The negative feedback getting millions of views is EXACTLY what they want. You couldn't pay for that kind of reach if the reviews were positive - no one would be watching this is there wasn't the drama around it. I'm glad you are taking their money though.
This exactly, even the other videos before and the meetings it def was for “face” to look like they cared but companies like this historically aren’t and act innocent when confronted as a tactic but just keep right in doing it. Product Scammers. Negative attention gets more eyes. 🤦♂️ my god plz stop Aeroband
Couldn't agree more. I don't get the bewilderment either. No promo is bad promo. This promo is golden for them. On top of that, you've made an entertaining video...which is what they also hoped for. They're getting all they want and people are likely still buying the product.
(I really wish people would finally stop saying - or rather believing - things like "no promo is bad promo". Bad promo is *always* bad. Yes, it might unfortunately give your product *some* attention and your company *some* business, but you will completely ruin your reputation in the process.)
@@Case_ It really isn't. Aero is proving that. That's why people say it. Sometimes, the old platitudes really are accurate. I get what you're saying but they're clearly just trying to hit quickly and vanish quick. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the owner of Aero likely does a thousand different things - all of them trash...LOL!!
On Amazon, it states 429$. A cheap guitar + midi keyboard + midi usb audio interface can cost more or less the same, and it would be way better than that piece of decoration in a karaoke that is gonna end up in a landfill.
Well, I bought a used USB MIDI controller with 61 keys a few years ago. Was only € 20 and came with the USB cable. This would be all you need if you wanted to input notes with a keyboard. If you want to use guitar it's a bit more complicated. I heard good things about this guitar MIDI software. If you want to go for hardware you would need to put a hex pickup on your guitar and get something like a Roland GR/BOSS SY/Axon AX or the Fishman Triple Play.
At that price point it's better off to buy a midi controller rather than a guitar shaped midi. If you want a real guitar that can also be a midi controller go for Jamstik. Sure it's $999, but it's a fully functional electric guitar with a midi controller.
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 No. Just no. Midi over guitar is extremely tedious. You will run into problems with chords and playing anything faster than 60bpm. Most of the jamstik reviews are sponsored. They won't compare it to a normal midi keyboard.
This thing really sounds like a toy my kids would play around with for 20 minutes on Christmas morning…then pack it away in the back of their closet waiting to get rid of it at the next garage sale! Makes no sense. Great honest review.
This is what you get when you have people who aren't musicians develop an "instrument" for musicians. They know nothing about their targeted audience so they please nobody. Years ago I bought a Fishman TriplePlay guitar/midi pickup (larger version) and it works amazing. Put it on any real guitar and you send midi and play any synth/samples you want. Chords, leads, pads, bass... The Fishman is about $430 which is almost the same price as this Aeroband thing but the Fishman actually works great on a real guitar.
I am the proud owner of 2 YRG-1000's which i use exclusively as a guitar midi controller. The tracking is great and the latency is almost non existent. They have a whammy bar for bends, a "slide" funtion and a "tap" function that makes the fretboard touch-sensitive allowing you to play 2 handed on the fretboard. and all for less than 200EUR. If this Aeroband midi guitar had these functions (which im pretty sure they dont) i would actually buy it.
Same here - an YRG1000 and an YRG1000 Gen2. Great controllers, albeit a bit weak on velocity. The "Joystick" maps directly to VCF parameters - Plug'n'Play with most Synths. Sadly, discontinued.
MIDI Guitar 3 is in Beta, but it works well based on the YT demos. It works with any real guitar's regular 1/4 inch audio output. There is no need for a hex pickup. It is MPE capable. So it can map almost any parameter to any controller (switch, pedal, breath, etc.). MPE makes it almost plug and play with any MPE capable synth and / or sampler, hardware or software. And of course it will work with any MIDI mode 4 (Omni Off, Mono On) synths from the past. You can also use it with any target which doesn't have either MPE or Mode 4 capability as long as you don't do individual string bending in a chord. So if you don't bend notes on a piano sound, for example, it will track wonderfully. It is not flawless. But it does a better job of tracking without ghost notes than my Fishman Triple Play which was my go to standard for the last seven years. So if you want a studio tool that lets you play any instrument on a guitar, I'd check it out.
This is honestly the funniest Beef ive seen so far just because they do not learn anything over and over and over like just do SOMETHING with his Suggestions Anything
I love my Jamstick Studio. Both as a midi guitar and as a regular standalone guitar. Of course tracking is not perfect on midi, but you can always clean it up on your daw if you playing simple melodies. Don't expect it to track flying sweeps and complex chords changing rapidly because it won't. No midi guitar will (as of 2024). Jamstick is 1000x better than this one you showed though. They used to have a possibly crappy one too (Jamstick 7), supposed to be for training. But ignoring that one, both the Jamstick Studio and Jamstick Classic are real, legit guitars that also do midi. You should do a review on one of them!
I just love the unhinged brutal honesty in your videos...that's the best demonstration of how in today's short attention span one can easily watch 45 min video without really doing any skipping :D
from an electronics engineer stance I can say it's so easy to fix, they're using off the shelf parts to do a custom job, the neck needs a total rework along with new controller code, just in the time in watching this I've worked it out, so why can't they?
Wym the neck needs a rework. You mean the silicone pressure sensors? I'm an electronic technician and i been thinking about this problem but it just returns that it wold be better and cheaper to just pick individual string signals and send them for proccesing ethier with a micro controller or a small dsp
Another interesting option is Jam Origin´s Midi Guitar 2 (hopefully, soon 3). It is a software which turns the guitar into a MIDI controller, similar to the Fishman unit, with different limitations. However, you can use it with ANY guitar.
