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For all the software adjustments on offer, however, the most important playing parameter as far as my own experience was concerned is one that can be adjusted with a screwdriver: I found that reducing the tension of the right‑hand 'plucking' strings made a huge difference to my ability to access the full range of velocities, and to feel in control of how notes would sound. You also have a choice of seven velocity scalings, from fully linear all the way up to fixed. The software editor allows you to adjust overall sensitivity and individual string gain to help find a consistent playing feel that generates the least amount of doubled or unwanted notes versus dropped or missed notes. but I don't, and I suspect you won't either, when there is a software alternative that makes the job so much easier.
There's all kinds of clever stuff you can do using the fretboard for data entry too. You can in fact access everything in the OS from the control‑panel buttons alone, but you wouldn't want to, unless you are one of those strange people who do actually miss programming a six‑operator FM synth with just a data‑entry slider. The temptation to tweak sensitivity and velocity scaling is immediate, and tweak you can, thanks to a comprehensive software editor available as a download from the well‑appointed web site. Slow single notes are easy simple chords are easy, but fast runs and transitions between complex chords can start to generate a bit of spurious note data. Much of the control panel is redundant when the instrument is used as a MIDI controller, but you'll want to be aware of the Tap mode, which outputs notes as soon as they are 'fretted' in the left hand, without requiring a string trigger note, and also Slide, which converts hammer‑on notes to pitch bends, provided that the interval matches the one selected in the control software.īecause there's no pitch‑to‑MIDI conversion involved, output is as instantaneous as a keyboard and as clean as your playing ability on a narrow, plastic fingerboard with fake strings and frets will allow. What you've got on the YRG is what you'd expect to find on any small keyboard controller: program Inc/Dec buttons, a volume control, a mod wheel and a pitch bender (up to ☑2 semitones), which is implemented here in the form of a guitar 'tremolo' (vibrato) arm. Fundamentally, it's a bit like the Starr Labs Ztar I reviewed in SOS March 2011, but with virtual strings in place of buttons, simpler software and fewer controller options. These detect finger pressure at the 'frets' in order to determine the pitches of notes, whilst a shorter set of 'real' strings under the right hand generate note‑on and velocity data. The YRG (their abbreviation) uses 'virtual' strings moulded into the surface of the neck.
And he's succeeded on both fronts: it's highly affordable, at £129 $219, and it works well enough as a MIDI controller to be a worthwhile investment for any guitar player who wants to be able to get notes into a DAW without having to acquire keyboard skills. The You Rock Guitar's designer, and the man behind the company, Cliff Elion, is actually a MIDI guitarist who set out to create a simple but effective MIDI guitar controller, but made sure it also had a more mass‑market application to help make it affordable. If you can look beyond all of that, what you will see is the affordable, practical MIDI guitar controller that someone should have produced years ago, but which nobody quite did. Forget the cheap 'plasticky‑ness' of its looks forget, if you can, the dorky name and that fact that it outputs circa‑1987 on‑board synth and 'guitar' sounds forget the fact that it will allow you to record your 'no‑wrong‑notes‑allowed You Rock Mode' performances over its in‑built backing tracks to an internal sequencer - those are all features for a different type of user.
If you are wondering what Sound On Sound is doing reviewing a 'games controller', rest assured: the You Rock Guitar appears in these pages for the best of reasons. It looks like something that should be plugged into a games console, but Inspired Instruments' You Rock Guitar just might be the MIDI guitar controller you've always wanted!
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