Guitar Hero Hacks

Edge Online has a short blurb mentioning a project at the University of California turning the Guitar Hero guitar into a real instrument. From the article: "For the final project of their Computer Audio course, University of California students Travis Chen and Sunny Chan have created Guitar Hero Hack, a plugin for sequencing software Max/MSP that lets players assign switchable banks of samples to each of the controller's buttons, utilizes its tilt switch as a way to clear current audio on any given track, and, the two hope, might be on its way to a fully functioning live instrument." His incredibly impressive demo video is well worth watching.

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Re:The hack we really need is

[RandomPrecision]

You might not like this program then...I thought it was funny at the time.

#include <windows.h>

void main()
{
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(554,500);//Db
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(392,1000);//G
}