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AdamW · 10-30-2008, 08:56 PM

It would almost certainly work with DTXMania. However, the cymbal/hi-hat is in a pretty stupid position, which is what's holding me up from getting one. I don't think playing hi-hat / snare rolling stuff would work very well on it, and several reviews of GH:WT itself have remarked on that.

edit: while we're on the peripherals: I'm 99% sure the Ion 'Drum Rocker' kit is useless for DTXMania, as the brain will only send four channels (Rock Band 2 uses software algorithms to guess whether you're hitting the cymbal or drum pad in free play mode). So even though it has more than enough pads for DTXMania, it won't be usable. Shame.

You could of course buy the drum brain to turn it into a real kit and then get the Yamaha midi-USB adapter to turn it BACK into a USB peripheral and then play both DrumMania and DTXMania with it, but that's just as expensive as buying a DTX or DJ Dao, and probably not as good.

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AdamW //bemanistyle::[Regular] AdamW is offline Join Date: Dec 2006 AdamW's Collection Posts: 1,030 Marketplace Rating: 0	It would almost certainly work with DTXMania. However, the cymbal/hi-hat is in a pretty stupid position, which is what's holding me up from getting one. I don't think playing hi-hat / snare rolling stuff would work very well on it, and several reviews of GH:WT itself have remarked on that. edit: while we're on the peripherals: I'm 99% sure the Ion 'Drum Rocker' kit is useless for DTXMania, as the brain will only send four channels (Rock Band 2 uses software algorithms to guess whether you're hitting the cymbal or drum pad in free play mode). So even though it has more than enough pads for DTXMania, it won't be usable. Shame. You could of course buy the drum brain to turn it into a real kit and then get the Yamaha midi-USB adapter to turn it BACK into a USB peripheral and then play both DrumMania and DTXMania with it, but that's just as expensive as buying a DTX or DJ Dao, and probably not as good. __________________ DMV5 SP : 1026.20 DMV6 SP : 1085.07 DMV7 SP : 1050.39 (target: 1100) Next Music From Tokyo - MassDre / sgt / uhnellys / susquatch tour Canada Oct 14-19 Last edited by AdamW : 10-30-2008 at 08:58 PM.