Real Guitar Controller

[OpenChord]

So rather than just submitting an idea, I went ahead and built a device that lets you play Frets on Fire with a real guitar. Using the actual strings and frets, the hardware interprets the connections between the strings and frets as button presses and sends out the appropriate USB controller data. It lets you use a guitar like a regular guitar hero controller, where pressing on the first 5 frets correspond to the buttons, or you can map specific notes or chords to the colors.

It's all open source, and you can find more information at our website - www.OpenChord.org.

Right now, I'm looking for people who would be interested in testing it out, since I want to make sure it doesn't super-suck.. I'm also interested in meeting people who would be interested in working on the project too, but if anyone is interested in testing one out, I'd love to hear from you!

[mechy]

oh now thats cool, too bad i dont have a reelguitarusb cord

[R4L]

Awww. I thought it was free. :(

[acrox999]

Yeah, me too. Because it said 'Open Source...'.

[death_au]

It is open source. All the software and instructions are free and open for anyone to view, use, distribute, etc. It's just the hardware that costs the money. There's not much you can do about that.

[AussieJay]

Something like this...

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165298

...I infact noticed a real guitar that was converted for use with your PC :D It has a numpad where the fret buttons would be and as you strum the strings it converts them to MIDI tones or something. Sounds weird but it looks awesome. Can't remember the source though.

[AikiDzedzy]

awesome idea but what if the song is fretted badly and it sounds like absolute crap on the guitar lol?

[acrox999]

Its not the guitar produce the sound. I think...

[abomb12]

I might actually be able to do this which would be amazing since I love playing my guitar...it would also make frets on fire ridiculously easier and more fun to play...I'll try it out and let you know how it works.

Its not the guitar produce the sound. I think...

The actually guitar would produce sound no matter what since you'd actually be strumming the strings on a guitar but the game would be producing the sound to what ever song you picked...really if you had your speakers (or headphones) turned up loud enough you wouldn't hear the guitar but it would still be making noise.

[Scoreking81]

http://littlebigstar.net/main/

or u could play little big star, just get a guitar pro tab, and a 1/4 - 1/8 inch adapter at radio shack to plug ur guuitar into ur computer mic jack

[OpenChord]

Wow, sorry for abandoning this thread; I just moved to Australia, so I've been busy with doing that...

Thanks for the interest! Yeah, the strumming real notes thing does sound kinda strange.. But the the hardware figures out if you're strumming by just the contact of the wired pick to the strings, so while you can strum, you can also just tap the pick against the strings to trigger a strum...

Oh, and abomb (and anyone else interested), if you're willing to test it out for us, I could send you out a circuit board and some parts to get you started.. e-mail [email protected] and we can figure something out.

[d51]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ktBlbd ... r_embedded

[obscureni]

Hol si yo les comento q soy nuevo en este foro y me gustaria q me explicaran si es q se puede jugar con bateria en el FoF desde ya muchas gracias

[RedShadow]

Hol si yo les comento q soy nuevo en este foro y me gustaria q me explicaran si es q se puede jugar con bateria en el FoF desde ya muchas gracias

Wrong thread, wrong language, wrong everything.
Este es un foro en ingles. Como aparentemente no sabes nada de eso, Te sugiero vayas a un foro de FOF hecho especialmente para los usuarios de habla española como fofspain o algo asi.
Usa Google! O Aprende Ingles!

[Electro Tomato]

Hol si yo les comento q soy nuevo en este foro y me gustaria q me explicaran si es q se puede jugar con bateria en el FoF desde ya muchas gracias

Wrong thread, wrong language, wrong everything.
Este es un foro en ingles. Como aparentemente no sabes nada de eso, Te sugiero vayas a un foro de FOF hecho especialmente para los usuarios de habla española como fofspain o algo asi.
Usa Google! O Aprende Ingles!

Yay for using online translators and acting like you can speak a foreign language.

Damn, I would do this if it didn't cost money :(