Just the music in the unboxing gave me a clue what was I signing for...the saga continued and of course, it's not better 🤣 this was somehow painful to watch...you're a trooper Henning
Looks like a reincarnation of the Casio DG series from the 80's. I have a couple. Pat Metheney recorded with it, one of the first digital guitars, now considered a "holy grail" for collectors.
Pauly, I could not post on your latest video, but I have to tell you Brother... I am 99.8% positive many of your viewers stand behind you on your reviews for being such honest and no bs ... dont change to the status Quo just to fit in do not ever change your style on your video's !! we need to take a stand against the corporate bs they try to sell us .. than you so much for your Honest reviews!!!
as a guitar training tool I would never, but I would love something like a midi guitar, conected to a virtual guitar vst, like shredagge or one of those, bind the mute part of it to the palm mute key, and use it like some sort of, DIGITAL GUITAR I would mostly play deathcore breakdowns or something, so it would be very fun
i love how you really give it a go haha i would have thrown that out even if i was being paid to play it 😂 sucks how they are trying to get one over on us consumers when as many other comments have said weve had midi guitar solutions that are more affordable AND function a lot better than this for ages... and i can tell trying to play it makes you want to just play it on something that actually works like a keyboard, i dont think i would have given it as much of a shot as you did, great review henning!!
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Im curious. does an instrument like this, a thing that functions as a midi controller actually exists? Something that would work more or less like a normal midi keyboard you'd connect to a daw. Something that exists in the shape of a guitar and allows for the expressive playing unique to guitar like string bends and slides, but translates that into midi input and automation.
I have a Yamaha G10 from the late-80s and afaik it's still one of the best midi guitars made. I know there have been lots of attempts since but I think one of the most reliable these days is something like the Fishman TriplePlay pickup that you attach to an existing guitar. I think Roland still makes a similar system too.
I think this is a compliment to your honest, influencer status. People just want it because you talk about it - good or bad. Cheers to you Henning, I always enjoy your videos and approach.
Thank you, Henning, for this GREAT review! Because of your diligent work here, I now know beyond the faintest shadow of doubt that I must stay as far away from AeroBand's guitars as possible but seriously consider purchasing a Fishman Triple Play. ¡Muchos gracias! Vielen Dank! Thank you so much!!!
It's almost like you're acting as their marketing/R&D department. They build a thing, send it to you to review, you trash it, then they over-literally take your feedback onboard, build a new thing, send it to you... and the cycle repeats. After another 10-12 cycles of this, they could come up with a pretty good instrument. Brilliant review, love it
Hi, I think that the strumming triggers on any midi guitar give an unnatural feeling when using piano or synth sounds. I have had the old casio and the yourock guitar, the latter had the tap mode. For me it is the best way to use a midi guitar because it is more similar to the articulate form of a keyboard and with the added bonus of being able to use both hands in independent melodic lines. There is a guitar that has that, the gotar 3 from starr labs but unfortunately it is difficult to acquire in my country.
We need honest reviews like this, so thanks for that. The unboxing vid music pretty much said this wasn't going to be a favourable one! These people are barking mad!
I had something that looked very much like this: six short stringies/sensors, and a gel-fingerboard-with-frets-and-strings, it was actually just a weird MIDI-controller, the sounds were your own sounds from your synth modules. It was dirt cheap and worked rather well. NOT A LEARNING TOOL! Just a 'guitar-shaped-MIDI-controller' much like a keyboard MIDI controller but for guitarists.
Like your unboxing background music 😂 The p.o.s.reminds me of the "Charlie Lab Digitar" in combination with "Döpfer Ribbon" in the 80s/90s. This thing is the best, when it's in your hands. Cause it makes so many musicians laugh. But I think its a very expensive joke. You can get a 1A Harley Benton Guitar for this money. Cool videos! Keep on !
Part of the thing about learning guitar is your fingers hurting!!! ...It does hurt but it's a good hurt and helps you build calluses which are essential for longevity... I think this could be a great tool but it needs a lot of work....I like the string setup it looks, quite well done....I would prefer more than just lines on the fretboard...something with dimension....not sure the mic input at all needed...the midi idea definitely a way to go and it could be great .... maybe lights or markers on the fretboard to help with fretboard visualization/shapes ....it needs big time investment in the app and the sound ... harmonics and overtones going to be a problem and need room for the ever popular hybrid picking so muting essential somehow...you need somehow to register pressure on the strings with a sensor at the bridge etc ...Midi is an amazing tool and can sound great these days if done well....if a keyboard/cheap midi controller can output CC then so can a guitar..why is it outputting as grand piano midi it sounds terrible and an easy thing to fix?? why is the dynamic output or velocity limited ... goes to 127!! improve the app....make a better sound...include teaching tools etc and this could be a pretty useful tool.
Sxioo.... out of respect for your art..... I forced myself to watch this all the way through. Even though everything in my being cried 'no stop, I can't take any more' It was painful.... but clearly not as painful as it was for you to review it! The only saving grace was that this review made me laugh several times. So I think this... um... device... has great potential in the comedy arena. I wonder if maybe actual guitar players would pay to sit and watch you review it again, probs work better if all sat together in a pub somewhere after a guitar show, drinking beer. I think that would be a very fun thing to do. Anyhow... well done you for trying hard to keep a straight face .. and ... think of the money 💰. Outstanding review. In so many awkward ways that I'm still smiling.
