Hasta La Gadget!

Most of us have dreamt of putting our Rock Band skills to use playing in a real concert for thousands of cheering fans, but have no talent for a real guitar or an actual drum set. If you, on the other hand, know how to play the guitar pretty well but the orange button on your Rock Band guitar controller is a little out of reach, the Midi Pro Adapter from Mad Catz will give you a way to plug in your actual instruments to your XBox 360 or PlayStation 3 and get your game on with a controller you’re more familiar with. 

For $40 retail, the Midi Pro Adapter will allow you to plug in your real instruments, have them recognized as controllers, and automatically map different actions to the directional pas or the controller buttons. You can tweak the settings manually if you want, or just start band practice with the default configuration and see where it goes.