The Wii has more than its fair share of rhythm games, but if you’re looking for something more along of the lines of freestyle drumming then we have just the thing for you. A group of students from the University of Potsdam in Germany have created a program which adapts the Wiimote and Nunchuk into a drum kit simulator.

It works by connecting the Wiimote to a Apple Mac via the Bluetooth module, and then transmits your motions into sound. It even uses the accelerometer to measure how hard you shake your virtual drumsticks, which is then reflected in the loudness or harshness of the sound. As you can see in the video, the delay between “bashing the drums” and their corresponding sound is virtually nil.

Best of all, you can download the programme and try it for yourself, absolutely free. It’s open source software that can be downloaded from SourceForge, with endless options for tweaking the MIDI settings to make your own custom sound effects. What are you waiting for? Make with the clicky and get some drum practice in.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, October 7th, 2007 at 4:19 pm by Bulent Yusuf
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