So, you want to play drums with a controller? Well, it's actually a pretty easy thing to do AND REALLY COOL! Sure it took me hours to find the programs, and scripts, etc., but it'll take you 15 minutes - as opposed to my hour and a half once I had all the software I needed. Hell, I liked it enough to create a guide!

Required:

Get AutoHotkey
Get JoyToKey
Game Controller

First download and install AutoHotkey.

After installing AutoHotkey, right click in any folder, go down to new, and select AutoHotkey Script and open up the file you just created.

Paste this script into the file and save it:

; q - upper left tom-tom drum
; e - upper right tom-tom drum
; a - snare drum
; d - lower right tom-tom drum

; h - hi-hat
; j - left cymbal
; k - right cymbal
; u - bass drum

;q = 470, 208 e = 570, 208
;a = 430, 322 d = 620, 310

;u = 520, 330
;h = 325, 275 j = 370, 160 k = 635, 135

SetMouseDelay, Delay [-1, Play]

q::MouseClick, Left, 470, 208
e::MouseClick, Left, 570, 208
a::MouseClick, Left, 430, 322
d::MouseClick, Left, 620, 310


h::MouseClick, Left, 325, 275
j::MouseClick, Left, 370, 160
k::MouseClick, Left, 635, 135
u::MouseClick, Left, 520, 330

Go ahead and test it out, by double-clicking on the script file and pressing some of these keys. Your mouse should be shooting around the screen. If you open the drum kit in Music Creator 6 Touch, you can now use your keyboard to play drums when the window is active.

Since these X, Y coordinates are based on the drum kit's window size in pixels, this should work for everybody (assuming it opens at the same resolution for everyone). If not, there is a simple solution. AutoIt3 Window Spy comes with AutoHotkey and all you'd need to do is find the coordinates yourself by opening up this program, hovering over the drum pads, and popping them over to this script.

Now when you want to use AutoHotkey to play the drums, all you have to do is double-click on this file and if you wish to edit which keys you use to trigger the drums, just change the letter next to "::MouseClick" to something else. "SetMouseDelay, Delay [-1, Play]"
is important because it tells the computer to have no delay between simulated mouse clicks. Be sure to use the ";" before writing any comments within a script so the program will ignore that line.

Next, download and install JoyToKey.

Once you open JoyToKey, fill in the keypresses where you'd like them on your controller. To do this, make sure your controller is connected and hit the buttons to figure out where to map the different drums. I use an Xbox 360 controller, but it is simple enough with any.

Below is my preferred setup since it gives you a lot of options to use the bass drum, as well as easy cymballing while keeping the easier to hit buttons for the main drums:

D-pad left: h
D-pad up: j
D-pad right: k
D-pad down: u

Button 1: d
Button 2: e
Button 3: a
Button 4: q

Button 5: u
Button 6: u


As you can see with this setup, there are 3 inputs for the bass drum. I use it this way so that I can access it easily, regardless of what other drums or cymbals I am also using.

Finally, all you need to do is open up Music Creator 6 Touch, turn on your gaming controller, run the AutoHotkey script we just made (double-click it once, it should go to the system tray), run JoyToKey and finally select the drum kit make sure it is the selected window.

Hit some buttons.

BAMSHAZAM! You're playing drums with a gaming controller.