Finally a cool and useful review from someone who can actually play that focuses on the stuff a musician can use and not the Guitar hero bullshit features and stuff.This little plastic box is a godsend for all of us guitarists who hate using keys but still want to make music with soft synths and vsts.Its not a guitar replacement, its a midi device shaped like a guitar.Its a useful tool rather than an abomination...like many guitarists think.
Music is good when it SOUNDS good, not when it is difficult, and not when there is a huge amount of understanding about a specific type of instrument involved in its creation. These two things can contribute to a piece's effectiveness, but it is learning the aesthetic itself that takes time and dedication, and a technically proficient performer does not necessarily make a good composer. They are separate disciplines within the same art form.
This is by far the best demonstration of the You Rock Guitar. It surely has helped me to make up my mind about buying one. Oh...ya I'm getting one alright!
@DanMummSolo thanks for the reply. Alright then, I'm getting this! I was thinking about remaking lost/unreleased soundtracks on Garage Band but I couldn't be bothered with learning keys, while a regular MIDI guitar costs a fortune. Seems ideal for my case...
excellent video. thanks for the demo - especially explaining the neck and how it feels. I think this is what I've been looking for. Really cool 2 hand technique you have - seems to fit this type of board well. I'm very much a left hand vibrato type player and will miss that I guess, but for composing and getting midi into DAWs it seems perfect.
Its great for guitarist that want to record syths or other virtual instruments but who do not have a proficient background in using a keyboard or the piano roll in the DAW. It allows guitarist to translate what they already know without having to learn how to play a midi keyboard.
@Countryman Gaia Warrior Just because the price is 200 dollars doesn't make his statement any more true that you would expect to pay $2-3000 accurate in the slightest. I have one of these, and I love it, but nobody in their right mind would ever even remotely think this is worth thousands of dollars.
@Niles Spaulding i have only found them online on musicians friend or guitar center, amazon, and ebay. this one hes playing was 175 dollars now most places only carry the new gen2 and they are 100 dollars more than the original
@deliciouscraneberry If you dont know about recording it might be kind of hard.. First you need a mic or an audio interface something to record your voice into the computer.. OR you could record it into a sampler if you own one. On the computer you would have to put it into a software sampler as well. Then you need to plug the midi cable into your audio interface (that is connected to the computer) or in the sampler if you are using a hardware sampler, and then the guitar plays whatever samples
I have one but hardly use it. You HAVE to learn to play it almost like a new instrument. Guitar pro doesnt recocgnize position playing. Its more of a gadget then. I went back to my regular guitar. Its ok for recording simple backing tracks on your mac. Possibilities aren't endless as you say. I wanna see you play a gig with this, would you? I would perhaps for exerimental music.
@xplicitpoetix "Because the YouRock guitar doesn't have normal strings, you can't do bends and vibratos as you normally would on a traditional guitar". I think it might be like some old controller I tried, the "strings" were just long plastic bumps along the fretboard. A Yamaha G10 (with real strings) is quite affordable these days although rare. Look for Dr. Ika's videos demonstrating its capability. Even the Casio DG-20 (with plastic strings) can get the expression of a guitar.
Great video Deuter rock and roll you just convinced me to purchase one of these the only difference is I'm going to play while I'm on fire but other than that
very tasty playing, btw. Sold me. Can't wait to play one over here in Thailand in our beach charity mini concerts. Think House of the rising sun organ part....
And also, there are loads of guitar players that make things flow that have no understanding of musical concepts at all. If you learned by ear (like a lot of guitarists have), you should have a good feel for the notes that sound correct without necessarily understanding why they sound good.
Sorry, I have to ask. What was that piece you played at 4:23? Or if it was improvised, what arpeggios did you use? I recognize the Cmaj at the beginning, but after that, I'm lost. I've watched it 30 times and I can't figure it out, but I love the way it sounds.
a sound engineer does, when you send your band or solist demo to a label.. and this is highly difficult, and that isnt all.. they have to know how to compose, like an orchestra... to compose everything.. and have to know all the instruments. and more.. learn
Cool stuff. So does this thing actually have a BASS sound or two in the presets? I saw a sample of the synth bass on their website (weak, it was), but I can't seem to find a list of all the presets on the web. I can only assume that it does.
