Using X360 Band Hero drums as cheap drum controller

[Legion303]

Windows only, unless you can compile C# somewhere else and get it to run. Requires an X360 wireless USB receiver for your PC; I got mine for like $8 at dealextreme. This was my method:

1. download the source from http://drop.io/360mididrummer

EDIT: drop.io sold all its assets to facebook and I have no idea where the original author put his stuff. Here's a tutorial that uses his software: http://pctutorialsonline.net/index.php/guitar-hero-world-tour-drums-on-pc.html

...and here's a mirror of the software: http://goo.gl/mSRzc (different pages for bin and src)

2. edit frmMain.Designer.cs and search for "productid". Change ProductID and VendorID like this:

this.usbGHWT360Drums.ProductId = 657;

this.usbGHWT360Drums.VendorId = 1118;

...and save the changes.

3. compile the new source. I recommend the Mono C# compiler. Run xbuild.exe from within lib/mono/3.5 against PS360Drum.csproj in the source directory. If you can't find your way around a command prompt to do all this, then this method isn't for you.

4. Enjoy your working BH drumset.

Sounds great. Pressure-sensitive drums that work well with BFD2, for way less than a real drum controller. They're probably not nearly as durable as the real thing, but then I'm not a real drummer.

If you have drums (or any other kind of controller) from something else, you can still do this, but you need the product and vendor IDs from Device Manager.

-steve