I like the idea of people improving on the interface that the Madcatz Mustang controller was based on. I found it easier to play accurately than other midi guitars that have more realistic strings or even the weird rubber frets on the Artiphon Instrument 1. The plastic buttons on the fretboard made it much more like a keyboard than a guitar, which was a good thing. If a new midi guitar expands and improves on this interface then I get a little excited. The one thing that Artiphon got right was the sleak and modern design that doesn’t mimic the overused aesthetic of a super strat. Unfortunately it was a little too heavy and not reliable with it’s accuracy of note triggering. I would love to see something more like a midi “shamisen”. Two or three courses of “strings” would allow for less clutter and therefore less mistakes. I could play simple chords and leads and trigger samples accurately using a device that is flexible as far as incorporating into my own custom aesthetic. I probably have very unique needs and expectations that aren’t for the mass market, which renders this whole conversation pointless. But I’ll always have an ear to the ground when it comes to new midi guitars, hoping that someone will have the same idea.
Love the idea of this AND would buy IF I could select different tunings and capo. I play a Godin SA today and can handle the "unused strings" issue. Thanks for the demo. Would have loved more playing and how to interface this to my amp.
It's one thing for a company to make a guitar that can be difficult to play because of sharp frets or cheap hardware or massive neck dive or whatever. Those are usually solvable, if frustrating to deal with. It's another thing altogether to make a guitar that even experienced players say "yeah, I can't play this." Not because it needs to be repaired or upgraded, but because it is so fundamentally different to play that it's a whole different instrument.
Exactly. This is not an "instrument" for guitar players and no one else would be interested. There is no way someone can learn how to play guitar through this junk (there would be more chances with rubber bands on a plank). For EUR 80, I would consider it as a toy - kind of laughing with my pals having an hour of fun but nothing more - but this price is just ridiculous...
I’m glad I watched this. I was only looking for a practice guitar to take with me on vacations. This is just not what I need for proper practice. The only benefit is being able to remove the neck and is below a certain price point. I don’t need a toy, I need a guitar.
I'd maybe pick one up at a flea market just to see what glitchy sonic chaos could be created with it. But it's a little to big to keep around just for the laughs. Circuit bending a kids keyboard or turning a greeting card into a contact mic is probably more fun, way cheaper and easier to stove away in your box of projects.
The main problem with this products is that real instruments are so cheap. Many or most people don't know that, and as a Christmas gift for some youngster, 3-400 isn't seen as very expensive among lots of people these days. Also, it connects to a computer, which most people have, as opposed to a guitar amp, which most people don't have. It will sell based on people's ignoranse. This is a good and very honest channel.
Oh no, I was almost onboard to throw away my 7-string dreams just because this has a detune option and I like to record but I've been watching your reviews for years and I think I trust your word on this. I was just planning on using this as a MIDI controller and it has the looks if you ever wanted to play it live with a laptop for some sweet sweet sounds but I think I'm better off with other options. Hopefully they're hard at work on another version but if no one working on it is a musician, they need to collab with a reputable company and get this thing to take off because I can see so much potential but it's a shame the execution fell short.
The aeroband people had to have dug up the thing from the 80s that was THE EXACT SAME THING. I can't find the model because every time you search for guitar-shaped synth you get SynthAxe, and guitar-shaped keyboard yields Keytars for miles. But in the 80s, we had this little plastic Yamaha (edit: maybe Casio) thing that had exactly the same setup as the aeroband guitar - steel strings just over the picking area, with a molded rubber fretboard that picked up your fretted positions as 'keys' that were then sounded by plucking the little string section.
I'm just at the part of the unboxing thinking. They could totally make a bridge accessory with the optic stuff they use to capture the strings vibration and sell it as a MIDI interface to add to a regular electric.
I still have the YRG (You Rock Guitar Gen 2)......that company just caved in.....and I use that as a midi guitar but only works best on slow to very slow tempo....but the good part of it was that i could change the tuning and make custom open tuning presets and materialize that onto other vst instruments......so all in all it was a value for money midi toy
get a you rock guitar used for less than 50€ if you want something similar, with midi. you also get a whammy bar that works as a pitch bender. it's been around for more than a decade, you can also find some stuff with tom qualye using it if you look it up on youtube to make up your mind.
Ignore it... for sure... either you have to shit all over it which isn't what they want or need, or you have to lie. Maybe you'd like it, who knows... but I wouldn't do it.
@@EytschPi42 thanks for the advice. Haha... I did send them a reply with no commitments just out of curiosity to see what they would give me as their guidelines.
Some time in the very late '90s I spent $100 for a set that had a pickup that fed a black box with a DSP engine inside that spit out MIDI. You mounted the pickup under your electric guitar strings and the DSP figured out what you were doing with each string and pumped it out the MIDI port. I don't recall exactly how well it worked, but it worked much better than this. I bet there are even better such products available today, maybe even cheaper than $100.
If you want your regular guitar to midi you can just use the reapitch plugin in your DAW. It works great -- I can turn my guitar into a full synth, for free!
