Seeking Guitar Teachers

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.

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What can you do with a true digital guitar?

100 Guitar & Synth Presets – blends, mix sounds, levels, tunings, capos, tap mode, open mode.
25 Sampled Real Guitars – Strats, Les Pauls, Acoustics, Nylons, 12-strings, Telly’s all 16 bit long samples.
25 You Rock Mode™ Tracks – just the rocking start to learning all the progressions that changes the world
50 Alternate Tunings – From Hendrix and Hutchins, Mitchell and Hedges plus the classics.
Digital Capo – No need to tune a single string.
Tap Mode – When you’re felling like Eddie, we ready to deliver
Whammy Bar – pitch bend up or down.
Vibrato Joystick – for that mushroom sustained amp feedback effect.
1/4” and stereo mini output – Yeah we got that.
On-board recorder – take the You Rock Guitar anywhere and still save your creations
MIDI & USB – the fastest and easiest, all 16 channels plus Mono modes on Channels 1-6 or 11-16

You Rock Mode – Sound Loops & Theory

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. You see we have some of the greatest rock and roll chord progressions ever built right into the guitar. (and you can download more) and with each progression comes a type of digital fretboard overlay. It allows you to only play the right notes for those chords. That is the You Rock Mode. You push the You Rock button on the guitar and voila, never make a mistake, and if you do? The guitar sounds more like a video game with a little scratch sound, but not a wrong note.

Wii Bluetooth and PS3 GameFlex™ first to arrive

With the CES show looming we’re wrapping up testing on Rock Band and Guitar Hero. We’ve had Max doing some videos on YouTube too. The first up are for the Wii and RockBand’s Beatles Wii game. The You Rock Guitar is wireless of course and playing some classics in Expert Mode. On one of the video it shows Max first playing the guitr as a digital guitar, playing a bit of “Blackbird” by the Beatles, then switching to game mode and a second later playing the video game, impressive to say the least.

Go To You Tube GameFlex™ demos

It’s Show Time – CES & NAMM 2010

“Inspired Instruments, Inc. (LV Hilton suite 2549; LVCC, North Hall booth #5627; www.yourockguitar.com) introduces the You Rock Guitar, which lets anyone rock right out of the box. It works seamlessly with Guitar Hero and Rock Band on Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 gaming platforms, but can also can be plugged into a standard guitar amplifier or headphones and played like a conventional guitar using any of 100 pre-set guitar and synth sounds. Incorporating a super touch-sensitive neck and real strings for fast, accurate picking, the You Rock Guitar effectively delivers the performance and feeling of a real six-string instrument.”

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Production Update

We’ve had some major decisions to make. We heard, “you get one chance to make a first impression” so we changed the string triggering mechanism for maximum sensitivity. (Cost 4 weeks) We were told “if the ’strings’ on the fret board were softer, it would feel so much better”… that cost us over a month… but that is what we will be showing up at CES and NAMM with

Then there was going to 10 to 25+ guitars, 50 synth sounds, 10 to 50 Open guitar tunings, 5 to 15 Capo settings, 25 on-board songs (Custom jam-friendly Wav loops to jam within the You Rock mode), The You Rock programming and testing, then it has to work together, tack on another few months. We missed the year 2009, and that is very painful, but in fact you do only get one chance to make a first impression and we knew we could do better. And we have.

We made some tough choices. We apologize for the delays, and we will start delivering to the pre-order lists, friends, family, reps and the press in January after CES and NAMM.

So now we focus our attention on the CES, final coding, some big surprises at CES and our ability to re-invent what was often considered to be just a hybrid game controller or a digital guitar… the You Rock Guitar is much more than that. It is a game changer, it is a guitar that every guitar player will want to have for so many reasons. You’ll still want your Strat, your big body acoustic, your nylon, maybe even Les, but you’ll also want a You Rock Guitar, and for reasons you don’t even know yet.

The response to the $179 high-speed MIDI guitar has been outrageous. The sheer joy of going from mere buttons and a paddle to strings and frets for the gamers is a leap toward real music. (BTW, don’t buttons and a paddle sound like something you get when you’ve been bad?)

Ultimately we apologize for not being able to be under the tree for Timmy this year for the holidays. It pains no one more than us!!! We made some major improvements for the long term viability and flexibility of the You Rock Guitar and it cost in time and money, but we believe it was well spent. And as tough as the decisions were, we made them in the best interest of the gamers the rockers, the mom’s and dads and those who want to rock… anywhere, anytime.

Thanks for your patience and support,

Kevin Kent
CEO

P.S. Its my birthday so please don’t bash me for being honest!