Project Idea

My project idea is to create an interactive guitar sampler using Max/Msp and a Xbox Guitar Hero controller. I plan to program a series of combinations using the controllers, five coloured buttons and the strummer. With each combination of buttons a different sound file will play that can be used to create their own samples. I hope to use the controllers other buttons to activate different guitar based effects over the samples such as wah-wah, distortion, chorus etc. This is the first time I have used Max so I need to get to grips with it before getting too ambitious. The first step is to get Max to pickup the different buttons of the controller so I can begin to program different combinations.