will the yourockguitar.com guitar work with rb3?

[esquehill]

if so, on which consoles??

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Anyone tried this product?

[Icemage]

Won't work for Rock Band 3 right now and no official word whether it will ever work (in theory the YRG has its own firmware and can theoretically figure out how to send the right SysEx MIDI signals, but whether Harmonix can/will clue the YRG manufacturer in on how to do so is another matter entirely).

[TubaDude49]

Won't work for Rock Band 3 right now and no official word whether it will ever work (in theory the YRG has its own firmware and can theoretically figure out how to send the right SysEx MIDI signals, but whether Harmonix can/will clue the YRG manufacturer in on how to do so is another matter entirely).

My guess is that Seven 45 is desperate and buying up a ton of Mustangs and Squiers to reverse engineer

[Dentata]

My guess is that Seven 45 is desperate and buying up a ton of Mustangs and Squiers to reverse engineer

It is all just MIDI. I can (and have) hooked up my Mustang to my computer through an adaptor and looked at the messages sent. I used my sequencer to record it, and MidiOX to just look at them. It isn't very hard to do. I'm pretty sure I could even get a sequencer to send the right messages to mimic the Mustang so that I could cheat on the Pro Guitar/Bass Leaderboards if I were so inclined, but it would be work that I'm too lazy to do.

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

It is all just MIDI. I can (and have) hooked up my Mustang to my computer through an adaptor and looked at the messages sent. I used my sequencer to record it, and MidiOX to just look at them. It isn't very hard to do. I'm pretty sure I could even get a sequencer to send the right messages to mimic the Mustang so that I could cheat on the Pro Guitar/Bass Leaderboards if I were so inclined, but it would be work that I'm too lazy to do.

If you plug something into the MIDI Pro Adapter and set it to Guitar, it will assume you have a Squier, so you'll get charts that use all 22 frets. You will have to adjust.

There are two possible ways the You Rock guys can make their guitar compatible with Pro Guitar:

1. Changing the firmware to make the MIDI signals sent out be the same as the Squier
2. A GameFlex cartridge that tricks Rock Band 3 into thinking the You Rock is a Mustang

I would prefer the former. The only advantage of the latter is that you would be able to play legacy charts, I have two legacy guitars anyway, and I'd rather play full 22-fret charts.

[Awesome_Tree]

I would prefer the former. The only advantage of the latter is that you would be able to play legacy charts, I have two legacy guitars anyway, and I'd rather play full 22-fret charts.

Not to mention legacy charts are hard to play on a mustang, let alone a proper guitar.

[Rednaz]

My guess is that Seven 45 is desperate and buying up a ton of Mustangs and Squiers to reverse engineer

S45 didn't make the YRG.

[tmcd35]

If you plug something into the MIDI Pro Adapter and set it to Guitar, it will assume you have a Squier, so you'll get charts that use all 22 frets. You will have to adjust.

There are two possible ways the You Rock guys can make their guitar compatible with Pro Guitar:

1. Changing the firmware to make the MIDI signals sent out be the same as the Squier
2. A GameFlex cartridge that tricks Rock Band 3 into thinking the You Rock is a Mustang

I would prefer the former. The only advantage of the latter is that you would be able to play legacy charts, I have two legacy guitars anyway, and I'd rather play full 22-fret charts.

Thanks to this thread I've just been looking into this and the YouRock seems to be basically the Mustang with a few extra, and potentially very useful, features.

I now don't know what to do?

1) buy the Mustang and forget the YouRock?
2) buy the YouRock and prey a patch/upgrade from one of the two is forth coming?
3) buy both?

Tempted at buying both but I know I'd be gutted if the YouRock is then patched...

Looking at their website it seems they do do firmware updates to the YRG. So a firmware update to make the YRG appear/work like the mustang I don't think is all that impossible or out of the question. My hunch is it's a matter of if rather than when.

Any how, I've emailed both YRG and Harmonix on the subject, be interested to see if I get any replies.

I'm certainly not making any buying decisions this side of next pay day any way (mid Jan).

[tmcd35]

Just an update to my last post.

I emailed both HMX and Inspired Instruments. Inspired replied with "We are researching updating the YRG to work with the MadCatz MIDI Adapter. The Midi Adapter's release has been pushed back to 29/12".

I've asked for more detail, but I very much doubt either company will give me more than that until they are ready for an official announcement.

So, Having thought long and hard about it - I've just bought the YouRock Guitar.

I'm currently working my way through RB3 using the standard 5-button guitar. I've been playing just over a month and I'm now stuck on Tier-0 songs on Hard. I don't need a Pro Guitar until I've completed my Tier-6 songs on Expert at at least 95%.

I figure I'm not going to need the Pro Guitar to mid-Feb at the earliest, maybe closer to March.

So either the YRG gets patched in the next 3 months and my gamble pays off and I'm a very happy chappy. Or, it can't/won't be patched and I have to buy a Mustang as well. Either way the YRG looks awesome and I can't way to get my hands on it!

[Quastor]

I'm currently working my way through RB3 using the standard 5-button guitar. I've been playing just over a month and I'm now stuck on Tier-0 songs on Hard. I don't need a Pro Guitar until I've completed my Tier-6 songs on Expert at at least 95%.

Just to give you some perspective, I've been playing the 5-button guitar since day one on Guitar Hero. So that's near 5 years of playing and practicing, and even now I'm usually in the high 80% on Tier-6 songs, if I can pass them at all. So don't get too frustrated if you're still working on nailing songs on Hard by March.