This IS quite a jump forward in the MIDI realm ALBEIT it sure took it's time getting here. I still have all my 80's Casio stuff and i will always be a firm MIDI DIGI believer .I can see the action on this YRG is SMOKIN" but it still sounds not REAL . I just see it this way...i have not used my DIGI guitar for quite sometime and i don't see when i will ...i do like ODDITIES and this does qualify in that respect...I am IMPRESSED and the question remains DO I WANT(need) a YRG???it looks HANDY~
@luigiperso I agree, why can't others just go to another video instead of leaving such horrible or assinine comments as you certainly can't please everyone nor would you want to really.
@DanMummSolo Yeah :) BTW, did you use any extra hardware to get any of the sounds in your review (besides sampling other instruments), or was it all done using software?
I wouldn't buy this to emulate guitar sounds, I rather have regular instrument. But I want to try it with actual synths in place of keyboard and go creative from there on. Imitation of guitar sounds has never really worked on keyboards nor piano with gtr midi controllers. But if the latency here is near to zero it can open some really useful possibilities.
I know a decent amount of theory and if you think improving is just stumbling around until you get something good you're wrong. If you don't know any theory you won't know what to play next to keep it flowing. even if the person hasn't studied the theory to be able to verbalize it, it is still there or the music would just sound like a bunch of random notes. there is no musicianship in telling a computer to play pre-recorded sounds in a certain order.
would you mind sharing your sensitivity settings your using on your you rock guitar? i have this and realize potential but the way it triggers now is quite horrible. i have had quite a bit of trouble dialing in a setting between finger picking and regular picking
obviously, this guy's a good player, but I just bought one, today(6-21-15), and all of the presets are terrible. There's no clear instructions on how to use any of the things it's supposed to have. It doesn't even come with an owners manual. You have to download that. You also have to download a program (Control Panel App) that makes no sense at all, unlike the Fender Fuze, Zoom Edit&share, or the Digitech programs that are pretty easy to use. I'd really like to know what the hell Fret-Select means. All of these videos show some awesome players doing wonderful things, but MY YRG-1000 can't do any of it... ( out of the box ).
Peter Markellos - Hi Peter. Perhaps contacting us through our ticketing system and we can help you with the instrument set up. There are many parameters you can change for your particular playing style. Let us know through support and we are happy to assist you. We can describe Fet Select and how to implement it etc... look forward to hearing from you.
dubstep , for example, are a lot of instruments.. and you got to PLAY all of them. exactly.. you have to play the drums( and know how are the patterns of a 2 step battery, for examle) , you have to play sinthetizers, piano, and more.. and, mostly, this people are skilled in piano, cause they use synths, or VST ( virtual sinths) so, they have to put a MIDI KEYBOARD , to play.. or.. if you are guitar skilled, THIS TOY. in order to make al the mix sound´s good, they have to do the same that,,
@DanMummSolo how do you record your own voice using the You Rock Guitar? (I mean the "sample your own voice" thingy). I've been searching everywhere but still can't figure it out :(
yeah if people didn't buy that crap no one would make it. but it's the ability to play an instrument that is key, I mean where is the musicianship in making music like that? when bands play live they usually don't just play what is on the album they add more fills and maybe some solos make the song faster or slower things like that and you don't get that with a song made on a computer. you go to a rap concert and what do you see? it's just the rapper with the backing track of the album playing.
Looks like it doesn't have strings on the fretboard? That's the issue, I see it can track flawlessly, but with no proper strings = no expression = just a toy. Look at the Synthaxe and the Yamaha G10 both have full sets of strings all at the same gauge, the Synthaxe became an expressive instrument in the hands of Allan Holdsworth.
not really people can just pick up the program and do a guess and check until they get something they like with no knowledge of anything but how to press a button. that isn't to say a real composer couldn't use a computer program, but that the program makes it too simple and takes away from music. they don't know what it really is to dedicate yourself to an instrument to learn the ins and outs the different fills techniques or bass runs or about building chords and embellishing them.
Plus, you can't do per-note-vibrato, which is one of the great things of guitar. This is a keyboard, and for that, I'll much gladly get a keyboard over this thing. This thing misses the great elements from guitar.
i find it funny how ppl expect it to play like a real guitar. even the roland hexpickup has noticable latency. seems like a good midi controller with virtual instruments
dude what happens if you break a string??do they have little replacement strings or what??and also its not like a touch pad is it like its buttons or what?
@DanMummSolo Actually, I play guitar, and use a DAW with several VSTs and midi controllers. I'm certainly not at the level of technical ability that you've reached to be sure, and I guess that considering your position (as a paid endorsee), I can understand your response...it's just not for me.
putting its toy like look and sounds aside, this could be a good tool for notation, and for trigerring synths for non keyboard players - anyone using it for that?
because it is a shortcut if anything. you don't have to spend hours and hours practicing to improve your skill. there is no improvisation to it at all. they just make the track once with the software then it's just complete. I'm not against using a computer to get better at an instrument, I'm against the whole musical composition being electronic, that isn't creative nor talent.
