This is a program I created about a year ago, which takes input from a USB Xbox 360 Guitar Hero or Rock Band guitar controller*, and plays various samples at various pitches based on your button presses and strumming.
It's quite feature intensive for a program of it's scope. Once I got the basic sound manipulation in, new features seemed to appear of their own volition within the code.
There are other projects which aim to do this same thing, notably FretBuzz, used by The Guitar Zeroes, which is slightly more powerful and versatile. However, my aim with this was to make it simple to set up and use. You literally just plug in a controller, run the program, and start mashing buttons.
There are a couple features which I'm not sure are mentioned in the help file, most importantly, you can place your own sound samples in the \Samples\ folder, and edit voices.ini to load those into the program. Simply record a note of whatever you want, playing Middle C, and you're good to go, it will generate the rest of the notes on startup.
Here are some YouTube clips, the first runs through the features of the program, the second is just goofing around with some various voices.
* Technically any USB controller will work, but since you can't remap the buttons in Guitar Anarchist, the majority are not very useful. I've only tested it with the 360 Guitar Hero X-Plorer and the 360 Rock Band Stratocaster, but other USB guitar controllers might work.
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