drewfx1

Or maybe you just don't rock?

Inconceivable!^TM

bapu

drewfx1

Or maybe you just don't rock?

Inconceivable!^TM

But actually the other part of my question was serious - I'm curious if it doesn't track very well in an absolute sense, or if it tracks much worse than other midi guitars (which, though I'm using dated technology, I find pretty darn finicky)?

No Problem - I'm a distant VH cousin from the land of VON! :) yeah I have one that I use for allot of recording stuff and I've been really pleased with it. Looking at it from the standpoint of a midi controller it's been a Godsend for tracking world instruments like the Sitar, Violin, Yambur etc as opposed to being a guitarist stuck using a keyboard. That alone in my eyes makes it worth the cost and then add the fact that it has internal sounds, easily compacts for travel etc makes it something you can use in so many applications that I realize I've barely scratched the surface even though I use it daily. That's what sparked my interests in seeing what others do with theirs.

True the strings on the neck are more like touchpads and I think that accounts for many peoples disdain over it not being a "real" guitar but they really made a great product for a guitarist to trigger midi sounds with. I had a Roland GR-33 and felt the tracking on that was bad because I couldn't play Yngwie Malmsteen on a piano patch without missing notes or getting double notes etc but then I realized you don't play a piano like a guitar. So to really replicate the sounds you are trying to trigger you have to play it like you would that instrument (the best that you can on a guitar anyway).

Once I took that approach it made all the difference in the world. So with this it's the same, you have to play with some finesse and think like a player of the instrument you are sampling and then you start to see how well it really does track! I use mine with Reason, Garageband, Sampletank, etc. and it works great. If I need to track guitar for something and I feel it's not articulated on the YRG the way I like, I grab the Ibanez and lay it down. That's the thing it's not intended to replace your guitar but to enhance your experience as a guitarist by expanding your creative boundaries!

drewfx1

bapu

drewfx1

Or maybe you just don't rock?

Inconceivable!^TM

But actually the other part of my question was serious - I'm curious if it doesn't track very well in an absolute sense, or if it tracks much worse than other midi guitars (which, though I'm using dated technology, I find pretty darn finicky)?

My first gen Roland MIDI pickup was better IMO.

bapu

drewfx1

bapu

drewfx1

Or maybe you just don't rock?

Inconceivable!^TM

But actually the other part of my question was serious - I'm curious if it doesn't track very well in an absolute sense, or if it tracks much worse than other midi guitars (which, though I'm using dated technology, I find pretty darn finicky)?

My first gen Roland MIDI pickup was better IMO.

Thanks.

Well done!

craigb

drewfx1

bapu

[Imagine something he wrote here.] 

 

Well done!

Great.  Now you've done it!  This will all go to his head you know.

I'm hoping he'll become so distracted by his own "accomplishments" that I can...

Um, uh. Move along. Nothing suspicious here.