E3 2010: You Rock Guitar

Today was the first day of E3 and it could not have been any cooler. After wondering around for a few minutes in utter awe, we came across a booth where there was a guy playing rock band with a guitar I have never seen. And on the other side of the booth there was another guy playing real guitar hooked up to a amp and the guitar looked exactly like the one hooked up to guitar hero. It turns out, they were the exact same guitar. It is a guitar that you can use to play ANY music game on ANY platform. Not only that but if you feel like jammin’ out for real, just plug it in your amp and play it like a real guitar. It’s called music mode and has multiple settings. You can choose from multiple acoustic, electric, 12 string, etc. guitars. It also has a variety of preloaded drum beats and tracks from a variety of genres.

The controller/guitar also TRIPLES as a MIDI controller for all of you DJ’s out there. And if your not that good at guitar but want to sound amazing, the guitar has a setting called “You Rock Mode 1″. What the You Rock Mode does is never let you play a wrong note. No matter what note you hit, the guitar keeps you in the right chord progression which can make a new-born baby sound like Eddie Van Halen. The second You Rock Mode teaches you the scales in a “game like fashion”.

Product Features:

- 100 Preloaded presets combining sounds, tunings, and modes

- 25 digitally sampled guitars, 6 string and 12 string acoustics, electronics from Jazz to shredding leads, etc

- 50 synth sounds for layering, solos, organs, voices, strings and pads

- 65 Open-tuning presets – and user programmable

- It never needs to be tuned and is always ready to play

- Select your fret for for touch navigation and ease of use

- Bridge mute and exclusive finger-release mute

- Record you own creations with the on-board MIDI recorder

- A special port expands connectivity to additional platforms wirelessly (BlueTooth for the Wii and Wifi for the PS3)

- The removable neck makes this truly a digital mobile guitar

- Built-in whammy bar for pitch bend – both up ad down

- Standard guitar cable output

- Stereo mini-headphone output for iPods/Iphones/Ipads

- High speed USB to MIDI

- Legacy MIDI 5 pin connector

- Uses 4 AA batteries or USB power

Come back tomorrow and I will have the hands on demo up. It has to be edited so it’s not quite ready. I will also return to the booth tomorrow to get more information on the MIDI controller and possibly a hands on for that and the controller being used as an actual guitar.