You Rock YRG-1000 MIDI Controller Electric Guitar :: Midi Devices (amps, mergers, wind controllers & more) :: Midi Gear

There's truly never been anything quite like the You Rock Guitar™ YRG-1000. The sheer number of devices with which it is compatible – Mac, PC, PS3™, Wii™, Amps, and MIDI, to name only a few – distinguish it as the singular music solution for today's generation of guitarists.

A professional-grade musical instrument, the YRG provides electronic musicians with the first ever non-button based, latency free guitar device for MIDI sequencing. Its unique, patent pending neck and fretboard provide a pain-free playing experience for the beginning musician.

Its 25 built-in guitars (none of which will ever need to be tuned) and 50 built in synths provide an unprecedented flexibility for performance – everything from folksy, nylon string acoustics to shredding, stadium leads are quite literally at your fingertips.

And with its Gameflex cartridges, the You Rock Guitar presents gamers with the Holy Grail of video game controllers – something that not only transforms the experience of playing games such as Rockband™ and Guitar Hero™, but that finally bridges the gap between the worlds of rhythm gaming and real music.

The YRG-1000 comes with neck strap, mini-USB cable (6'), guitar cable (9'), guitar picks, and quick start guide.

NNT - Never Needs Tuning™
Imagine never having to tune your guitar again. With the You Rock Guitar™, you never will.

You Rock - No Matter What
The YRG's innovative You Rock Modes help to allow the beginning guitarist a smooth transition into the world of musical expression – ensuring that embarrassing wrong notes are never sounded and teaching scales crucial to the world of the guitar.

Game ON
The revolutionary technology behind Inspired's Gameflex™ Cartridges allows for an unprecedented level of video game compatibility. No longer does the multi-console gamer have need of a different guitar controller for each of his systems – simply insert the appropriate Gameflex™ cartridge into your You Rock Guitar™, and get rocking!

At your fingertips
Fret Select™ makes switching between alternate tunings, guitar sounds, synthesizers, MIDI channels, and virtually every other feature on the guitar a breeze.

Features

99 preloaded, fully customizable presets for selecting and blending sounds, tunings, backing tracks, and more
25 professionally sampled guitar sounds
50 synth sounds – organs, voices, strings, pads, and more
65 open/alternate tuning presets – plus customizable tuning slots
USB connectivity for use as a MIDI controller with programs such as Logic™, Reason™, and Garage Band™
Dual-direction whammy bar
Bridge Mute and exclusive finger-release mute
Record your own creations with the on-board MIDI recorder
Gameflex™ port expands connectivity to additional gaming platforms wirelessly
A truly mobile digital guitar, folding up to just under 19" in length
Standard guitar cable output for use with amplifiers
Stereo mini-headphone output for use with headphones/computer speakers
Stereo mini-headphone output for iPods™/iPhone™/iPad™
High Speed USB to MIDI
Legacy MIDI 5 pin connector
Uses 4 AA batteries or USB power.

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Author: WannaBossa
I just spent the whole weekend getting to know the YRG. The first thing I did was to download the software package and update the guitar's firmware, which worked seamlessly. Then I checked out the software control panel that comes with the download. It's very extensive with parameters for adjusting velocity, the pitch or each string, the volume of the guitar vs. synth sounds, and much more. As one reviewer mentioned, I could hear that some strings weren't quite as loud as the rest.

I visited the forum at YouRockGuitar.com to get advice. By carefully loosening or tightening the various strings I was able to get the volume differences under control. I did notice that when loosening one string, the others got a little tighter, but by continuing to adjust them minutely as needed all the levels and string tension evened out. Then within the software control panel, I was able to further adjust the volume of the top E to bring it up a little more to suit my style of playing. While connected to my Mac G5, I tested the YRG with a tab notation program called "Progression."

I set the midi send on the guitar to have an individual channel for each string. In this way I was able to play in real time, and see the program create accurate guitar tab for my performance. Next I tried running some software synth plugins. I set the signal from all of the strings to go into just one midi channel. That worked fine too. I got the wii game cartridge with the YRG and checked out that option.

The wii recognized the guitar and I was able to navigate and play Guitar Hero with just the guitar. It's so much better having real strings to pick and a neck that feels "normal." Our band is having a practice this week and I'm supposed to play acoustic guitar on 2 songs. I spent a little time creating some patches that combine an acoustic sound with a touch of synth.

The software control panel real helps for tweaking patches. I can't wait to see the guys' f

Author: JMay
The YRG is a very versatile digital sound guitar/midi controller/game controller. With a good sequencer program to record midi tracks and some software synthersizers and maybe an old midi instrument that might be laying around you can do a lot of things with this instrument. You must download the update USB PC controller screen utility so that while the guitar is plugged into the USB and powered on! you can tweak the response and tuning which then becomes set into the instrument until you change settings. I use PG PowerTracks Pro Audio sequencer for midi and audio as well as notation and a guitar live screen of notes played on a guitar neck, PoiZone standalone software synth, Proteus X software synth which you can download for free at Creative Professional's website, and an old Yamaha CX5M music computer which has nice bass DX7 sounds that I like. The YRG controls all of these things at the same time. The PoiZone is voiced from the PG sequencer while tracks are midi recording on the program using the USB cord which also provides power. But what blew me away was when I plugged in a midi cable into my CX5M and the YRG while it

was already on doing the other things I told you about and with an amp monitoring the instrument and with a mp3 player playing in the stereo input which mixes with the guitar and synth module sounds which are built into the instrument and feeds both a mono out and a stereo out. So I can do many things at the same time and can control 4 layered sounds for a wide choice of mixes or just for the fatness of the sound. Then as a game controller it works for all the game boxes, with a plug in adapter that I would not be surprised if this works while the other things are being used!

Note for best tracking and voicing use the tap setting and playing style like Stanley Jordan. I'm just saying, nothing personal just an observation.

Author: Raf
I was immediately at home on the YRG with its molded fret board and MIDI triggering strings. Even though you are triggering touch sensitive buttons on the fret board, the look and feel (fret size and neck length are accurate) of the molded rubber made it easy to play chords and scale runs. 6 strings with adjustable sensitivity attached to MIDI triggers also gave the feel of playing a real guitar using my strumming hand.

On-board sounds and the ability to run off batteries made the YRG fun to simply fire up and play around my house wearing headphones. Some other great advantages were the ease of switching between tapping and strumming mode as well as quickly switching over to MIDI mode and triggering samples in Kontakt. Variable sensitivity settings (as well as a number of other options) gave me the ability to tailor the YRG to my playing style since I tend to play a bit heavier-handed.

The YRG also comes in at an amazing price for a fully-featured MIDI controller for guitar players.

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