AllThumbs -> YRG Gen2 Midi Guitar (Feb. 5 2017 18:10:59)
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I picked one of these up today to try for 'silent' practice. I get full sound through the headphones on it, but nobody else hears it. Also has a standard guitar amp jack and a mini usb for PC use. Has anyone else tried one? Setup has a lot of options. I've been fiddling with the different settings to get it to behave the way I want. It will never sound like a real classical guitar, but it does let you run through right and left hand work and you can hear if the notes are correct. Neck is narrower than my Ferrer, so it takes a slight adjustment, but no different to what I do when I get my acoustic out to play some fingerpicking. It has no strings on the neck. There are raised rubber 'strings' between each fret. You can hammer-on and pull off, but you cannot pull off to an open string (unless you capo at 1st fret and transpose the instrument a semitone - workaround). It has 15 guitar voices from acoustic through nylon, electric and Banjo. Also synth voices. Backing tracks are built in as are chorus and synth additions. You could plug it into some Notation software and record your compositions. There's also a 'Tap' mode that lets you use the frets like a huge keyboard. I tried it as a controller with my Aria (Garritan) synth software and it worked there too, but didn't seem to have any decay. Probably me not knowing how to set the voices up though as I'm no synth expert. I'm not sure I'm going to keep it, but it is a fun piece of gear that is perhaps not as useful for Flamenco as it might be for Rock or Acoustic.
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