Drum Machine is a Windows application that allows you to use your Rock Band drum kit as a real electronic drums. Drum Machine uses the Xbox 360 USB drum set controller as input into the program and plays customizable .WAV samples associated with each of the four drum pads and kick pedal. The software was developed by Toronto-based game developer Andrew Rudson as a side-project initially developed in only 5 days, and is available as a free download from andrewrudson.com. You can play, record, and save your drumming to a file. The software has been very well-received, because it allows for free-form drumming using the relatively inexpensive Rock Band drum controller; something the Rock Band video game does not support. You will need to 1) download and install the latest Xbox 360 Windows drivers from Microsoft, and 2) make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed. Users are encouraged to make a donation to support the project.
