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The You Rock Guitar will prove to be many things to many people. But I had never thought about the importance of its mobility until a few days ago. I was on a flight back from San Francisco, I had the guitar neck off the body and it was “folded in half” in the Gig bag so it was in a very small space under my arm. At the airport the TSA inspection with my shoes off was all about how cool the guitar-playing scanner dude thought it was, he wanted one. He had even red some stuff on the blogs about what the You Rock Guitar didn’t do. I clarified, gave him my card and rocked on down the hall. |
Digital Guitar
USA Today, CNET, Geekazine, Computer Radio, SelfishMoms, GamerliveTV, and Computer Outlook, Endgadget, and Guizmodo were amongst those covering the You Rock Guitar this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CES Coverage of Inspired Instrument’s You Rock Guitar
USB & Midi Controller
Let’s face it. A real playable, fast, MIDI guitar has been illusive. We’ll prove that it is not so illusive any more. MIDI implementation for guitarists, by guitarist is a whole other bowl of cherries. So we did some cherry picking, how about 50 built-in Alternate string tunings, how about Digital Cap presets. (And of course, you never need to tune the You Rock Guitar) And oh yeah that big MIDI guitar issue converting pitch to MIDI… we’ll we think that has failed you long enough. The You Rock Guitar has NO PERCEPTIBLE DELAY. If its fast enough for EXPERT MODE on video games, its fast enough for Rock and Roll.
iPod, MP3 and Mobile
You Rock Guitar is the first instrument designed to meet the needs of gamers going from video games to guitar, budding new guitarists who want to have a MIDI device to learn with anywhere, to Composers and musicians who want a high-speed low cost MIDI guitar for composing with Mac’s or PC’s, and for teachers on the move who have needed a way to share MIDI files and tutorials with their students. And finally, for those people on the move who want to play anywhere, anytime, whether it be with their iPod as the back-up band plugged into the guitar or perhaps even your iPhone.
Gameflex™
We’re prepping for shipping and we’re doing videos showing the You Rock Guitar’s GameFlex in action.
See the videos showing the Wii and the PS3 in action. Even switching from GUITAR MODE to GAME MODE in a second. Very cool, very fast. Level up to You Rock Guitar.
You Rock Mode
Did you ever just want to pick up a guitar and rock out and always sound like you knew what you were doing? Or did you want to go straight from Guitar Hero to playing a real guitar without having to tune the dang thang or practicing over and over… well were not saying you still don’t need to practice, but were going to make learning guitar more fun that anyone ever thought possible.
Sound Library
One of the things that is making the You Rock Guitar such a great product is the experience that is going into. We are leveraging years and years of experience. One of the most profound areas where this is proving to be so important is in the guitar sound sampling and variable compression technology being implemented by Audio Guru, Doug Morton.
SDK
If you would be interested in the Beta program or feel as though you may have a contribution to make in the development process, please contact us. Programmers with existing MIDI games or music based computer games might take great delight in our SDK program. We expect it to be a lot of fun and quite profitible for those early adopters. Also looking for iPhone music developers.
Education
We love you guys, we know how much time is spent in your lessons writing out tab or trying to get your students to practice. We also know some of you are active on YouTube and the web in general. We want to know you better and in some cases open up affiliate relationships in exchange for open relationships that benefit, you, your students and us.
We realize with a high speed affordable MIDI guitar like ours it opens up a whole new world with your budding guitarists. We want everyone to play numerous guitars and enjoy acoustics and electrics galore. We also understand that new guitarists are often coming from gaming and to them just having to tune a $150 guitar can be a lesson in patience like no other. We want to help. (Our guitar never needs tuning) Please let us know about yourself and how we can help you. info@inspired.com
Also see what Berklee performance grad, author, teacher Karl Aranjo has to say.
| Game Developers Once the product is released over the summer, we will be seeking game and MIDI developers. See if you can come up with a game concept. If you do, we will help you sell it and offer it to all our customers. Click here for more information. |
Music Educators Although we are a fun bridge instrument for many gamers, we do understand that the You Rock Guitar might very well be the best educational instrument for guitar ever... Once the product is released over the summer, we will be seeking MIDI developers to help us test and implement our SDK. Click here for more information. |
Product Placement We appreciate any and all exposure on Television, Radio and in Movies, if you are in production and would like to discuss getting some guitars for the set, please contact us directly, we will be happy to help you out. Click here for more information. |

