I was in Disk Replay with my son today and saw this hanging up. I didn't know much about it, but I suspected that is worked with midi, so I bought it for $40. They have a 48 hour return policy, so I figured I would either return it or be out $40 if it didn't work. I brought it home and tested it. All the strings are sensing correctly and all the fret buttons are working. The current version of Guitar Pro 8. allows Tab to be input, in step mode. Guitar Pro expects the MIDI to be all 6 channels, this way it assigns the notes to the correct string. It works great for that. What I just tried for my test, was use my Daw for sound, to verify the part I was playing, then play it into Guitar Pro. This worked great. Since it imports in step mode, you will have to fix the timing afterward. If you are inputting 1/8 notes and it is supposed to be 1/4 you could play two notes , as place holders and clean it up later. I loved your video, it motivated me to find uses for this.
as a person who’s been actually playing rock band 3 with this thing - for my first experience playing actual guitar it works really well! unfortunately mine is suffering from extreme crosstalk, whenever i pluck a string the strings around it typically trigger too, so i haven’t been able to use it well as a midi device. playing through the guitar trainer in-game has been a heck of a lot of fun (if a bit tedious) but really the biggest issue for me about the design itself is that the strings are super cramped. by the hard difficulty they expect you to do barre chords, and even though it tells you what to do in the trainer, the strings are way too close together to play comfortably for me. but it has convinced me to try picking up actual guitar - to the point where im actually considering getting the version they sold of this that’s an actual full-sized stringed strat.
@@davfel1999 MG2 doesn’t have any more latency than any other midi controller. True, ghost notes are less of an issue with the Rock Band controller but it also looks and feels like a toy rather than a serious instrument.
@@micah_noel wait. Latency in mg2 is made by soundcard. I remember i had better tracking on mg1 than 2. I have many midi controller, casio dg20, suzuki unisynth, yamaha, axon ax100, roland gi10 gr09 had gr33 and other instruments. The rockband controlloer is the best abd the most economic.
@@micah_noel "MG2 doesn’t have any more latency than any other midi controller." Not true. Cannot be true. It is physically impossible for MG2 to not have more latency than a MIDI controller. Sorry. You don't know how MG2 works, obviously.
Just splitting stuff into different channels means you can have true polyphony to a degree no keyboard can offer (you could however make use of multiple keyboards or takes but as a music creation device it offers a different approach); I have my YouRock, love that device ...Cost me the same as the Mustang and it was unopened. It also has midi splitting (two options for that and multiple for single channel), alternate tunings ... etc; on top of that you have a wammy bar that gives you bends, and you can hammer/pull off (you can switch between hammer and slide for this effect), volume control, and it has 22 frets... The YouRock is a very interesting tool. Its string sensors leave a lot to be desired (v1 first firmware, and no, can't update it). If you get a Gen 2, the Wammy can do octaves, and you can calibrate just about everything on that thing. I had a bit of an issue with my hands (tendonitis flare up) and during that time... I could play the YouRock! :) Thankfully I'm back and can play anything I want, but yeah that's a cool thing to have. That said, I'd like to try out a Mustang. It must be a lot of fun and it's always fun to have more than one option, plus I've heard some people hacked it and enabled pitch and yaw sensors and remapped the buttons - that sounds like a powerful instrument. As for the Jammy, too few frets so really not worth the expense to have less than a guitar at that point Id use JamOrigin instead and use the high a 8 string that's on its way here or a nylon guitar. You could also go for some fishman; if you're doing midi you want more than 15 frets, I mean, really If you don't expect any of them to work as a guitar but rather as a device that allows some of your guitar skill to transfer over to midi, all of them are great (including the Yammy :P) Great video!
Thank you so much for this video!!! This is a really good build quality and cheap midi controller, I wanted to buy Jamstik, but by your recommendation I found a new in the box guitar for 40$, it works great with Garageband, and it can even do bends - it has an accelerometer, there is a midi manual for this thing on the web. But it needs a really good midi to USB interface. A cheap one from Ali Express didn't work at all, , so I bought UM One by Roland - it works like a dream. This guitar is very good for training, I actually use it to play from standard notation and not from tabs, in tapping mode no need to bother with strings at all. Thanks a lot!!!
