The game controllers are definitely not MIDI, but I've heard a rumor that one of the upcoming games (dunno if it was Guitar Hero 4 or if it was Rock Band 2) has a MIDI *input* on the game drum kit so you could use a real drum kit if you happened to own one. Dunno if that's true or not.
Seems to be - looks like most of it is backwards compatible, but in one of the descriptions it appears that it will have a MIDI connector. Can't wait.
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MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi
MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock
MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock