hi hat (yellow/blue) as well as midi and real drum module conversions to help it sound correctly to me as well so I can play along to the game and hear ME not the master track playing.

Check me out on youtube

COMP1DEMON on you tube.

Please no flames. This is strictly for fun and documentation.

I personally was thinking about a Epro drum set for rockband as an upgrade to my kit now. This looks interesting too.

I have a fully compatable box I can sell you to make your ions 100% compatable with guitar hero drumming.

Email me

Windows 7 please.

MY Idea to fix the Economy. Give the states back their rights, give the Federal Govt only the power the founding fathers intended them to have and have them stay out of out businesses. I'm tired of hardworking Amercians getting taxed to bail out PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. If a Private company can't keep it self in the black then they should fold just like the mom and pop corporation. Less taxes to bailing out failed businesses would be more money to spend on things such as WINDOWS 7 and perhaps a new i7 MOBO and Processor.

Now if i get a BLU RAY, HD DVD combo drive will it play my HD DVD too? I do have a nice collection and would like to put the 360 add on away forever.

I am all over this - MY POPCORN A100 is heading for ebay.

I will buy this the moment it is avalable - I love the PCH products!