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The Future Of Guitar From 1988
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2024
- I randomly got my hands on a Casio MG-500. Seemingly one of the only implementations of Midi in a guitar with 0% hazzle ever created! Such a beauty and it unlocks all kinds of interesting stuff that I never knew I wanted to think of doing before! Very straight forward and just plain fun.
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Awesome video Simon! Those Casio MG/ PG guitars are actually really well made. According to stuff I've read online, they were allegedly built for Casio by Ibanez, and branded as "Casio".
They were part of Casio's late 80's "Professional" line up, where you had the VZ series synths (VZ-1/ VZ-10M/ VZ-8M), and also the FZ samplers (FZ-1/ FZ-10M/ FZ-20M) that were sold in the same category as the MG/ PG guitars. IIRC, the VZ-8M was designed primarily to be paired with the MG/ PG guitars. Sadly, at the turn of the 90s Casio dropped out of the "Pro" market sector despite having produced some pretty awesome products. I suspect it was a combination of brand snobbery, as many elitists looked down on anything with a Casio badge on it, along with Casio's public image of making toy/ home keyboards leading to less than expected sales. Plus Casio was still very successful with their home keyboard products, so maybe they just focused on the market sector that gave them the most profits. Our loss, as imagine what Casio might have come up with had they continued developing products for their professional division.
There's also the more well known Casio DG guitars that were awesome too, though they were nowhere near the quality or had the abilities of the MG/ PG guitars. I have just purchased a DG-20 as I wanted to explore what a bonkers digital guitar with a Flash Gordon aesthetic could do in the modern age!
BTW, @ 4.15 - the little switch might be a coil tap for the humbucker, so you can switch it from single coil to dual coil (humbucker)?
That's so funny that you can plug it into the wall, like how I imagined all electric guitars worked when I was a kid.
Having all those MIDI tracks on at once is like instant Fantomas haha, wonderful avant-garde jazz sounds, I love it.
og wow, Fantômas, that's a like time i've heard that name
They were built in the Ibanez factory which is why it looks like an Ibanez Roadstar. I used to have one of them in black. The MIDI didn't work but it was a great guitar to play. The pickups were really good.
That jam with the midi controlled drums is sick! ❤
MIDI Captain Beefheart
My cat kept looking up from her nap like wtf is going on
I still own my Roland Gk-2a. I used to run midi synths along side my guitar rack interface to give a lot of depth to my live performances. I honestly knew very few people that actually did this, but I was always complimented for my setup and the quality of sound I had. 5 or so years ago I bought a guitar with the midi pickups designed into it, but I haven't dusted off the rest of the gear yet.
I've got the identical guitar only in black, but it had a battery leakage incident sometime in the '90s and I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. The main thing I remember was often having to play low stuff an octave up to help with tracking, and then just transposing back down in MIDI. Never had a tracking issue above the open A string. It worked amazingly for the time.
My grandpa had one of these he used to gig with. He had a midi box loaded with a bunch of pre-programmed backing tracks he kept track of in a binder, each with its own number and lead instrument he would play. I think he had a foot pedal too, like the kind you would use to play bass accompaniment I guess.
Such a great instrument, thanks for showing it Simon, I wish I had one for sure.
Northeastern Lesbianic Jazz. It's early in the birth of the genre but I think it's going to be a wild ride. Kind of like L.A. in 1970's/80's.
Love that piece of music at the end. Very evocative of something, I don't know what.
A few years ago I bought a Roland Gr-33 of Ebay for a few hundred dollars, installed the pickup on an old tele copy. It's pretty nice to play if the pickup is set right. Works pretty much just like the Casio in this video.
Recently I played through a modern guitar synth though. You just plug any guitar into it, then it figures out what notes you are playing, even full chords!
Which synth is this? I'm desperately looking for a proper guitar to midi synth/controller.
@@theothertonydutch It was a Boss synth. They have different models in different price ranges and capabilities.
so cool!
I feel like Simon has this migration away from RUclips every now and then, very much like a magpie in winter. He goes away and comes back refreshed. There’s no ‘burn out’ to worry about because he makes his videos in his own time. The money isn’t everything and a lot more RUclipsrs could learn a lot from him, they may even be happier in the long run. Thanks for being you Simon.
I had one with a built-in cassette player recorder loved it wish I could get it back
You should also check out the Casio EG-5, which has a built in Speaker, Distortion and Tape-Recorder!
The second person who taught me Jazz (who was also a Spanish teacher where I went to high school) owned an Ibanez model (H-S-H configuration) branded by Casio. I had first heard him playing that guitar plugged into one of his own synthesizers in the pit of a school play in the neighboring middle school auditorium, and I was always curious about how it worked. It was great hearing him play it up close in the high school Jazz club,
Rad! I only knew of the dg-20. I've really been enjoying running my guitar through the "midi maker" patch on the organelle and then into my computer for the same result.
When I was a kid, my friend's dad sold music instruments. I remember him demoing this thing to us, same color and everything 😂
I have seen the casio dg 20 synth guitar but not this one before. Neat.
New vid yessss
I have one, love it. I have 6 total non-guitars, but the MG is the best for me because it truly is a decent real guitar, whereas all the others are more of a gimmick.
