Wireless Rock Band Guitar as MIDI Controller

A fun little project; using the Xbox wireless Rock Band guitar as a MIDI controller. Seen here controlling the Novation A-Station.

The guitar triggers 5 note on/off messages, of which the octave can be raised or lowered using the strum button. The tremolo arm sends a CC message, in this case to the filter cutoff frequency, while the tilt feature creates a pitchbend.

XBox MIDI controller for YMVST by Gwem

Using a USB Xbox controller, I am controlling various features of the excellent YMVST by Gwem.Using MaxMSP v5 I converted the incoming messages from the pad to MIDI CCs which are then transmitted to the VST.

YMVST is one of the best Chiptune VSTs and is available from here:
http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/