I’m currently working on an open source project which could be of interest to the chiptune scene, it’s basically an XNA application which makes it simple to connect a Rock Band/Guitar Hero drum kit your PC or xBox and assign custom sound samples to each pad.
The idea came about when I wanted to add a drum kit to my own nerdcore/chiptune performance setup but couldn’t afford it so when I saw my old Rock Band kit standing in the corner of my living room coated with dust , I decided as well use it for something, especially now that music video game market is dead, all that hardware is going obsolete and unused, a little bit like 2600s and C64s after the 80′s game market crash.
I tried to use Andrew Rudson’s Drum Machine (http://andrewrudson.com) tool but it wasn’t exactly what I needed, so I decided to make my own tool and open source it.
As I’m writing this, the code is at version 0.2.1, it’s still very dirty but it’s functional at a basic level.
I’ll be adding some VJing features in the coming weeks, customizable retro games, video loops and glitches/video effects which call all be mixed live and triggered by hitting the pads.
You can check it out here (http://toydrummer.codeplex.com), please feel free to contribute or send feedback, it’s always appreciated ^-^
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