I am making a patch for the Wii Rock Band controller. I have it almost done, I made the strum bar an open note and the five buttons the next five semitones. I have the toggle switch changing between five audio waveforms (Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square, and an attempt at mimicking a real string.) What I want to do is have the plus and minus buttons change the output sound of the strum and buttons by adding and subtracting, respectively, six midi notes.

I would also like to know how to do this to switch samples output from a key press.

Also, the solo buttons (the smaller buttons farther down the neck) are read by the computer as the same as the five buttons, but at the same time all of them are also triggering another button. (ex: Green Solo button = btn_1 and btn_6) I would like to know how I can make it so btn_6 will read the other btn_1-5 and make the note output for btn_6 a perfect fifth above that.

If anyone can give me any ideas to help that'd be great, thanks.

Hi,

(feeling like I'm completely off topic as your work seems rather evolved yet )

I didn't understand if some of your difficulties lie in the fact that you use HID 'manually' ... personally I use 'wiilib' pd library to retreive info from my wiimote (I guess the GH interface is based on it).
It's easy to get the buttons status this way.

http://youngmusic.org/wiki/index.php/Wiilib

Nau

while this wiilib pd library intrigues me, the guitar i am using has a wireless usb receiver, which is why i am using [hid].

i will look further into the wiilib tho, becuase i want to use the wii balance board as a Kaoss pad for my feet.

I'd Really love if someone could help me with this. I've attached the pd patch. I want to use those two buttons (btn_8 and btn_9) to change the pitch going to the rest of the buttons and the hatswitch.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Rock_Band_Guitar.pd

Nice looking patch.

For left-right or up-down "scrolling" I use the attached abstraction. Not sure if thats what you are after but maybe it will help.

For playing different samples you could have them each in an array then have the [tabread~ "samp1"] triggered by button presses?

Again not sure if this is what you are after.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/left-right_buttons.pd

Thanks so much! That actually was just what i needed. i tweaked it just a bit.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Plus_Minus.pd

Cool! I helped someone with Pd. Nice tweakage too. =)