I still have mine for the PS3 and videos on my channel showing both the exact moment I got the Completionist rank plus a more in-depth explanation of how it happened. But I haven't touched that MIDI device since August 2020 because I don't know what to do if a string breaks.
picked up one of these a few months back. its super fun and i love it, but i am having an issue. i am trying to use this controller to control hardware synthesizers and each string has its own corresponding midi channel. when i plug it directly into MIDI input on the back of my synth, i am only able to control the synth with one string at a time. IE, the high E string is MIDI channel 1. therefore, i can only play notes on that one particular string. if i switch to MIDI channel 2 on my synth, it switches to the B string and so on. is this making any sense? the issue is that i am unable to play notes on my synthesizers using all six strings at once. do you know of any workarounds with this? i've been looking into MIDI merger/routing devices, but i can't seem to find any that specialize in converting multiple MIDI channels into one. this is kind of an obscure controller too, so trying to get a straight answer online has been difficult. if you know of any potential solutions, please let me know! great video btw 🙂
I've never tried to use it with a hardware synth. I used it within REAPER only, which has an omni channel mode for midi inputs, as well as plug-ins which can combine multiple midi channels. I don't know if such a thing exists in hardware form, but that would be what I'd look for. Good luck!
I have the same problem. The only synth I have that I can play with this guitar is the Microfreak. As for the routing solutions, I found a post with a guy recommending a MIDI router, so far I only know of the MIDI Solutions Router on Amazon, and even then I haven't seen a demo of it. I'd bite the bullet and get one but I'm broke and live in the boonies.
@@GRANTwow Any weird setups in Reaper to get it to work? I just enabled it in the midi menu in the preferences, created a track, made the input my midi device, and turned on the monitor option.
I was in Disk Replay with my son today and saw this hanging up. I didn't know much about it, but I suspected that is worked with midi, so I bought it for $40.
They have a 48 hour return policy, so I figured I would either return it or be out $40 if it didn't work.
I brought it home and tested it. All the strings are sensing correctly and all the fret buttons are working.
The current version of Guitar Pro 8. allows Tab to be input, in step mode.
Guitar Pro expects the MIDI to be all 6 channels, this way it assigns the notes to the correct string.
It works great for that.
What I just tried for my test, was use my Daw for sound, to verify the part I was playing, then play it into Guitar Pro.
This worked great. Since it imports in step mode, you will have to fix the timing afterward. If you are inputting 1/8 notes and it is supposed to be 1/4 you could play two notes , as place holders and clean it up later.
I loved your video, it motivated me to find uses for this.
as a person who’s been actually playing rock band 3 with this thing - for my first experience playing actual guitar it works really well! unfortunately mine is suffering from extreme crosstalk, whenever i pluck a string the strings around it typically trigger too, so i haven’t been able to use it well as a midi device. playing through the guitar trainer in-game has been a heck of a lot of fun (if a bit tedious) but really the biggest issue for me about the design itself is that the strings are super cramped. by the hard difficulty they expect you to do barre chords, and even though it tells you what to do in the trainer, the strings are way too close together to play comfortably for me. but it has convinced me to try picking up actual guitar - to the point where im actually considering getting the version they sold of this that’s an actual full-sized stringed strat.
I recommend MG2. It’s software that let’s you use your real guitar, so you’ll get your 24 frets, among many other cool features.
Yes but mg2 will have latency or ghost notes / triggers etc. This is a midi instrument.
@@davfel1999 MG2 doesn’t have any more latency than any other midi controller. True, ghost notes are less of an issue with the Rock Band controller but it also looks and feels like a toy rather than a serious instrument.
@@micah_noel wait. Latency in mg2 is made by soundcard. I remember i had better tracking on mg1 than 2. I have many midi controller, casio dg20, suzuki unisynth, yamaha, axon ax100, roland gi10 gr09 had gr33 and other instruments. The rockband controlloer is the best abd the most economic.
150? i could get a pro jag for 60. plus you get to play rock band 3 pro guitar.
@@micah_noel "MG2 doesn’t have any more latency than any other midi controller."
Not true. Cannot be true. It is physically impossible for MG2 to not have more latency than a MIDI controller.
Sorry. You don't know how MG2 works, obviously.
Just splitting stuff into different channels means you can have true polyphony to a degree no keyboard can offer (you could however make use of multiple keyboards or takes but as a music creation device it offers a different approach);
I have my YouRock, love that device ...Cost me the same as the Mustang and it was unopened.
