Comments on: GarageRockBand

By: jason

jason — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:40:06 +0000

got it all to work on the ion pro kit, but no luck on the cymbal pads being unlinked from the same color drum pads. anyone know how to get around this?

By: Drey

Drey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:49:47 +0000

Works well with PS3 but have slight delay with the sound, can anyone help please???

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:18:57 +0000

By disabling key repeats, I solved the “latency” problems with the PS3 rock band drums.

By: Tomi

Tomi — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:39:57 +0000

Works great on PS3 drum kit, except I got annoying latency problem.

By: xomp

xomp — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:16:08 +0000

This does not work in Leopard. For some reason when switching to keyboard typing everything is greyed out. Shame really..

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:55:07 +0000

Got the Rock Band 2 drums to work with Live 5 with Reason 2.5 running as a slave (input to Redrum) in OSX

— Use Gamepad Companion
— Map buttons (as above) to a,w,s,e,d keys. a is best for the kick.
— Set keyboard as a midi input device in Live preferences
— Hit z or x keys until you are in Octave c1 to d2 (Octave comes up momentarily in lower left hand corner when you hit z or x)

That’s it! Happy trails!

You can map to other nearby keys to pick up different pads on Redrum if desired…

By: Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:33:13 +0000

I finally got around to trying this. Thanks for sharing this info!

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:23:57 +0000

if u have done or if u plan to connect a ps3 controller to the mac using gamepad c. can u please tell me how to calibrate it or tell me the button layout anyways the rock band drums works! i installed an extra driver and now i have my own electronic drumkit

By: kfractal

kfractal — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:03:41 +0000

thanks it was a good idea to try with the “musical typing” in GB.

i found “junxion” too which works by sending midi data instead (http://www.steim.org/steim/junxion.html) I am not affiliated with that group at all but i can attest that it works much better. Nearly no lag…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:53:02 +0000

I have had no problems getting my 360 drums and guitar mapped to the keys for musical typing. I am in the process of figuring out how to be able to have the strum bar actually matter. I can get the strum bar to be recognized but I am still trying to figure out how to sync the strumming with pushing the buttons down to make chords and such.

By: Bill Pendry

Bill Pendry — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:18:04 +0000

This was with 10.4.11 and GB ’06. I now have an iMac with 10.5 and GB ’08 but haven’t had time to test this method with the new setup yet.

By: J

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:11:38 +0000

What version of Garageband and OS are you using >?

By: Bill Pendry

Bill Pendry — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:38:49 +0000

Eric, the 360 driver downloads as a disk image that contains an installer package.

Vince, are you using PS3 or 360 drums? If 360 you will need the 360 driver.

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:27:09 +0000

I got everything setup and mapped correctly in GPC however when I switch over to Garageband and try to play the keypresses aren’t recognized. I made sure to hit the ‘Start’ button in GPC before switching to GB. I also tried going into TextEdit to see if anything was displayed but nothing there either. Any ideas?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:22:14 +0000

I downloaded from tattiebogle for the driver, but I can’t seem to find it on my computer. When you install are you supposed to look for a program somewhere to test it?

By: Andy Day

Andy Day — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:18:32 +0000

video of drums with 360 and download links! it can be done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvne–QY_FI

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:43:12 +0000

yeah, i got it to work as well. thanks for the help, i used the 360 drum pad. but i noticed there is a moderate lag, with the drum pad. is there anything i can do to fix that?

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:27:34 +0000

I can also verify the v0.7 works just fine with the 360 Rock Band drum kit. Kudos for the awesome finds!

By: P9TV

P9TV — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:49:22 +0000

Tattiebogle.net just released version 0.7 and it works for 360 version of Rock Band with the drum kit. So two thumbs way up to both you and tattlebogie for great software and a great tutorial!

By: P9TV

P9TV — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:07:39 +0000

It looks like the 360 controller doesn’t get properly recognized by the Xbox 360 Controller driver provided by http://tattiebogle.net/ yet, I would think a 0.7 update (current version 0.6) would cover this, as its not being recognized power wise (e.g. the X Logo button isn’t lighting up). Once that is sorted it should be a fairly easy map like the PS3 version. This does amaze me the 360 version doesn’t just load up, but it may be the mechanics of the system. Here’s to waiting for the drivers so us mac users can get their GarageBand on.