Man the Roland GR33 is still the best tracking midi synth setup there is. You can snipe those for $200 easy. Put it on a cheap but fully playable guitar (there are thousands of these nowdays) and you've got a pretty impressive instrument. Thing is about midi guitar, you have to slide into the dynamics of the instrument you're imitating or inventing. If you can't approximate with your fingers, the dynamics of a saxaphone or trombone, then you're not going to sound like a saxaphone or trombone. Those two are easier than you might think, whereas piano (another stringed friggin instrument btw) never feels quite right -- to me anyway. Trumpet? French Horn? Friggin Oboe? Those are all a blast. For actual midi input into a software environment like Komplete Ultimate, I went with a Fishman Triple Play. You're talking just a little more money here but not by a lot, since you're putting it on the same cheap but good guitar. But I'm not telling anyone to get a Triple Play and Komplete Ultimate. I mean if you do that and disappear into your studio for two months, missing weddings and entire major holidays and shit... don't blame me... I warned you. But not the GR55. It's a presently overpriced but unenthusiastic upgrade from the GR33.
On the GR33, don't mess with any of the guitar patches. The bass guitar patches are nice af, including the acoustic standup bass (again, learn the dynamics). The guitar patches on this guitar synthesizer though, are the worst crap ever invented, not counting the subject of this review.
I have a Yamaha G10 from the 80s and it has a modwheel controller right by the picking area which makes it awesome for playing strings sounds like violin/cello/etc
As a bassist (no chords) I could actually find a use for this. Id be playing single notes. I had a Misa Tri-Bass and that was great but cost £1,000 and broke after a few years. A friend of mine as a proper midi bass but it cost £3,000. So for 10% of the price, I would actually consider one of these as an easy way to play electronic bass parts live. Would prefer if it only had 4 strings though.
I’d be interested in it as a backup to my Rock Band Pro guitar, which I use as a MIDI controller. But it would have to be as good and as inexpensive. The sad thing is that they could just pay attention to what Robkoo is doing and emulate them. Most importantly, Robkoo hires musicians.
There was a toy like that in the 80s or early 90s that I had. It was a fun toy you could make actual music on, I’m a pro guitar player now and it had an impact on my life, I learned sweet child o mine on it in fact. It wasn’t $400 though, holy moly that’s hilarious!
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The negative feedback getting millions of views is EXACTLY what they want.
You couldn't pay for that kind of reach if the reviews were positive - no one would be watching this is there wasn't the drama around it.
I'm glad you are taking their money though.
Love you Colin!
This exactly, even the other videos before and the meetings it def was for “face” to look like they cared but companies like this historically aren’t and act innocent when confronted as a tactic but just keep right in doing it. Product Scammers. Negative attention gets more eyes. 🤦♂️ my god plz stop Aeroband
Couldn't agree more. I don't get the bewilderment either. No promo is bad promo. This promo is golden for them. On top of that, you've made an entertaining video...which is what they also hoped for. They're getting all they want and people are likely still buying the product.
(I really wish people would finally stop saying - or rather believing - things like "no promo is bad promo". Bad promo is *always* bad. Yes, it might unfortunately give your product *some* attention and your company *some* business, but you will completely ruin your reputation in the process.)
@@Case_ It really isn't. Aero is proving that. That's why people say it. Sometimes, the old platitudes really are accurate. I get what you're saying but they're clearly just trying to hit quickly and vanish quick. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the owner of Aero likely does a thousand different things - all of them trash...LOL!!
On Amazon, it states 429$. A cheap guitar + midi keyboard + midi usb audio interface can cost more or less the same, and it would be way better than that piece of decoration in a karaoke that is gonna end up in a landfill.
Hmm.
…shill? Kidding. Not a bad point.
Check Jam Origin Midi Guitar😏
Well, I bought a used USB MIDI controller with 61 keys a few years ago. Was only € 20 and came with the USB cable. This would be all you need if you wanted to input notes with a keyboard.
If you want to use guitar it's a bit more complicated. I heard good things about this guitar MIDI software. If you want to go for hardware you would need to put a hex pickup on your guitar and get something like a Roland GR/BOSS SY/Axon AX or the Fishman Triple Play.
At that price point it's better off to buy a midi controller rather than a guitar shaped midi. If you want a real guitar that can also be a midi controller go for Jamstik. Sure it's $999, but it's a fully functional electric guitar with a midi controller.
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 No. Just no.
Midi over guitar is extremely tedious. You will run into problems with chords and playing anything faster than 60bpm.
Most of the jamstik reviews are sponsored. They won't compare it to a normal midi keyboard.
I have no interest in karaoke or midi guitars. I am here for the story 😁
YES! This 😂
Me too!
Your unboxing "music" made me cry laughing! Love an honest review. Cheers man!
The best part of the video if you later understand why it sounds like that 😂😂
I have never even heard a profetional pianist roll chords like that....
Honestly, leaving the click track in that was complete genius. Love it! haha
The Aeroband Saga is finally complete. Great video, I absolutely love your brutal honesty. Keep up the fantastic work
This thing really sounds like a toy my kids would play around with for 20 minutes on Christmas morning…then pack it away in the back of their closet waiting to get rid of it at the next garage sale! Makes no sense. Great honest review.
Ahh - the sequel we have all been waiting for :D
The background music while unpacking made my day 😂 Just great.
Reminds me of that car that homer simpson designed, lots of people follow dumb ideas right until the end
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Greetings from Madrid, Henning.
Keep up the good and honest work.
I have to admit i love your rants and your sincerity. 😊😂
the music while unboxing 😂😂😂 your humor is unmatched !
It’s literally what I play with it later in the video
@@EytschPi42We KNOW! 🤣🤣🤣
Please send this to Glenn and get a fearless review. Yall both need to be in the smashing
This is what you get when you have people who aren't musicians develop an "instrument" for musicians. They know nothing about their targeted audience so they please nobody.
