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.