FailBand

Sup /prog/,

I tried fretbuzz the other day and it blows hard.  I've decided to make my own program that allows you to play midi music via guitar hero/rock band controllers (guitars and drums).  I'm looking for opinions from you guys in how to implement this.

I started off looking up how to pull this off in Java, but am contemplating possibly using C#.  I have worked with Java much longer so I am more familiar with it.  After some research, I came across the JInput library to detect input from game controllers and glanced at some midi libraries that have pre-set instruments.

The instruments plug in via usb (rock band guitar and drum kit) and I have gotten it to work with the red and green fret buttons using JInput, but nothing more than that.  What would be better/easier to use: C# or Java?  I eventually would like to have a GUI where you can select instruments and the like, possibly adding functionality for usb microphone voice modulation.

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Use whichever you're more familiar with; both languages are mature enough to have a wide variety of libraries (for input, MIDI and GUIs). Choice in language makes very little difference, especially when they're so similar.

Personally, I'd do it in C or Python.