Years ago I bought a Fishman TriplePlay guitar/midi pickup (larger version) and it works amazing. Put it on any real guitar and you send midi and play any synth/samples you want. Chords, leads, pads, bass...
The Fishman is about $430 which is almost the same price as this Aeroband thing but the Fishman actually works great on a real guitar.
Leo Fender and Ned Steinberger....
@@entropy1454 I think the difference between them and the aeroband people is: they listened to what musicians where telling them.
@@Mullewarp I totally agree. I just couldn't help myself from pointing out the irony.
Leo Fender wasn't a musician 😂😂😂
I'm not a guitarist, I have only seen videos about this after it came up in my feed. I love your honesty and for that, I have subscribed.
I am the proud owner of 2 YRG-1000's which i use exclusively as a guitar midi controller. The tracking is great and the latency is almost non existent. They have a whammy bar for bends, a "slide" funtion and a "tap" function that makes the fretboard touch-sensitive allowing you to play 2 handed on the fretboard. and all for less than 200EUR. If this Aeroband midi guitar had these functions (which im pretty sure they dont) i would actually buy it.
The 'only' problem with it dude is it's not being produced anymore
How would you bend a note on this device?
Same here - an YRG1000 and an YRG1000 Gen2. Great controllers, albeit a bit weak on velocity. The "Joystick" maps directly to VCF parameters - Plug'n'Play with most Synths. Sadly, discontinued.
@@bjornlangoren3002 Whammy bar.
@@faglork2007 A whammy bar is not at all the same.
MIDI Guitar 3 is in Beta, but it works well based on the YT demos. It works with any real guitar's regular 1/4 inch audio output. There is no need for a hex pickup. It is MPE capable. So it can map almost any parameter to any controller (switch, pedal, breath, etc.). MPE makes it almost plug and play with any MPE capable synth and / or sampler, hardware or software. And of course it will work with any MIDI mode 4 (Omni Off, Mono On) synths from the past.
You can also use it with any target which doesn't have either MPE or Mode 4 capability as long as you don't do individual string bending in a chord. So if you don't bend notes on a piano sound, for example, it will track wonderfully.
It is not flawless. But it does a better job of tracking without ghost notes than my Fishman Triple Play which was my go to standard for the last seven years. So if you want a studio tool that lets you play any instrument on a guitar, I'd check it out.
yup, im using version 2 and it works great, better than my roland gk and gr32
The unboxing music tells you exactly which way this review is gonna go 😂
Love that you recorded the unboxing music using the thing as a piano 😂
This is honestly the funniest Beef ive seen so far just because they do not learn anything over and over and over like just do SOMETHING with his Suggestions Anything
Aeroband, this is the seventh week in a row that you presentes a midi guitar
I love my Jamstick Studio. Both as a midi guitar and as a regular standalone guitar. Of course tracking is not perfect on midi, but you can always clean it up on your daw if you playing simple melodies. Don't expect it to track flying sweeps and complex chords changing rapidly because it won't. No midi guitar will (as of 2024).
Jamstick is 1000x better than this one you showed though. They used to have a possibly crappy one too (Jamstick 7), supposed to be for training. But ignoring that one, both the Jamstick Studio and Jamstick Classic are real, legit guitars that also do midi. You should do a review on one of them!
Honestly - this is now my favourite YT channel. Never change - it’s that combination of intelligence & integrity that keep us coming back.
Can it be used as a canoe paddle?😳
Probably NOT! 😂
@@TheDarkXn😂😂
Oh gosh! The track used for the unboxing! Genius! 😎🤣
It blows me away how far these cats got into this process without thinking about asking an actual guitar player their thoughts first.
Hahaha seriously?! I've recently rewatched your previous masterpiece and they did it again lol
Hey, it's Ostro!
I just love the unhinged brutal honesty in your videos...that's the best demonstration of how in today's short attention span one can easily watch 45 min video without really doing any skipping :D
from an electronics engineer stance I can say it's so easy to fix, they're using off the shelf parts to do a custom job, the neck needs a total rework along with new controller code, just in the time in watching this I've worked it out, so why can't they?
Send them an email. If they can pay someone to trash them they might pay you to help them 😂🤷🏻♂️
Wym the neck needs a rework. You mean the silicone pressure sensors?
I'm an electronic technician and i been thinking about this problem but it just returns that it wold be better and cheaper to just pick individual string signals and send them for proccesing ethier with a micro controller or a small dsp
@rcninjastudio would you put the sensors that measure how hard you pick close to the nut for better muting?
Another interesting option is Jam Origin´s Midi Guitar 2 (hopefully, soon 3). It is a software which turns the guitar into a MIDI controller, similar to the Fishman unit, with different limitations. However, you can use it with ANY guitar.
Does it chug? 😂
This is a job for Ola
give him some Ministry style guitar stab samples and let him find out! \m/
Der creepy Keyboardsound mit ALLEN falschen Tönen beim Auspacken... Henning. Du bist ein Meister! :D
Just the music in the unboxing gave me a clue what was I signing for...the saga continued and of course, it's not better 🤣 this was somehow painful to watch...you're a trooper Henning
Looks like a reincarnation of the Casio DG series from the 80's. I have a couple. Pat Metheney recorded with it, one of the first digital guitars, now considered a "holy grail" for collectors.