I'm not saying every single person who has ever used a computer is talentless but that it allows people to be talentless and produce something. it has really just become the easy way out.
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Finally a cool and useful review from someone who can actually play that focuses on the stuff a musician can use and not the Guitar hero bullshit features and stuff.This little plastic box is a godsend for all of us guitarists who hate using keys but still want to make music with soft synths and vsts.Its not a guitar replacement, its a midi device shaped like a guitar.Its a useful tool rather than an abomination...like many guitarists think.
Music is good when it SOUNDS good, not when it is difficult, and not when there is a huge amount of understanding about a specific type of instrument involved in its creation. These two things can contribute to a piece's effectiveness, but it is learning the aesthetic itself that takes time and dedication, and a technically proficient performer does not necessarily make a good composer. They are separate disciplines within the same art form.
5:27 - "for something like this you'd expect to spend 2-3 thousand dollars" ..... really?
dont act like you've never spent $3,000 on a midi controller before
This is by far the best demonstration of the You Rock Guitar. It surely has helped me to make up my mind about buying one.
Oh...ya I'm getting one alright!
This is right up my alley since like you I produce music via a DAW and I have a midi paino but feel way more comfy with a guitar. Might have to invest
@DanMummSolo thanks for the reply. Alright then, I'm getting this! I was thinking about remaking lost/unreleased soundtracks on Garage Band but I couldn't be bothered with learning keys, while a regular MIDI guitar costs a fortune. Seems ideal for my case...
excellent video. thanks for the demo - especially explaining the neck and how it feels. I think this is what I've been looking for. Really cool 2 hand technique you have - seems to fit this type of board well. I'm very much a left hand vibrato type player and will miss that I guess, but for composing and getting midi into DAWs it seems perfect.
Best overview on YT. Thanks for taking the time!
Its great for guitarist that want to record syths or other virtual instruments but who do not have a proficient background in using a keyboard or the piano roll in the DAW. It allows guitarist to translate what they already know without having to learn how to play a midi keyboard.
Imagine the reactions from people when an entire band comes on to the stage armed with nothing but this! :D
@Bhargav
Sarma. Hahaha
Great demonstration! Thanks for posting!
Hopefully getting one this weekend!! GC has three in stock in my neck of the woods.
I love this for melodic playing and arpeggios. I like keyboard controllers for things like holding chords using pads or string vst
It’s in my wish list. Hopefully can get my hands on one of these in the near term.
Got to get one these - thanks for the superb demo!
"For something like this, you'd expect to spend 2 or 3 thousand dollars..."
LOL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE
@Countryman Gaia Warrior Just because the price is 200 dollars doesn't make his statement any more true that you would expect to pay $2-3000 accurate in the slightest. I have one of these, and I love it, but nobody in their right mind would ever even remotely think this is worth thousands of dollars.
@Niles Spaulding i have only found them online on musicians friend or guitar center, amazon, and ebay. this one hes playing was 175 dollars now most places only carry the new gen2 and they are 100 dollars more than the original
@deliciouscraneberry If you dont know about recording it might be kind of hard..
First you need a mic or an audio interface something to record your voice into the computer.. OR you could record it into a sampler if you own one. On the computer you would have to put it into a software sampler as well. Then you need to plug the midi cable into your audio interface (that is connected to the computer) or in the sampler if you are using a hardware sampler, and then the guitar plays whatever samples
I have one but hardly use it. You HAVE to learn to play it almost like a new instrument. Guitar pro doesnt recocgnize position playing. Its more of a gadget then. I went back to my regular guitar. Its ok for recording simple backing tracks on your mac. Possibilities aren't endless as you say. I wanna see you play a gig with this, would you? I would perhaps for exerimental music.
@xplicitpoetix "Because the YouRock guitar doesn't have normal strings, you can't do bends and vibratos as you normally would on a traditional guitar". I think it might be like some old controller I tried, the "strings" were just long plastic bumps along the fretboard. A Yamaha G10 (with real strings) is quite affordable these days although rare. Look for Dr. Ika's videos demonstrating its capability. Even the Casio DG-20 (with plastic strings) can get the expression of a guitar.
I loved the sampling voice part.
