What Mac Said

I have one of these YRG controllers AND a few real guitars with GK-2's or other hex MIDI pickups (which are all frequency to midi note convertors)

The YRG "controller" has zero (essentially) MIDI note latency - because there is no frequency sampling for the contoller to figure out which MIDI note to play. Your finger on the fret/"string" intersect (or open string - no fret) tells this controller directly which note to play .

I haven't torn it apart but these APPEAR to be pressure switches of some sort. However, if you wish to trigger VSTi sounds in the PC you ARE going to have the same AUDIO latency that you would have with ANY external MIDI controller. So whatever your PC setup has -it's independent of this or any controller.


Just because it has no real "strings" don't think you can't get bad artifacts and mis-triggered notes, etc. If you DO NOT PLAY cleanly - you still have issues. Some of this is/can be corrected or made worse by how you have string gain (string sensitivity), global trigger sens set up as well as how loose or tight you adjust the actual short segment "strings" (there are minor adjustments on the "bridge" end). So in that respect it's like any other "real" guitar MIDI controller.

The on-board sounds are so-so (bad, fair and some ok to a qualified "good" but none are "outstanding in their field" - for us old mil types). But I don't use it as a sound module and I sure wouldn't buy it AS a sound module. I use it as a QUICK controller to get stuff into PC.

I have lots of keyboards but I'm not any good and definitely not fast - guitar is what I know how to play well. There are times I don't feel like firing up my racks and GR-50 (my only interface that accepts all my real guitars MIDI interfaces but like teh YRG I don't use the GR-50 as a sound module anymore either just a pass through to XV-5080, Motif, VSTi's, or whatever)

Only thing I really miss is ability to apply finger vibrato but sounds that REQUIRE that I use a real guitar controller.

BTW - I have a Limited Edition Gen 2 ($178) but it's identical to the $140 one except 10 more on-board sounds and "LE" (comes with headstock piece) - it's blast to just plug in head-sets and "screw around" with it!

Larry

Last edited by Larry Kehl; 07/29/12 02:04 PM.
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