Still having trouble with your Guitar Hero: World Tour Drum kit? Drum pads not sensitive enough? Activision has taken notice of these problems and is acting quickly to support frustrated customers.
Hit the jump for instructions. Did I mention it’s free?
Like many of you, I too had a few unresponsive drum pads, specifically the green and orange. Once word broke that RedOctane had released a drum tuner program, many gamers questioned the means to connect the kits to a PC. The tuner program requires a Midi-to-USB cable that simply plugs into the rear midi port.
Thankfully Activision’s extremely helpful customer service is providing free cables by simply filling out a request here (Must request cable within 90 days of purchase). Not only will they send you the cable, but they are also shipping it overnight 1-day FedEx for no cost. My cable unboxing below…
Once you receive your drum kit cable, download the ‘Drum Kit Controller Tuner Software’ from Activision here. Instructions are included with the package, but here’s a clearer run down of the exact steps you must take to set the desired sensitivity for the drum kit.
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1) Boot up Guitar Hero World Tour and connect the Drum kit to the Wii wirelessly.
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2) Making sure the drums are powered on, connect the Midi-USB cable to the back of the Drum kit (I/O section on rear.). Vista found drivers instantly.
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3) Go to the ‘Recording Studio’ under the ‘Music Studio’ mode in World Tour. Select ‘Drums’ as instrument.
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4) Install the ‘Drum Kit Controller Tuner Software’ on your PC (Currently no Mac version, sorry!) Launch the software when done installing.
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5) Select the appropriate USB input audio device in the Tuner Software.
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6) Click “Test”. This syncs the Drum pads with the tuner.
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7) You should now be able to drum freely in the Recording Studio as well as tune the sensitivity via PC.
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8) Each pad is set at default sensitivity ’10’. The range runs from “0” to “20” with “20” being the most sensitive. Tune to your liking until it feels just right.
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9) Click “Save” which saves sensitivity settings to the Drum kit.
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10) Remove Midi-USB cable and have fun with some extremely responsive drums.
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My Guitar Hero World Tour experience can now be fully realized after following the above steps. I can no longer blame unresponsive drums pads when I’m booed off stage. Thanks Activision, RedOctane, and FedEx for some impressive customer service.
(Note: Those of you suffering from dead drums, or guitars should contact Activision customer support for assistance.)
I love you !!!!!!! Thank you very much !!!!!! You are my hero Jake.
Just registered to get my cable. Hopefully this will help out – thanks a lot Jake!
Got mine today and I have to say it’s very easy to use. I tuned my drums as best as I could, but the cymbal’s design renders some spots ineffective at triggering the sensor. If I made the yellow cymbal any more sensitive then it gets triggered when I play the orange cymbal with a medium or so hit. Despite that, it’s a whole lot better and requires a lot less effort to hit the notes now. However, I have a feeling that the cardboard/tape/re-gluing method might be slightly more effective although not official.
This solution sounds like it should have come with the game. They should of had it done thru the Wii
Enough with all the Guitar Hero. Even if this is a self help column, we’re only encouraging them to keep putting out the same crap year after year.
…plus Rock band is way better.
I should have my cable by today – that was a quick delivery on their part!
So quick question, Jake – where did you find out about this fix?
@Joltman, I don’t know if you want specifics of where Jake found this, but it was all over gaming sites last week.
http://redoctane.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/redoctane.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=21748
http://kotaku.com/5069895/activision-addresses-ghwt-drum-sensitivity
http://kotaku.com/5072183/gh-world-tour-drum-tuner-is-pc-app
And naturally, after kotaku has it . . . Gamespot, Ign, 1up, etc. have it. 😉
Awesome work, Jake. Most helpful article I’ve read in months. 🙂
Thanks…this will come in handy if I do need to use this when I get the game
I’m glad to see how quickly they got this fix out
sorry jake?… got hookup to set drums and it worked fine. only yellow symbol was cracked after a coulpe of times of play. bass peddle was messed up from day 1. 3 weeks later nothing works pad wise. joy stick and + , – buttons are all that works. NOW WHAT DO I DO?
There is now a version of the software that is compatable with Macintosh: http://redoctane.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/redoctane.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=22313
can we use this cable to play (with ps3 drum set) gh:world tour on pc??
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I have the drum set but no wii.can I still hook it up on my computer ?
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