MIDItarHero
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Miditar hero is a program made in Max/MSP to allow a Guitar controller
Guitar controller
A guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as UmJammer Lammy: NOW!, GuitarFreaks, Guitar Hero, and the Rock Band series...

 to be used as a midi controller. Miditar hero is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX.

Controller Compatibility

Miditar hero "supports nearly all Rock Band
Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...

 and Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...

 controllers (Guitar or Drums) for almost every gaming system (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2)".
If your guitar/drum controller is not compatible, then you can make a preset for it right within Miditar hero that can be loaded the next time you boot the program.

Normal mode

In Normal mode, you can play 32 notes using the 5 fret buttons. By default the notes are E1 to B3, but you can change it if you want to. It uses a binary pattern, so going up the scales is fairly simple.

Easy mode

In Easy mode, you play the Chord progression
Chord progression
A chord progression is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord. In other words, the succession of root relationships...

s 1-8 with the first 3 buttons (green, red, yellow). Holding the blue button allows you to play Power Chords, and the orange button can change the key to major, minor, or diminished depending on what scale you have chosen. The choices for scales are Major, Harm. Minor, Nat. Minor, Blues, and Thrash. There is a choice for what key you want to play in.

Drum mode

In Drum mode, you can assign each drum pad to a sound, and you can even add a high-hat pedal.
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