Great video Deuter rock and roll you just convinced me to purchase one of these the only difference is I'm going to play while I'm on fire but other than that
very tasty playing, btw. Sold me. Can't wait to play one over here in Thailand in our beach charity mini concerts. Think House of the rising sun organ part....
Great Review!!!
Cheers,
Kai
StudioX
such a killer guitar player
Cool review! That would be a great travel guitar.
Great review Dan..U sold me!
DUDE I WANT ONE!!!...sorry for the caps, I got excited lol.
Great review and demo! If anyone is intrested I have done a demo with the YourRock and iPad Garageband
Holy crap!! I need that guitar now!
in my country, a dealer has this model (still) in stock , they are $70 now... may be weird, but i like em (i am a terrible at keyborads)
the "You could even sample your voice" bit was awesome
Very cool...sounding great Dan :)
Is it velocity sensitive?
great review thx!
And also, there are loads of guitar players that make things flow that have no understanding of musical concepts at all. If you learned by ear (like a lot of guitarists have), you should have a good feel for the notes that sound correct without necessarily understanding why they sound good.
awesome video, thanks!
I'm guessing yes! it would be silly to only have a few normal tunings added to such a dynamic bit of hardware.
Great review! Loved the Toccata and Fugue at 2:28
And the drums... all I have to say is LOL!!!! Awesome :)
Sorry, I have to ask. What was that piece you played at 4:23? Or if it was improvised, what arpeggios did you use? I recognize the Cmaj at the beginning, but after that, I'm lost. I've watched it 30 times and I can't figure it out, but I love the way it sounds.
a sound engineer does, when you send your band or solist demo to a label.. and this is highly difficult, and that isnt all.. they have to know how to compose, like an orchestra... to compose everything.. and have to know all the instruments. and more.. learn
this midi guitar looks awesome.....
Great review. You convinced me! I'm going to the states tonight as it happens.....any idea where I would be able to pick one up from New Orleans??
good review
Very cool, especially for the price! Is it velocity sensitive with how hard you hammer on?
Cool, Thanks
Cool stuff. So does this thing actually have a BASS sound or two in the presets? I saw a sample of the synth bass on their website (weak, it was), but I can't seem to find a list of all the presets on the web. I can only assume that it does.
ur arpeggios r awesommme ! :D
This IS quite a jump forward in the MIDI realm ALBEIT it sure took it's time getting here.
I still have all my 80's Casio stuff and i will always be a firm MIDI DIGI believer .I can see the action on this YRG is SMOKIN" but it still sounds not REAL . I just see it this way...i have not used my DIGI guitar for quite sometime and i don't see when i will ...i do like ODDITIES and this does qualify in that respect...I am IMPRESSED and the question remains DO I WANT(need) a YRG???it looks HANDY~
You are Awesome!!!
I Love You❤❤❤❤
@luigiperso I agree, why can't others just go to another video instead of leaving such horrible or assinine comments as you certainly can't please everyone nor would you want to really.
Really great review of the YouRock (it helps when you are a very good guitarist to :-) lol)
Well done!
Batninja
im sold i will get this hope it work on windows and for fl look out us guitar player going midi lol
6:23 ZEF SIDE NINJA INTRO HELL YEAH
PS: I NEED THIS MIDI GUITAR
@DanMummSolo Yeah :)
BTW, did you use any extra hardware to get any of the sounds in your review (besides sampling other instruments), or was it all done using software?
I wouldn't buy this to emulate guitar sounds, I rather have regular instrument. But I want to try it with actual synths in place of keyboard and go creative from there on. Imitation of guitar sounds has never really worked on keyboards nor piano with gtr midi controllers. But if the latency here is near to zero it can open some really useful possibilities.
Nice demo and great playing, however the camera switching was a little over the top. :)
If I ever made a video game, I'd want to use that version of your song as the main theme.
You are awesome men! I want to buy this instrument, but there is a question in my head, can I have a 5 string bass sound with it please?
4:39 - 4:50 I laughed so hard !
I know a decent amount of theory and if you think improving is just stumbling around until you get something good you're wrong. If you don't know any theory you won't know what to play next to keep it flowing. even if the person hasn't studied the theory to be able to verbalize it, it is still there or the music would just sound like a bunch of random notes. there is no musicianship in telling a computer to play pre-recorded sounds in a certain order.
would you mind sharing your sensitivity settings your using on your you rock guitar? i have this and realize potential but the way it triggers now is quite horrible. i have had quite a bit of trouble dialing in a setting between finger picking and regular picking
obviously, this guy's a good player, but I just bought one, today(6-21-15), and all of the presets are terrible. There's no clear instructions on how to use any of the things it's supposed to have. It doesn't even come with an owners manual. You have to download that. You also have to download a program (Control Panel App) that makes no sense at all, unlike the Fender Fuze, Zoom Edit&share, or the Digitech programs that are pretty easy to use. I'd really like to know what the hell Fret-Select means.