Pauly, I could not post on your latest video, but I have to tell you Brother... I am 99.8% positive many of your viewers stand behind you on your reviews for being such honest and no bs ... dont change to the status Quo just to fit in do not ever change your style on your video's !! we need to take a stand against the corporate bs they try to sell us .. than you so much for your Honest reviews!!!
Can't wait until the 5. Part.
I've never watched Netflix, but I think it's something similar to this.
The Fishman thing looks like a fun and usable device.
Sold me on it.
Was the unboxing music created using the wonderful Aeroband MIDI contraption, by any chance?
It’s literally the the song I am trying to record later in the video
as a guitar training tool I would never, but
I would love something like a midi guitar, conected to a virtual guitar vst, like shredagge or one of those, bind the mute part of it to the palm mute key, and use it like some sort of, DIGITAL GUITAR
I would mostly play deathcore breakdowns or something, so it would be very fun
i love how you really give it a go haha i would have thrown that out even if i was being paid to play it 😂 sucks how they are trying to get one over on us consumers when as many other comments have said weve had midi guitar solutions that are more affordable AND function a lot better than this for ages... and i can tell trying to play it makes you want to just play it on something that actually works like a keyboard, i dont think i would have given it as much of a shot as you did, great review henning!!
Is it possible to use a capo over the strings? Because sometimes we need the smaller distance between frets.
Yes, it’s possible.
_Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change..._
-a wise man
Michael Mando, and it was an improvised line.
@@Traumglanz yeah.... sure makes sense to attribute a line that has been around for longer than the actor you're attributing it to is even alive
I thought it was albert eistein who said it.
I was kinda surprized when i found out its not the actual def
@@Traumglanz was einstein you rube
People called The Wright Brothers insane for trying to fly. Now you'll think about them flying ✈ the next time somebody references this insanity quote.❤
Im curious. does an instrument like this, a thing that functions as a midi controller actually exists? Something that would work more or less like a normal midi keyboard you'd connect to a daw. Something that exists in the shape of a guitar and allows for the expressive playing unique to guitar like string bends and slides, but translates that into midi input and automation.
I have a Yamaha G10 from the late-80s and afaik it's still one of the best midi guitars made. I know there have been lots of attempts since but I think one of the most reliable these days is something like the Fishman TriplePlay pickup that you attach to an existing guitar. I think Roland still makes a similar system too.
@@HowieStephens Thank you! That Fishman Tripleplay looks like so much fun to mess around with
The part where you record in a DAW is some of the funniest 'guitar' review footage I've ever seen. I played it a few times and laughed myself silly.
I think this is a compliment to your honest, influencer status. People just want it because you talk about it - good or bad. Cheers to you Henning, I always enjoy your videos and approach.
37:06 if you’re a guitarist, actually the touchscreen is fastest and you can do it anywhere on the iPad and Dorico.
Thank you for another honest review. Maybe next year they will release a uke version of it seems like the next silly thing for them to do.
I saw the ad for this toy... I use the Fishman which works for me. Do you have experience with the jamstik guitar?
Never used a jamstick
Thank you, Henning, for this GREAT review! Because of your diligent work here, I now know beyond the faintest shadow of doubt that I must stay as far away from AeroBand's guitars as possible but seriously consider purchasing a Fishman Triple Play. ¡Muchos gracias! Vielen Dank! Thank you so much!!!
“Now cheaper and as useless as it was before”. Best follow up review ever. My wife and I were rolling at the dinner table watching this. Love you man!
Have you tried putting it through a garden shredder see if it make a better sound that way?
It's almost like you're acting as their marketing/R&D department. They build a thing, send it to you to review, you trash it, then they over-literally take your feedback onboard, build a new thing, send it to you... and the cycle repeats. After another 10-12 cycles of this, they could come up with a pretty good instrument.
Brilliant review, love it
Is all that popping/cracking through the video (during the play examples) from the guitar output?
no... computer issues
Hi, I think that the strumming triggers on any midi guitar give an unnatural feeling when using piano or synth sounds. I have had the old casio and the yourock guitar, the latter had the tap mode. For me it is the best way to use a midi guitar because it is more similar to the articulate form of a keyboard and with the added bonus of being able to use both hands in independent melodic lines. There is a guitar that has that, the gotar 3 from starr labs but unfortunately it is difficult to acquire in my country.
Why does your track during the unboxing have the metronome click track left in?
same track that comes later
A fascinating ongoing story. I love and respect what you're doing. Seems like a guitar with piano characteristics. See what happens down the road.
Yamaha made something called the ez-ag that looks pretty similar. I was wondering if you could give that a try and tell us how you feel about it
would u please try the nux trident and give ur opinion about that. how dose it compare to podgo
The saga continues
We need honest reviews like this, so thanks for that. The unboxing vid music pretty much said this wasn't going to be a favourable one! These people are barking mad!
11:39 Oooffff those are some jazzy chords there. Very.. Artistic and expressive
I had something that looked very much like this: six short stringies/sensors, and a gel-fingerboard-with-frets-and-strings, it was actually just a weird MIDI-controller, the sounds were your own sounds from your synth modules. It was dirt cheap and worked rather well. NOT A LEARNING TOOL! Just a 'guitar-shaped-MIDI-controller' much like a keyboard MIDI controller but for guitarists.
Like your unboxing background music 😂
The p.o.s.reminds me of the "Charlie Lab Digitar" in combination with "Döpfer Ribbon" in the 80s/90s.
This thing is the best, when it's in your hands.
Cause it makes so many musicians laugh.
