Re: Guitar Hero Metallica (for PC) Hack Tool
Ted Brathwaite
As you may have noticed there are a lot of guitars out there to choose from and several platforms as well. I recommend you get a wireless USB guitar made for the play station 3 console. Why? I can guarantee they will work perfectly without any fuss. Now that we have narrowed it down that still leaves several choices. They can basically be broken down into 2 camps.
All of the play station guitars transmit standard HID messages over wireless blue tooth to the included USB receivers. The device is instantly recognized by the computer and no drivers are required. HID (human interface device) messages are fast and accurate but there is no dj program that will listen to them so your going to have to convert it into MIDI or Key strokes. There are several tools that do the latter, many of which have been covered in this post. They are all a bit complicated and some are terribly expensive so if you are after a simple solution then convert your HID into key strokes. The program I used is obscenely basic, wonderfully free (for the trial period) and does the job just fine. Its called GamePad companion. (mac) This tutorial is explained using GamePad but you can follow along with a Windows equivalent such as xpadder.
If your guitar is connected then you should see it show up in the left hand list. Simply select the Harmonix guitar icon and start assigning hot keys! First you need to select a element from the drop down list.
Now you just need to hit start and gamepad companion will start spitting out keystrokes. The next step is setting up some Traktor hot keys. I will point you in the right direction so you can experiment with some of your own ideas out over the next few weeks. Then we will come back in part 2 and explain how to really take it to the next level!
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