It also has midi splitting (two options for that and multiple for single channel), alternate tunings ... etc; on top of that you have a wammy bar that gives you bends, and you can hammer/pull off (you can switch between hammer and slide for this effect), volume control, and it has 22 frets... The YouRock is a very interesting tool. Its string sensors leave a lot to be desired (v1 first firmware, and no, can't update it). If you get a Gen 2, the Wammy can do octaves, and you can calibrate just about everything on that thing.
I had a bit of an issue with my hands (tendonitis flare up) and during that time... I could play the YouRock! :)
Thankfully I'm back and can play anything I want, but yeah that's a cool thing to have.
That said, I'd like to try out a Mustang. It must be a lot of fun and it's always fun to have more than one option, plus I've heard some people hacked it and enabled pitch and yaw sensors and remapped the buttons - that sounds like a powerful instrument. As for the Jammy, too few frets so really not worth the expense to have less than a guitar at that point Id use JamOrigin instead and use the high a 8 string that's on its way here or a nylon guitar. You could also go for some fishman; if you're doing midi you want more than 15 frets, I mean, really
If you don't expect any of them to work as a guitar but rather as a device that allows some of your guitar skill to transfer over to midi, all of them are great (including the Yammy :P)
Great video!
Excellent review! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!! 🙌
Welcome!
Thank you so much for this video!!!
This is a really good build quality and cheap midi controller, I wanted to buy Jamstik, but by your recommendation I found a new in the box guitar for 40$, it works great with Garageband, and it can even do bends - it has an accelerometer, there is a midi manual for this thing on the web.
But it needs a really good midi to USB interface. A cheap one from Ali Express didn't work at all, , so I bought UM One by Roland - it works like a dream.
This guitar is very good for training, I actually use it to play from standard notation and not from tabs, in tapping mode no need to bother with strings at all.
Thanks a lot!!!
I still have mine for the PS3 and videos on my channel showing both the exact moment I got the Completionist rank plus a more in-depth explanation of how it happened.
But I haven't touched that MIDI device since August 2020 because I don't know what to do if a string breaks.
I have the controller, and a midi interface that shows up in my daw, but for some reason the controller won't work! Any advice would be appreciated!
having the same issue
this is awesome
How about you buy a Jammy and then do an A/B comparison?
Having had several rechargeable batteries fail and being a pain to replace the standard batteries seem like a point for the wii guitar over the jammy
What program are you using?
They’ve gone up in price quite a bit in a few years
picked up one of these a few months back. its super fun and i love it, but i am having an issue.
i am trying to use this controller to control hardware synthesizers and each string has its own corresponding midi channel. when i plug it directly into MIDI input on the back of my synth, i am only able to control the synth with one string at a time. IE, the high E string is MIDI channel 1. therefore, i can only play notes on that one particular string. if i switch to MIDI channel 2 on my synth, it switches to the B string and so on. is this making any sense? the issue is that i am unable to play notes on my synthesizers using all six strings at once. do you know of any workarounds with this? i've been looking into MIDI merger/routing devices, but i can't seem to find any that specialize in converting multiple MIDI channels into one. this is kind of an obscure controller too, so trying to get a straight answer online has been difficult. if you know of any potential solutions, please let me know! great video btw 🙂
I've never tried to use it with a hardware synth. I used it within REAPER only, which has an omni channel mode for midi inputs, as well as plug-ins which can combine multiple midi channels. I don't know if such a thing exists in hardware form, but that would be what I'd look for. Good luck!
I have the same problem. The only synth I have that I can play with this guitar is the Microfreak. As for the routing solutions, I found a post with a guy recommending a MIDI router, so far I only know of the MIDI Solutions Router on Amazon, and even then I haven't seen a demo of it. I'd bite the bullet and get one but I'm broke and live in the boonies.
Nice content!
Did you ever do a mod for the sustain?
Never got around to it. Maybe one day 😶🌫️
What midi interface did you use for this? I'm having issues getting this to work in reaper.
I had it plugged in via a 5 pin midi cable to the midi port of my behringer umc404hd
Maybe I'll buy a better midi interface. The Fore USB to midi cable may be the issue.
@@GRANTwow Any weird setups in Reaper to get it to work? I just enabled it in the midi menu in the preferences, created a track, made the input my midi device, and turned on the monitor option.
That was from dragon quest mf hell yeah
I got one
The only thing is wrong with this instrument are the strings they are too tight