But I think its a very expensive joke.
You can get a 1A Harley Benton Guitar for this money.
Cool videos! Keep on !
Part of the thing about learning guitar is your fingers hurting!!! ...It does hurt but it's a good hurt and helps you build calluses which are essential for longevity...
I think this could be a great tool but it needs a lot of work....I like the string setup it looks, quite well done....I would prefer more than just lines on the fretboard...something with dimension....not sure the mic input at all needed...the midi idea definitely a way to go and it could be great .... maybe lights or markers on the fretboard to help with fretboard visualization/shapes ....it needs big time investment in the app and the sound ... harmonics and overtones going to be a problem and need room for the ever popular hybrid picking so muting essential somehow...you need somehow to register pressure on the strings with a sensor at the bridge etc ...Midi is an amazing tool and can sound great these days if done well....if a keyboard/cheap midi controller can output CC then so can a guitar..why is it outputting as grand piano midi it sounds terrible and an easy thing to fix?? why is the dynamic output or velocity limited ... goes to 127!!
improve the app....make a better sound...include teaching tools etc and this could be a pretty useful tool.
Sxioo.... out of respect for your art..... I forced myself to watch this all the way through. Even though everything in my being cried 'no stop, I can't take any more'
It was painful.... but clearly not as painful as it was for you to review it!
The only saving grace was that this review made me laugh several times.
So I think this... um... device... has great potential in the comedy arena. I wonder if maybe actual guitar players would pay to sit and watch you review it again, probs work better if all sat together in a pub somewhere after a guitar show, drinking beer.
I think that would be a very fun thing to do. Anyhow... well done you for trying hard to keep a straight face .. and ... think of the money 💰. Outstanding review. In so many awkward ways that I'm still smiling.
Thank Rob, that means a lot!
I like the idea of people improving on the interface that the Madcatz Mustang controller was based on. I found it easier to play accurately than other midi guitars that have more realistic strings or even the weird rubber frets on the Artiphon Instrument 1. The plastic buttons on the fretboard made it much more like a keyboard than a guitar, which was a good thing. If a new midi guitar expands and improves on this interface then I get a little excited. The one thing that Artiphon got right was the sleak and modern design that doesn’t mimic the overused aesthetic of a super strat. Unfortunately it was a little too heavy and not reliable with it’s accuracy of note triggering. I would love to see something more like a midi “shamisen”. Two or three courses of “strings” would allow for less clutter and therefore less mistakes. I could play simple chords and leads and trigger samples accurately using a device that is flexible as far as incorporating into my own custom aesthetic. I probably have very unique needs and expectations that aren’t for the mass market, which renders this whole conversation pointless. But I’ll always have an ear to the ground when it comes to new midi guitars, hoping that someone will have the same idea.
Would love to see a review of the Fishman TriplePlay, and the JamStick.
Love the idea of this AND would buy IF I could select different tunings and capo. I play a Godin SA today and can handle the "unused strings" issue. Thanks for the demo. Would have loved more playing and how to interface this to my amp.
It’s purely midi…. Can’t work with your amp
Insane to come away from this vid wanting to buy this POS, but I guess it takes all sorts to make a world
How are the fret ends? Rolled? Does it have locking tuners? 😂.
It's one thing for a company to make a guitar that can be difficult to play because of sharp frets or cheap hardware or massive neck dive or whatever. Those are usually solvable, if frustrating to deal with. It's another thing altogether to make a guitar that even experienced players say "yeah, I can't play this." Not because it needs to be repaired or upgraded, but because it is so fundamentally different to play that it's a whole different instrument.
Exactly. This is not an "instrument" for guitar players and no one else would be interested. There is no way someone can learn how to play guitar through this junk (there would be more chances with rubber bands on a plank). For EUR 80, I would consider it as a toy - kind of laughing with my pals having an hour of fun but nothing more - but this price is just ridiculous...
I’m glad I watched this. I was only looking for a practice guitar to take with me on vacations. This is just not what I need for proper practice. The only benefit is being able to remove the neck and is below a certain price point. I don’t need a toy, I need a guitar.
11:40 - I love what you did here! It's as if the ride cymbal is out of tune. I've never felt this before!
Is the Mk 1 with the internal speaker still available or do I have to find it used on Reverb?
still available... I have one if you want one... cheap
@@EytschPi42 Autograph it and you have deal my friend.
It’s 2040, a video is posted on whatever replaced RUclips by then titled “ I finally found an Aeroband with the speaker!”😂 Guitarists!
Did you keep the $800 this time?
I charged them even more
Love your honesty ,Great video n I’m sure some people will still buy this hand- held Kazoo 🤘🎸
Does it Djent?
I'd maybe pick one up at a flea market just to see what glitchy sonic chaos could be created with it. But it's a little to big to keep around just for the laughs. Circuit bending a kids keyboard or turning a greeting card into a contact mic is probably more fun, way cheaper and easier to stove away in your box of projects.
The main problem with this products is that real instruments are so cheap. Many or most people don't know that, and as a Christmas gift for some youngster, 3-400 isn't seen as very expensive among lots of people these days. Also, it connects to a computer, which most people have, as opposed to a guitar amp, which most people don't have. It will sell based on people's ignoranse.
This is a good and very honest channel.
Great guitar! Can't wait to pick one up!
I'm Litterally crying at the music 11.20, so funny, great vid Henning!
