guitar as a midi controller

[BassTooth]

Check this You Rock Guitar out. I'mma get one of these when it comes out on Feb 10 this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSaKhNsUhQo

how much for that? looks like a fun audio toy.

also, i sorta always wanted one of these http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... NTID=24770

[yur2die4]

Supposedly under 180$.

I own the yamaha, and this YouRockGuitar seems like a much better deal overall. Plus the strings seems a tad more friendly.

If it can be bus-powered through USB, it is a 100% win over the yamaha. Plus it will probably be somewhat popular so more software/programming might be written by various users for it.

There is also a Casio MIDI toy guitar that i've seen before. Uses some kind of strings or something, I don't recall.

[chelemasty]

Supposedly under 180$.
If it can be bus-powered through USB, it is a 100% win over the yamaha. Plus it will probably be somewhat popular so more software/programming might be written by various users for it.

Yes, it can be powered by USB 2.0. ^_^ Just felt like adding it.

[chelemasty]

Check this You Rock Guitar out. I'mma get one of these when it comes out on Feb 10 this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSaKhNsUhQo

how much for that? looks like a fun audio toy.

also, i sorta always wanted one of these http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... NTID=24770

LOL. Yeah it looks like a toy, but um, just think of it as the most portable, on point, and powerful MIDI-guitar as of now. I was about to buy a Yamaha EZAG too, and thank God, I saw this and waited for this to come out. The EZAG has no whammy bar, the frets uses buttons not strings. In YouRockGuitar, the frets uses a touch-sensitive engraved-like strings. Which is cool I think, because you don't really need to press hard. You can slide easily too. uses USB, or can plug it too an amp, use your headphone. It's more than you think it is. Oh and if you hate plastic, just wait for a bit, coz they're going to release a wooden-body version. But I'll get the plastic one first, coz i can't wait anymore...LOL

[chelemasty]

Today's cost for a MIDI implant are about 549 EUROS (Roland GR-20 + GK3 Pick Up) and you are not 100% sure of the result.
By using this 'gamelike' controller you will spend less than half and be sure it works, or so it seems...

Plus 1 Million...LOL Many people still don't get the possibility of it. Sure it looks like a toy for some. But same goes for my Oxygen 49 and Axiom 25, it doesn't look like a grand piano...LOL My APC40 doesn't look like a DJM-800 or a Xone 4D but can do what I want them to do... ^_^ And geez, it's just a controller.

[pilvi]

Here is a really neat example of a guitar as midi controller. This demonstration is with Reaper, but I'm going to try this with Live when I get home. As you probably know, any midi note can be assigned to any control in a Live project so I'm thinking the possibilities are endless as long as you can get the technique working in Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5IVj_x6UUQ

[Kenix]

Without being a Max/MSP expert: I am pretty sure there must be ways to assign a midi-value to certain notes/use your guitar as a MIDI controller if you were to code an own patch in Max. It's actually a cool idea which I might look into. Since you can basically connect anything to Max it should be doable (or so my imagination thinks).

[buzby]

check out this guy

there is a guitar in his shop which he has crafted and sends out midi signals as well as plays like a guitar

http://sonusmagus.com/

https://www.facebook.com/sonusmagus/