All of these videos show some awesome players doing wonderful things, but MY YRG-1000 can't do any of it... ( out of the box ).
Peter Markellos - Hi Peter. Perhaps contacting us through our ticketing system and we can help you with the instrument set up. There are many parameters you can change for your particular playing style. Let us know through support and we are happy to assist you. We can describe Fet Select and how to implement it etc... look forward to hearing from you.
Can You compare efficiency of this guitar to Fishman Tripleplay or midi Roland?
So how hard would it be to strip this guitar down and put the electronics into a regular guitar?
dubstep , for example, are a lot of instruments.. and you got to PLAY all of them. exactly.. you have to play the drums( and know how are the patterns of a 2 step battery, for examle) , you have to play sinthetizers, piano, and more.. and, mostly, this people are skilled in piano, cause they use synths, or VST ( virtual sinths) so, they have to put a MIDI KEYBOARD , to play.. or.. if you are guitar skilled, THIS TOY. in order to make al the mix sound´s good, they have to do the same that,,
@DanMummSolo how do you record your own voice using the You Rock Guitar? (I mean the "sample your own voice" thingy). I've been searching everywhere but still can't figure it out :(
Me gustó el track de joropo.
@garyblades123 Wow, didn't know that. Thanks!!! I'll have to drop by L&M.
yeah if people didn't buy that crap no one would make it. but it's the ability to play an instrument that is key, I mean where is the musicianship in making music like that? when bands play live they usually don't just play what is on the album they add more fills and maybe some solos make the song faster or slower things like that and you don't get that with a song made on a computer. you go to a rap concert and what do you see? it's just the rapper with the backing track of the album playing.
Looks like it doesn't have strings on the fretboard? That's the issue, I see it can track flawlessly, but with no proper strings = no expression = just a toy. Look at the Synthaxe and the Yamaha G10 both have full sets of strings all at the same gauge, the Synthaxe became an expressive instrument in the hands of Allan Holdsworth.
not really people can just pick up the program and do a guess and check until they get something they like with no knowledge of anything but how to press a button. that isn't to say a real composer couldn't use a computer program, but that the program makes it too simple and takes away from music. they don't know what it really is to dedicate yourself to an instrument to learn the ins and outs the different fills techniques or bass runs or about building chords and embellishing them.
I want one.
Cool
Plus, you can't do per-note-vibrato, which is one of the great things of guitar. This is a keyboard, and for that, I'll much gladly get a keyboard over this thing. This thing misses the great elements from guitar.
Hi.. It works in ableton live too??
OMG I want one! how much is it??
Do you also have the guitar notation tab for the left solo on the top? : P
i find it funny how ppl expect it to play like a real guitar. even the roland hexpickup has noticable latency. seems like a good midi controller with virtual instruments
final has be awesome
Can you use this with VST's such as massive?
One question... can you palm mute on this thing?
Great review. Frustrating comments.
did you have a stroke while you were typing that?
dude what happens if you break a string??do they have little replacement strings or what??and also its not like a touch pad is it like its buttons or what?
What happens if a string breaks?
do you know the price of the synthaxe?
can someone please tell me the song he started playing with the organ effect when he started demonstrating the built in effects at 2:28?
@DanMummSolo
Actually, I play guitar, and use a DAW with several VSTs and midi controllers. I'm certainly not at the level of technical ability that you've reached to be sure, and I guess that considering your position (as a paid endorsee), I can understand your response...it's just not for me.
is this monophonic? or can you play chords?
does this have a left hand play mode?
Does it work with Guitar Rig 5
putting its toy like look and sounds aside, this could be a good tool for notation, and for trigerring synths for non keyboard players - anyone using it for that?
because it is a shortcut if anything. you don't have to spend hours and hours practicing to improve your skill. there is no improvisation to it at all. they just make the track once with the software then it's just complete. I'm not against using a computer to get better at an instrument, I'm against the whole musical composition being electronic, that isn't creative nor talent.
is this compatible with fl studio?
can you play it left handed?
I'm not saying every single person who has ever used a computer is talentless but that it allows people to be talentless and produce something. it has really just become the easy way out.
so whats the price?
I want this o.o
How
How you squeal in it?