Oh no, I was almost onboard to throw away my 7-string dreams just because this has a detune option and I like to record but I've been watching your reviews for years and I think I trust your word on this. I was just planning on using this as a MIDI controller and it has the looks if you ever wanted to play it live with a laptop for some sweet sweet sounds but I think I'm better off with other options.
Hopefully they're hard at work on another version but if no one working on it is a musician, they need to collab with a reputable company and get this thing to take off because I can see so much potential but it's a shame the execution fell short.
The aeroband people had to have dug up the thing from the 80s that was THE EXACT SAME THING. I can't find the model because every time you search for guitar-shaped synth you get SynthAxe, and guitar-shaped keyboard yields Keytars for miles. But in the 80s, we had this little plastic Yamaha (edit: maybe Casio) thing that had exactly the same setup as the aeroband guitar - steel strings just over the picking area, with a molded rubber fretboard that picked up your fretted positions as 'keys' that were then sounded by plucking the little string section.
The fact that they showed their faces at Namm
That unboxing music is a spiral into insanity. Bravo!
Been watching you randomly every time you pop up in my feed, but this wonderful roast made me sub as well.
The “ you rock guitar” did the same thing but was actually better.
Great job sir!
It's like that scene in Ted. "No one has ever had the balls to talk to me like that" 😂😂
I'm dying here - what is this unboxing music!? :-D
Amazing! Why on earth do they keep chucking money at you?! Kudos for keeping it together during the review.
I'm just at the part of the unboxing thinking. They could totally make a bridge accessory with the optic stuff they use to capture the strings vibration and sell it as a MIDI interface to add to a regular electric.
Scratch that. It's terrible nonetheless.
I still have the YRG (You Rock Guitar Gen 2)......that company just caved in.....and I use that as a midi guitar but only works best on slow to very slow tempo....but the good part of it was that i could change the tuning and make custom open tuning presets and materialize that onto other vst instruments......so all in all it was a value for money midi toy
get a you rock guitar used for less than 50€ if you want something similar, with midi. you also get a whammy bar that works as a pitch bender. it's been around for more than a decade, you can also find some stuff with tom qualye using it if you look it up on youtube to make up your mind.
Anyone who accuses this guy of being a "shill" obviously doesn't watch his videos. He is very honest about the products he reviews
Do they have an 8 string?
Haaaaa
I got the email this morning to review this “guitar”. Wondering if I should go for it and see how bad it is for myself, or just ignore it? 😅
Ignore it... for sure... either you have to shit all over it which isn't what they want or need, or you have to lie. Maybe you'd like it, who knows... but I wouldn't do it.
@@EytschPi42 thanks for the advice. Haha... I did send them a reply with no commitments just out of curiosity to see what they would give me as their guidelines.
Some time in the very late '90s I spent $100 for a set that had a pickup that fed a black box with a DSP engine inside that spit out MIDI. You mounted the pickup under your electric guitar strings and the DSP figured out what you were doing with each string and pumped it out the MIDI port.
I don't recall exactly how well it worked, but it worked much better than this. I bet there are even better such products available today, maybe even cheaper than $100.
If you want your regular guitar to midi you can just use the reapitch plugin in your DAW. It works great -- I can turn my guitar into a full synth, for free!
Is it fast enough for live?
Man the Roland GR33 is still the best tracking midi synth setup there is. You can snipe those for $200 easy. Put it on a cheap but fully playable guitar (there are thousands of these nowdays) and you've got a pretty impressive instrument. Thing is about midi guitar, you have to slide into the dynamics of the instrument you're imitating or inventing. If you can't approximate with your fingers, the dynamics of a saxaphone or trombone, then you're not going to sound like a saxaphone or trombone. Those two are easier than you might think, whereas piano (another stringed friggin instrument btw) never feels quite right -- to me anyway. Trumpet? French Horn? Friggin Oboe? Those are all a blast. For actual midi input into a software environment like Komplete Ultimate, I went with a Fishman Triple Play. You're talking just a little more money here but not by a lot, since you're putting it on the same cheap but good guitar. But I'm not telling anyone to get a Triple Play and Komplete Ultimate. I mean if you do that and disappear into your studio for two months, missing weddings and entire major holidays and shit... don't blame me... I warned you.
But not the GR55. It's a presently overpriced but unenthusiastic upgrade from the GR33.
On the GR33, don't mess with any of the guitar patches. The bass guitar patches are nice af, including the acoustic standup bass (again, learn the dynamics). The guitar patches on this guitar synthesizer though, are the worst crap ever invented, not counting the subject of this review.
I have a Yamaha G10 from the 80s and it has a modwheel controller right by the picking area which makes it awesome for playing strings sounds like violin/cello/etc
As a bassist (no chords) I could actually find a use for this. Id be playing single notes. I had a Misa Tri-Bass and that was great but cost £1,000 and broke after a few years. A friend of mine as a proper midi bass but it cost £3,000. So for 10% of the price, I would actually consider one of these as an easy way to play electronic bass parts live. Would prefer if it only had 4 strings though.
Oh that Fishman pickup seems pretty good. Might get one of those.
I’d be interested in it as a backup to my Rock Band Pro guitar, which I use as a MIDI controller. But it would have to be as good and as inexpensive. The sad thing is that they could just pay attention to what Robkoo is doing and emulate them. Most importantly, Robkoo hires musicians.
There was a toy like that in the 80s or early 90s that I had. It was a fun toy you could make actual music on, I’m a pro guitar player now and it had an impact on my life, I learned sweet child o mine on it in fact. It wasn’t $400 though, holy moly that’s hilarious!