The meta buttons (start, select, back) map directly to their standard controller counterparts.
The whammy bar is implemented as an axis, used for menu navigation.
Fret Buttons are implemented as the standard action buttons on the controller- for example, the buttons on a guitar controller for the Xbox 360 map to the face buttons and left shoulder buttons on the standard Xbox 360 controller.
Implementation as game controllers Ī guitar controller is almost always an adaption of existing controller technologies for a given home video game console-all features of the guitar are implemented using features found on a standard game controller.
2.12 The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii).
2.11 Rock Band 4 (Xbox One, PlayStation 4).
2.10 Rock Band 3 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 & Wii).
2.9 Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3, & Wii).
2.8 Rock Band (Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3, & Wii).
2.7 Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, & Wii).
2.6 Guitar Hero 5 (PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, & Xbox 360).
2.5 Guitar Hero World Tour (PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, & Mac OS X).
2.4 The Guitar Hero: On Tour trilogy (Nintendo DS) and the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero.
2.3 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, & Mac OS X).
2.2 Guitar Hero II (PlayStation 2 & Xbox 360).
The guitar design for Guitar Hero Live does not use the five colored frets, instead using two rows (one black and one white) with three buttons each. The fret buttons are colored usually in the order of (from lowest to highest pitch) green, red, yellow, blue, and orange. Different games and models of controllers have introduced additional features, such as effects switches, additional fret buttons, and fret touch pads. The controllers also feature a whammy bar, which is used to bend notes and collect each game's equivalent of bonus energy. The controllers are played by holding down a colored fret button that matches a colored, on-screen note, while pressing the strum bar as the note passes through the target. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as UmJammer Lammy: NOW!, GuitarFreaks, Guitar Hero, and the Rock Band series. The guitar controllers bundled with Guitar Hero releases (from left to right): Gibson SGs for Guitar Hero & Guitar Hero II (PlayStation 2) and Gibson X-Plorer for Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360) and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PC)Ī guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument.