Dj with a Guitar Hero Controller
Arcade buttons are cool
but taking a plastic guitar into the crowd and taping away a solo is some next level fun. In the past 5 years I have experimented with just about every piece of midi gear out there so now its time to raid the game controller closet and continue to find new ways of mixing 2 songs together. The crazy thing is how well cue point juggling techniques translated to the Rock Star guitar. It may seem like a limited controller but with 5 buttons, a 2 way strum bar and some whammy action you can do a lot with a little. I tried every guitar made for guitar hero and in the end this Rock Band edition for the PS3 works the best and offered the most flexibility. Want to try it yourself? Yes, I will be posting pre-set files and instructions soon so you can get your own air guitar button tap on.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am Quote
simply..clap clap clap
February 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am Quote
Ean mah man, you are a Midi-Macgyver. You should find a way to colaborate w/ DJ Nu-Mark. Let everyone bring out their toys!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am Quote
I’ve been thinking about this, cool!
February 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm Quote
Very cool-
February 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm Quote
ahhh shucks.. video not available…
February 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pm Quote
huh…. there it goes…
thats odd. anyways – awesome as always.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:22 pm Quote
that’s great! how do you convert the game controller into midi? man the crowd was really loving it ha. it reminds me of this project(Press Play on Tape):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XiXQ6wEyM
February 25th, 2008 at 11:20 pm Quote
Man you certanly are one of a kind, I’m realy pleased to see that you do the most desirable tricks I can image, the coolest and always in the easy way, bay the way with a lot of creativity and style, so be even more cool sahring it with us, becouse as I’m a guitar hero adictved and now will be the most frustated DJ in the world until I be able to mix it toghether like you, we are waiting. Great video and performance, congratulation
February 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm Quote
This is just great. It is great that dj come into the crowd and become one of them…One of my favorite dj videos on youtube. Go’s directly into favorites! :D
Good luck Ean and be even better!!! ;)
p.s Are you maybe coming in croatia in some club soon????????????? I really want to hear you live…
February 25th, 2008 at 11:54 pm Quote
good question, will you be in Brazil soon? can you make avaliable a shedule to us how wanto to meet/see a live presentation?
February 26th, 2008 at 2:10 am Quote
Can’t wait for the instructions and pre-set files. Ean did you use this with a mac or a PC?
February 26th, 2008 at 4:05 am Quote
God Damn…
February 27th, 2008 at 12:22 am Quote
Well the next logical step would be to hook up all the Rock Band instruments / controllers and have a samplefest of music / controllerism… Need any band mates Ean?
February 27th, 2008 at 12:31 am Quote
Totally!!!! i hooked up the drums and they worked really well. Not sure about the MIC though- that would be cool if it worked as a sampler.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:27 am Quote
tap on!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm Quote
hi all!
what’s the name of the song is EAN playing with the guitar?
thnaks!
February 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm Quote
Hey Ean what are the stickers on our keyboard controller all about? Do you have and special system worked out for use of an actual keyboard.
@rialler – i am pretty sure it is “sweet child of mine” by guns and roses
February 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm Quote
OMG — could this be possible? can somebody in this world do no know this song by hearing the frist 3 notes – I refuse to tell, I can’t, I will not, no, no way, ok is Guns n’ Roses – Sweet Child o’mine
February 27th, 2008 at 11:39 pm Quote
Yes, I have been working on a new layout for the oxygen8 V2. Its just about ready to release and yes all the keys have functions. Everything you need to juggle mix, effect, loop 2 decks can easily be done from one oxygen 8 but it works best if you are mixing externally on a real mixer.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am Quote
sorry… sorry.. hehe
but first of all… thanks DJ elvis!! ;-)
I want to add… another grat EAN demonstration. He encourages me doing something diferent whith Dj software. I’ve been playing on dj software since traktor dj studio 1.0 and I had no idea these things were posible.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm Quote
WHAT MIDI CONTROLLER ARE YOU USING EAN IN THIS VIDEO WITH THAT STICKERS ON IT???
February 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm Quote
oxygen 8 v2. painted black
February 28th, 2008 at 10:59 pm Quote
thx! and what is that midi that you used in video when you explain how to set up your gear in the club? that midi controller is very nice!
February 28th, 2008 at 11:06 pm Quote
I FOUND IT! NOVATION REMOTE SL! :D
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 am Quote
What is the name of the song that is playing….not guns n roses. the one in the background.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am Quote
Thats Bob Sinclair “Love Generation”.. yes, the cheesy club hit of a few years back… but they sound sooooo good together.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 am Quote
Thanks!! I really like the site and all of the info. Will you be playing in Texas anytime?
March 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm Quote
Ean…what did you use to interface the guitar with Traktor? Joytomidi, puredata? Can you give us some info on how you did it?
All I’ve found is a site or two for joytomidi that is very badly translated. Any help would be very helpful.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:33 pm Quote
Hey Ean!
did you play the guns n roses track from the original track ? was it in the same key as “love generation” or did you sample it and changed the key ?
Is there a way to play a track in diffrent Keys using the keyboard ? or do i have to sampel a track to make it work ?
Thanks !
March 12th, 2008 at 9:38 pm Quote
Yes, i am just replaying the intro of the original guns and roses song. Yes, those 2 songs happen to be in the same key when key locked. Thats the easiest way to accomplish that but you could also change the key independent of the tempo and make any song work with anything. Theoretically.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm Quote
Hi Ean!
Can you please post some instructions on how you do this.
I really would like to try this my self.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:53 am Quote
Hey Ean, I was so impressed with your presentation that I did not realizes that you are not touching the strumbler, just pretending to be, am I Right ? besouse if I’m right I’m able to do the trick for a few days now, but if you are hiting the strumbler togueter wiht a note buton to make one midi code from thow buton in the controler this is the big deal that I’m burning my head and didin’t make it work ! Can you give me some clues about it, I’m making it work perfectly with a PS2=>usb converter and any of this softwares: JoyToKey Ver3.7.4 or Rejoice, that are midi or keyboard translators, but just one button a time
March 17th, 2008 at 10:45 pm Quote
I am certainly using the strum bar, its working in many different ways including triggering playback and even pitch bends. I have aited on releasing my method for djing just yet because it needs to be perfected and then I will give out a plug and play template that will work for everyone. To be honest, there are a lot of ways to do this type of thing. i am going to post another way to do it in Ableton that one of our readers set up.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:26 pm Quote
Hey man.. I bought a PS2 to USB adaptor after I saw ur post.. but I cant do the mapping, do you think you can clarify the details with this Guitar ?Hero thing?
Cheers.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:38 am Quote
Im still waiting for the instructions :(
June 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am Quote
http://www.djtechtools.com/2008/05/09/how-to-dj-with-guitar-hero/
April 26th, 2009 at 10:08 pm Quote
Could you send me the sound you play with the guitar plz ? :(
April 27th, 2009 at 5:02 pm Quote
I am using the original song sweet child of mine and just sampling the solo
April 28th, 2009 at 12:52 am Quote
I know but I found this hard to take the same as u lol I’ll retry.. xD