Comments on: Drum Sensitivity Tuning Kit for Guitar Hero: World Tour

By: xbrrzt

xbrrzt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:05:41 +0000

same problem! how do you fix it?

By: SAMBO (RAMBO)

SAMBO (RAMBO) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:57:14 +0000

They have released at MAC compatible
http://redoctane.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/redoctane.c…

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:06:30 +0000

i have the cable but when i connect the drum on pc it’s detected as USB speaker why? i can’t tune it!
(excuse me for the bad english i’m italian)

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Stats Don't Lie: Sensitivity Edition | Mental Doodles & Lost Thoughts — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:44:45 +0000

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By: Jason Evangelho

Jason Evangelho — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:02:44 +0000

@jalla: http://community.guitarhero.com/forums/55708/forum_topics/131841

By: jalla

jalla — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Where to download?

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:13:38 +0000

you can just go to the redoctane website and they’ll send you the midi/usb cable for free. just need to fill out the warranty doohicky and it asks for the serial number on the drumset. Only took a couple days to arrive, easy breezy after that… if you have a legit version of windows

By: Zal

Zal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:47:43 +0000

Mmm i guess that kinda sucks for people who dont have all the required stuff to fix it. Im using a mac, but im pretty sure it will work through parallels – if not i’ll just go use my old pc. I have all the midi stuff already – its actually one of the main reasons im getting GH4 is to use the drums with my existing music software just for some fun.

By: Jason Evangelho

Jason Evangelho — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:45:26 +0000

@FutureAudio: No, it didn’t come off that way whatsoever – I”m actually a bit upset we didn’t have the opportunity to thoroughly test out the software.

Still, it would appear a followup article is necessary – this is a major snafu created by the publishers.

By: Future Audio

Future Audio — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:34:24 +0000

Sorry if my rant seemed directed at you Jason. That wasn’t my intention. I was just expressing my frustration with the situation that Activision and Red Octane have created.

By: Jason Evangelho

Jason Evangelho — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:44:16 +0000

@Future Audio: We didn’t realize a MIDI USB cable was involved. Hell, we don’t even have any of those lying around.

Now, we posted this before any hands-on experience – in fact we’d love to have you write a ‘counter-point’/rant regarding this. Interested? We like to present both sides of the coin…

By: Future Audio

Future Audio — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:07:40 +0000

No it’s NOT slick at all actually! It freakin sucks! For starters there is no Mac compatible version, only windows XP or Vista. Then on top of that you need a USB MIDI interface and MIDI cable to connect to your drum kit and your Windows computer. Since your using a Windows based operating system you need to install the proper drivers for the USB MIDI interface which takes a few tries because Windows is crap. Then you also need to have your drum kit connected to your video game system while in Guitar Hero: World Tour’s Music Studio to see how the sensitivity is effected when you change it in the Drum Kit Tuning program on your PC. Now once you finally get everything installed, connected and communicating it’s pretty simple to use. BUT come on! Why should the consumer have to deal with all of this? Why couldn’t they make this part of the game or at least as an update to the game? Not everyone has a PC. Not everyone has a MIDI cable and a USB MIDI interface laying around or wants to wait for Red Octane to send them MIDI-USB cable. Make an easy solution that helps EVERYONE or back to the drawing board! Just my two sense.

By: Jason Evangelho

Jason Evangelho — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:51:54 +0000

Now THAT is slick. Nice to see developers responding almost immediately to a problem.