Stop looking at this paper. ! :) ! You made my day 3 times already today with 3 videos only and I knew the second video when i subcribed that the third would made ma laugh again. such an inspiring channel and your pedals ! thanks. :)
MIDI guitars never really took off like the companies wanted them to. The midi instruments and effects didn’t sound great because of the hardware limitations back in the 80’s and early 90’s and the associated exorbitant cost. There were some artists who took advantage of the possibilities of the technology and were able to create some amazing sound scapes with them. If you combine them with a decent synth or midi sound card they are actually pretty cool. I have a modern midi pickup system called the Fishman Triple Play. It’s a midi pickup you can mount on any guitar and it gives you the full range of midi possibilities. You can use it to apply effects, transcribe music digitally in real time, trigger a full range of orchestral sounds, create loops or play pre recorded musical phrases or sound clips. I use it with Guitar Pro to transcribe music when I’m songwriting so I don’t forget something later on. It will even pickup bends and slides, hammer ons and pull offs. An invaluable tool as a song writer. And unlike other midi guitar systems which are incredibly expensive, you can pick one up pretty cheap if you shop around. I bought mine at a Black Friday sale for $250 Australian. If you’ve never tried a midi guitar you should give it a go.
What a wonderfully wacky piece of history
The track reminds me of Trentemoller or Royksopp :)
Nothing boring on this channel! How???
So ahead of it’s time, no way could you have done this when it came out 👍👍
Using equipment experimentally is the only thing I wanna hear.
hell yea brother
I've got a Casio PG-380 (this guitars older sibling) they can sound really accurate if the capacitors are in good condition. Great for cool spacy stuff too! these guitars are also built off ibanez and Fujigen guitars so play like nice japanese guitars
I was curious where they were made… so Ibanez or Fujigen built the guitars? I’d love one!!!
we have butt loads of casio guitars in australia but none are digital or midi at all..
I have this same one, I really love it even as a nice japanese strat, but unfortunately my MIDI is no longer working.
One day, capacitors just started falling off of the board...it was like some bad dream where your teeth are crumbling.
It's been this way for several years now, and I'm just waiting for the day someone can help me to fix it.
Damn that sounds awful! If its just the caps then it should be easy enough with a reference photo. If I go inside I will take one for sure.
I have one of these! It’s great fun, though the pitch tracking is a little slow on the lower strings so they work best with pads.
Oh, and the little switch switches the big pickup between single coil and humbucker modes.
Can you program the knobs to control midi devices like a digitech whammy? It would be cool to use it with mGB on a gameboy.
Very cool. Plug it into the Miku pedal
The track at the end reminds me so much of the Flaming Lips
Damn, it looks brand new!
always a step ahead ....grande!
I had a black one of these a long time ago. Never had a chance to try the midi functions. It was stolen from me.😢
always wanted one of these!!! so sick
My guitar teacher had this guitar. It confused me then and it's still kinda confusing. It's cool seeing it again after 30 years.
Look up the Fishman Triple Play. It bluetooths to your computer, and the tracking and latency are excellent.
I've been using it for a lot of years.
I LOVE my MG510 Strat I got in 1990. I put Dimarzios in it and it is a great playing guitar made by Ibanez. The MIDI finally died but the guitar is great.
"You dont know what you wanna do, you just know you like doing it"😅😂
that guitar is sick 🔥👍
Casio keyboard, Casio pc keyb.Casio watches, Casio cash Tills, Casio guitar -never knew - chorus fx would b good in full
Ty so much magpie and friend. I've been searching for some guitar innovation for a week or so. So sick of anyone playing traditionally
Yes. I've played a casio midi guitar, the more blade runner looking one. It sounded like a rubber ukelele
I dig it! 😎🎸
Roland made a bunch of great looking synth-guitars. I am still hoping to find a cheap one that the midi-parts are wrecked in so people don't get mad when I turn it into a regular guitar
Capacitors always go bad in them
Add talkbox to the madness
Anyone compare one of these to the new Jamstik midi guitar?
"never had a standard midi controller" yeah... i know
You're talking about plugging a 9V battery to it. So I assume you don't have the original battery compartement. A 9V battery is to weak for the guitar. Originally there was a holder for 6 AA batteries.
I thought it was him playing along with his m8 how much was these ?
Dope fucking track 13:01
A very strong Frank Zappa vibe on this one.
Welp. I was gonna buy a bass because ezbass and my keyboard wasnt cutting it. But this seems wayyyy cooler. What the fuck is this lol. This is awesome
Does it come in lefty?
> "guitar-looking guitar"
> holding a strat
checks out
Im a guitarist and the fact that this is so unusual makes me sad, tough I guess you can use a software controlled by guitar sounds
at a certain point you guys just started making sungazer music
hylics ost type intro
Как всегда круто😂
Wow... please make sure you don't poke your eyes out with the way those strings are put on those tuners. You should maybe redo that asap.
Sounds like frank zappa 😅😅😅❤
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp: I Advance Masked and Bewitched. Check them out, guy.
Meow
Too many knobs, too confusing for my smooth brain. but nice, but many knobs. too many knobs.
Buuut it is really just one knob 😅 bunch of switches though
ce n'est pas une guitare