It is true that I’ve learned to play keyboards over all those years, but still, guitar is my main instrument and suddenly I become a keyboard virtuoso with YouRock MIDI Guitar controller, playing all those crazy solo parts with no fuss, or recording various funky rhythms without spending extra time learning and practicing on a keyboard. For that reason my first experience with YouRock MIDI Guitar was a bit of a disaster, but after fixing all those issues and with a bit of practice I found the YouRock MIDI Guitar controller an unmissable tool. After all, I use the same strings on all of my guitars but still need few days to adapt from one to another that has strings a few millimeters offset above the neck. To tell the truth, you usually need few days to adapt to any new guitar that has different strings settings, or a totally different neck compared to your old one. Of course the sensitivity can be controlled with a combination of the TAP button and volume knob, but regardless, you will need few days to go through all the menus to set everything to your playing style and then a few days to adapt your playing style to YouRock MIDI Guitar. The virtual strings on the neck are a bit too sensitive, so you will need a week or two to adapt yourself to this playing technique. You can’t bend the strings (but you can go absolutely bonkers with the whammy bar that is connected to MIDI vibrato). YouRock MIDI Guitar controllers have some issues. Some playing techniques give better results, some worse, not to mention the price that can make the whole thing quite “exclusive”, being well outside the price range of the average guitar player.

If those models have less than 15 milliseconds latency this is still something you should add to your sound card latency, and some smaller errors are still an issue. MIDI guitars have made big progress since then, but recording MIDI data is still an adventure even with the more advanced Roland models. It was a Casio MIDI guitar and the latency and note errors made my MIDI recordings almost unusable. I bought my first MIDI guitar many years ago when these things were still more or less science fiction. You can chose between two options, to play the notes using only the neck, by tapping notes, or by using the neck in combination with six MIDI sensitive strings that are raised above the guitar body. YouRock MIDI guitar has a MIDI sensitive guitar neck with virtual strings that are not stretched above the neck but actually projected over the neck, two millimeters above the neck. The main advantage is that with a little practice you can input MIDI notes using your guitar playing skills, recording phrases or even chord progressions without any latency whilst minimizing “trashy” notes. It’s a MIDI controller that comes in the shape of a guitar.

A true life saver at a great price for all guitarists that need MIDI.īy Alex Arsov, Nov.2015 What It Is and What It’s Not Custom colored YRG-1000G2 with Radius neck A dream come true – a MIDI controller in a guitar body, with strings and frets and without latency.

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