http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/ Engadget Comments for Guitar Hero: World Tour's secret "instrument" really a MIDI import feature http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/In using midi peripherals to guitar hero is just awesome
Right now, i have the X360 it's ok
So, i'll definitely get it for the PS3
Tomorrow i shall
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Oh, and another -20 points because my eyes are now bleeding]]>Sep 18th 2008 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/iPhone is better!
iPhone is better!
iPhone is better!
iPhone is better!
]]>Sep 18th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/
2. This sealed the deal. I will not be buying Guitar Hero World Tour. I am a 360 owner that was looking forward to messing with the new peripherals and music creator. When they released the setlist containing not one but FOUR Tool songs, they pushed me away big time. Now that this has been announced I'm officially done with Guitar Hero. Neversoft did a good job of ruining a great franchise.]]>Sep 18th 2008 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/except maybe by karaoke companies.

And a lot of recent ones that I've heard have really bad transcriptions.

I hope, at the least, that Guitar Hero's sampled guitar sounds for the instrument creator are better than General MIDI guitar sounds.]]>Sep 18th 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/
Has midi transcriptions of almost anything, including some of your shitty fall out boy-era 'recent' POS music.]]>Sep 18th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Oh well, Im still going to pre-order it for the 360.]]>Sep 18th 2008 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/
http://www.itsbeach.com/blog/2008/06/cinco-midi-orga.html]]>Sep 18th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/
MIDI is just an interface for one computer (and I mean that in the generic sense) to say to another "this piece of data means this instrument and this note." That's extremely powerful, and in fact most professional recordings are made using MIDI somewhere. A lot of popular recordings are 100% MIDI (though not usually the guitar parts). No real recording studio exists that doesn't support MIDI.

MIDI is not just those dumb little recordings that sound like circa 1992 ring tones. It is a type of recording interface. And it's as powerful as you want it to be. I don't know exactly how they're using it in GH, but if you can import your own instrument sets and then use the game as a sort of MIDI controller, it could be pretty amazing. Not as amazing as a real recording studio, but pretty cool for a game.]]>Sep 18th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/
This opens up a Ton of customization in GHWT that would otherwise either be impossible (I haven't used the editor yet, obviously) or just annoyingly difficult to try to program with the ten button + guitar tilt method they have.

They expect most people to completely ignore the custom song mode completely, so it's cool that they're really making it for the musicians who know what they're doing.]]>Sep 18th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 18th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Sep 19th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/18/guitar-hero-world-tours-secret-instrument-really-a-midi-impo/Dec 10th 2008 11:12PM