Musical instruments one can use in the rhythm game genre of Fortnite Festival, the title’s flagship musical mode are the following.
However, excluding Guitar Hero and more apparent free PC alternatives like Clone Hero, Fortnite Festival is one of the best and most enjoyable rhythm games with guitar motifs.
This general flexibility also means you can play Fortnite Festival with your old guitar controller if you have one. It is fairly easy to connect the controller to the consoles; however, for a PC, more effort and third-party tools are needed.
How To Use A Guitar Controller On PC In Fortnite Festival?
First, plug your guitar controller via the USB port to the PC to allow its use with Fortnite Festival.
After that, download and install an external application, Xpadder or JoyToKey to help map key inputs to the buttons of your guitar controller.
After doing all of that, start Fortnite and fine tune your controls to match the guitar controller. Perform a few riffs in the Fortnite Festival to make sure the preparations are adequate.
Your guitar controller should be able to work after doing the above procedures as you have a real rhythm gaming experience in Fortnite.
How To Map Your Guitar Buttons?
While Fortnite will recognize your guitar as a controller, it will not work perfectly fine right from the get-go. But the guitar controller has buttons that are likely to conflict with the game’s controls; thus, they will have to be reprogrammed.
First, initiate Fortnite Festival and then without quitting the game, go to settings. Go to settings and click the Keyboard Controls tab and scrolling down, choose the Main Stage controls.
This shows which keys correspond to which buttons on a guitar controller for play on a game like Guitar Hero.
These keys are touched by default with D, F, J, K, and L keys but you can set it to any of the two which you find comfortable to use.
The second phase is to download a program called JoyToKey via the internet. By the help of this program you can define which keys on your keyboard or on a mouse will correspond with the button press of your controller.
Any button you press or move on the strum bar that the computer recognizes as your controller will be highlighted in yellow when JoyToKey is open and your controller is connected in.
First of all, move your cursor to the button that you’d like to turn on and press it by clicking twice with your mouse; then, press the key on your keyboard that corresponding to the Fortnite Festival controls.
Throughout, if you want to increase challenge, go through all of them, including the strum bar.
This way you can quickly test your setup if you start any program that let’s you text and hit buttons on your controller.
If you set up the options in JoyToKey successfully, you should now be able to view letters that are related to the initial keys that you assigned on strings.
How To Put Off The Controller Input
There’s one more important step to do before using your controller to play Fortnite Festival: ensure that the Controller input is turned off.
Disabling the controller input is achieved by going to the mouse and keyboard settings then enabling the Disable Controller Input option.
It is advised to disable the Controller Input so that it will prevent secondary actions which can hinder movement in the menus because JoyToKey improves the controller to act like an advanced keyboard.
It should be rather facile for you to strive through the menus and select the songs with the help of the keyboard and the mouse after completing this step.
Subsequently, depending on the situation, you may easily grab your guitar and start playing as soon as the music starts.
How To Use A Guitar Controller On Console?
As for consoles, the procedure varies, but more often it is quite straightforward. It really is simply this – can your console recognize the controller at all to REALLY matter?
Covers for Xbox and Play Station game pads are usually connected through USB cables, and in most cases, they are designed to be compatible with only the said systems.
Ideally, appropriate controllers should be used on the systems they are meant for such as going from the Xbox 360 to Xbox Series X or from the PS3 to a PS5. This will make thing easier.
Trying to play with a Wii controller from Guitar Hero with play station or X-box will not work because Wii controllers are only compatible with PCs or Wiis.
Although, an update made sometime in April 2024 enable Rock Band controllers to be much more compatible with dance central.
