You Rock Guitar moves further into music
January 2013 – At the NAMM 2013 show the team at You Rock Guitar were showing their Gen2 MIDI guitar. The company has moved away from gaming controllers, and is now focusing and design and sensor technology on the mainstream music marketplace. The focus of the new Gen 2 products is to create a “Midi keyboard for Guitarists”.
You ROck Guitar – Gen2 Midi Guitar
The new guitar has an improved pickup design and firmware, as well as a MIDI surface controlelr. The new firmware allows for the mapping of multiple sounds to the fingerboard and the application of effects such as chorus and transposing with pan and zoom. The device can support up to 99 layer presets. The device’s MIDI controller supports industry standard DAWs such as Presonus, Abelton Live and others.
The traditional guitar device has a 1/4″ guitar jack, a mini headphone output, whammy bar, modulation joystick, bridge mute, line-in for iPod and MP3, legacy 5pin MIDI and usese 4 AA batteries. The digital core has 15 guitar sounds for acoustics, electrics and basses. 15 sampled synth sounds from piano, strings, pads, drums, 20 on-board jamming and practice loops, and a velocity switch for handling downloaded content.
The unit features a detachable 22 fret neck and a separate headstock. The detachable neck allows the system to be backpack and flight friendly The Gen2 guitar is available in April 2013..
