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Type of video game controller
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)
A guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Um Jammer Lammy: NOW! and GuitarFreaks. 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. The controllers also feature a whammy bar, which is used to bend notes and collect each game's equivalent of bonus energy. Different games and models of controllers have introduced additional features, such as effects switches, additional fret buttons, and fret touch pads. The fret buttons are colored usually in the order of (from lowest to highest pitch) green, red, yellow, blue, and orange.
A guitarcontroller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument. Guitarcontrollers are often...
Guitar Hero is a series of rhythm games first released in 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead...
innovations included a new guitarcontroller featuring a six button, three-fret layout in contrast to the 5 button controller of previous games. The game...
feature the use of a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of rock music, Guitar Hero World Tour is the first game in the Guitar Hero series to feature...
Guitar Hero II challenges players to recreate the lead guitar portions of many rock music songs using a specially designed guitar-shaped controller,...
dance pads, guitarcontrollers, drum controllers, microphones and turntable controllers. With the exception of microphones, these controllers can generally...
version of Guitar Hero II can be purchased individually or in a bundle that packages the game with a cherry red Gibson SG guitarcontroller. The Xbox 360...
gameplay features the use of a special guitar-shaped controller modeled after a Gibson SG guitar to recreate the lead guitar part of several rock music songs;...
A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to...
Keytar (a portmanteau of keyboard and guitar) is a keyboard instrument similar to a synthesizer or MIDI controller that is supported by a strap around the...
"guitar" controllers (for the Guitar Freaks series and Guitar Hero series), the drum set controller (sold in a box set (or by itself) with a "guitar"...
players to use existing compatible instrument controllers, and as a bundle that provides these controllers. Guitar Hero 5 adds several new features, such as...
Entertainment. It allows the use of a third-party guitarcontroller such as those used in the Guitar Hero or Rock Band series. The German and Spanish editions...
February 25, 2024. Lyles, Taylor (January 31, 2024). "PDP's New Wireless GuitarController Works With Rock Band 4 and, Eventually, Fortnite Festival". IGN. Archived...
regular Guitar Hero guitarcontrollers for the stationary consoles, though it lacks the fifth orange button found on the guitarcontrollers. The DS Guitar Hero...
PlayStation Network on February 24, 2010. The game was designed to use a guitarcontroller, but can also be played using a normal gamepad. Players control the...
Percussion controllers such as the Roland Octapad fall into this class, as do a variety of wind controllers and guitar-like controllers such as the SynthAxe...
music and many other subgenres using special instrument controllers mimicking lead and bass guitar, keyboard, drums, and vocals. Rock Band 3 expands upon...
Modification and More, Wayne Scott Joness (Composer) "Roland G-303 Guitar Synthesizer Controller", Roland GR-300 Modification and More, Wayne Scott Joness (Composer)...
games, GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, where players use game controllers modeled after musical instruments to perform the lead guitar, bass guitar and drums...
The SynthAxe is a fretted, guitar-like MIDI controller, created by Bill Aitken, Mike Dixon, and Tony Sedivy and manufactured in England in 1985. It is...
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