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The MMA (MIDI Manufacturers association) celebrated the 30 year anniversary of MIDI at the 2013 NAMM show. Besides several historical events, including showing a 30 year old Commodore 64 used as a MIDI sequencer to control an iPad base audio synthesizer. Talk about 'back to the future'/
Check out the MIDI Creators and Innovators Panel discussion, this included luminaries: Dave Smith, George Duke, Tom Oberheim, Alan Parsons, Jordan Rudess, Craig Anderton.
Note the mention of the YRG at: 33:40 secs
For the full article go here: http://www.midi.org/aboutus/news/2013namm.php
You Rock Guitar: a battery-powered MIDI marvel
Updated: Apr 18, 2012 7:02 AM PDTThe You Rock Guitar is a
digital guitar designed for musicians, performers, music teachers,
beginners and video gamers. The device has strings and a finger board,
just like a real guitar, but it never needs tuning.
Furthermore, it provides 99 built-in presets and 25 digitally-sampled
guitars, allowing it to sound like a six-string acoustic or
the electric "ax" of your choice -- at the press of a button.
Also included are 50 synthesizer sounds, such as pianos, organs,
strings, brass, etc., and 75 built-in song and drum loops for musical
accompaniment.
The unit supports playing styles, ranging from tapping to sliding, and
employs one of the best MIDI controllers available, which ensures
compatibility with all the popular software on both Mac and PC.
In "You Rock Mode," the device will not let you play a wrong note and
keeps you in the right chord progression, which is ideal for beginners
and a great teaching tool.
A built-in whammy bar is provided for pitch bend (both up and down),
and you can even record your own creations with the on-board MIDI
recorder.
In "Game Mode," the unit is compatible with both Rock Band and Guitar
Hero and can connect wirelessly to most major consoles, including the
Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation3, using an optional GameFlex
cartridge.
The device is powered by 4 AA batteries (not included) or USB power,
and a removable neck makes it easy to transport.
A built-in panel with lighted buttons and a numeric display
controls everything, except for the volume knob
and pitch bending controls on the face. Connecting to
a computer is only necessary if you want to use the guitar with
GarageBand or some other software.
A variety of inputs and outputs are provided, including a stereo
headphone jack, stereo audio input, standard 1/4-in. guitar cable jack,
high-speed USB to MIDI, and a legacy MIDI five-pin connector.
The You Rock Guitar weighs approximately 7.5 lbs.,
measures around 30" x 14" x 3" , and has an MSRP of $219.99. For more
information, visit YouRockGuitar.com.
SEE the original article at
http://www.fox8live.com/story/
Check Out Dan Mumms You Rock Guitar demo in Shanghai
October 12~15 was Music China in Shanghai. EETI, our new distributor in China is featuring the You Rock Guitar in their booth to present our technology to the Asian Music Market - this is our first big International show. We sent Josh Elion and Dan Mumm to represent us at the EETI booth. Dan will be showing his extraordinary prowess on guitar (in this case we are lucky that it's the You Rock Guitar).
The show is being held at the New Shanghai Expo Center from Oct 12~15, 2011
And we are in great company at the show ...
Dan is scheduled to demo 3 times a day + a performance on the main stage of the exhibition.
AP Photo/Susan Ragan
Being an Electronics Engineer, I was both an early adopter and then a latecomer to Apple. I was compelled to buy the first Mac that came out in 1984 or thereabouts - it was so different and exciting, that as an Engineer I had to have one -- I wrote some Mandelbrots and FFT’s for it, but could not get any real mileage out of it, 25 years later (2009) I bought my next Apple product, an iPhone! Now I have an MacBook, an iPad and we use Macs in our offices and we all want to write apps for the iPad - a testament to the genius of Steve Jobs
Cliff Elion
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Jimmy says: "the type of performance I do in this Video could be achieved by most anyone with a fraction of the effort that it would take to approach something like this on Traditional instruments. Additionally, because of the physical limitations of a human, some of the voicing I play simply could not be played at that speed on traditional instruments". "Even an absolute beginner can play it instantly, with some of the more simple layouts"
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