The negative feedback getting millions of views is EXACTLY what they want. You couldn't pay for that kind of reach if the reviews were positive - no one would be watching this is there wasn't the drama around it. I'm glad you are taking their money though.
This exactly, even the other videos before and the meetings it def was for “face” to look like they cared but companies like this historically aren’t and act innocent when confronted as a tactic but just keep right in doing it. Product Scammers. Negative attention gets more eyes. 🤦♂️ my god plz stop Aeroband
Couldn't agree more. I don't get the bewilderment either. No promo is bad promo. This promo is golden for them. On top of that, you've made an entertaining video...which is what they also hoped for. They're getting all they want and people are likely still buying the product.
(I really wish people would finally stop saying - or rather believing - things like "no promo is bad promo". Bad promo is *always* bad. Yes, it might unfortunately give your product *some* attention and your company *some* business, but you will completely ruin your reputation in the process.)
@@Case_ It really isn't. Aero is proving that. That's why people say it. Sometimes, the old platitudes really are accurate. I get what you're saying but they're clearly just trying to hit quickly and vanish quick. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the owner of Aero likely does a thousand different things - all of them trash...LOL!!
On Amazon, it states 429$. A cheap guitar + midi keyboard + midi usb audio interface can cost more or less the same, and it would be way better than that piece of decoration in a karaoke that is gonna end up in a landfill.
Well, I bought a used USB MIDI controller with 61 keys a few years ago. Was only € 20 and came with the USB cable. This would be all you need if you wanted to input notes with a keyboard. If you want to use guitar it's a bit more complicated. I heard good things about this guitar MIDI software. If you want to go for hardware you would need to put a hex pickup on your guitar and get something like a Roland GR/BOSS SY/Axon AX or the Fishman Triple Play.
At that price point it's better off to buy a midi controller rather than a guitar shaped midi. If you want a real guitar that can also be a midi controller go for Jamstik. Sure it's $999, but it's a fully functional electric guitar with a midi controller.
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 No. Just no. Midi over guitar is extremely tedious. You will run into problems with chords and playing anything faster than 60bpm. Most of the jamstik reviews are sponsored. They won't compare it to a normal midi keyboard.
This thing really sounds like a toy my kids would play around with for 20 minutes on Christmas morning…then pack it away in the back of their closet waiting to get rid of it at the next garage sale! Makes no sense. Great honest review.
This is what you get when you have people who aren't musicians develop an "instrument" for musicians. They know nothing about their targeted audience so they please nobody. Years ago I bought a Fishman TriplePlay guitar/midi pickup (larger version) and it works amazing. Put it on any real guitar and you send midi and play any synth/samples you want. Chords, leads, pads, bass... The Fishman is about $430 which is almost the same price as this Aeroband thing but the Fishman actually works great on a real guitar.
This is honestly the funniest Beef ive seen so far just because they do not learn anything over and over and over like just do SOMETHING with his Suggestions Anything
I am the proud owner of 2 YRG-1000's which i use exclusively as a guitar midi controller. The tracking is great and the latency is almost non existent. They have a whammy bar for bends, a "slide" funtion and a "tap" function that makes the fretboard touch-sensitive allowing you to play 2 handed on the fretboard. and all for less than 200EUR. If this Aeroband midi guitar had these functions (which im pretty sure they dont) i would actually buy it.
Same here - an YRG1000 and an YRG1000 Gen2. Great controllers, albeit a bit weak on velocity. The "Joystick" maps directly to VCF parameters - Plug'n'Play with most Synths. Sadly, discontinued.
Just the music in the unboxing gave me a clue what was I signing for...the saga continued and of course, it's not better 🤣 this was somehow painful to watch...you're a trooper Henning
MIDI Guitar 3 is in Beta, but it works well based on the YT demos. It works with any real guitar's regular 1/4 inch audio output. There is no need for a hex pickup. It is MPE capable. So it can map almost any parameter to any controller (switch, pedal, breath, etc.). MPE makes it almost plug and play with any MPE capable synth and / or sampler, hardware or software. And of course it will work with any MIDI mode 4 (Omni Off, Mono On) synths from the past. You can also use it with any target which doesn't have either MPE or Mode 4 capability as long as you don't do individual string bending in a chord. So if you don't bend notes on a piano sound, for example, it will track wonderfully. It is not flawless. But it does a better job of tracking without ghost notes than my Fishman Triple Play which was my go to standard for the last seven years. So if you want a studio tool that lets you play any instrument on a guitar, I'd check it out.
I just love the unhinged brutal honesty in your videos...that's the best demonstration of how in today's short attention span one can easily watch 45 min video without really doing any skipping :D
i love how you really give it a go haha i would have thrown that out even if i was being paid to play it 😂 sucks how they are trying to get one over on us consumers when as many other comments have said weve had midi guitar solutions that are more affordable AND function a lot better than this for ages... and i can tell trying to play it makes you want to just play it on something that actually works like a keyboard, i dont think i would have given it as much of a shot as you did, great review henning!!
from an electronics engineer stance I can say it's so easy to fix, they're using off the shelf parts to do a custom job, the neck needs a total rework along with new controller code, just in the time in watching this I've worked it out, so why can't they?
Wym the neck needs a rework. You mean the silicone pressure sensors? I'm an electronic technician and i been thinking about this problem but it just returns that it wold be better and cheaper to just pick individual string signals and send them for proccesing ethier with a micro controller or a small dsp
Pauly, I could not post on your latest video, but I have to tell you Brother... I am 99.8% positive many of your viewers stand behind you on your reviews for being such honest and no bs ... dont change to the status Quo just to fit in do not ever change your style on your video's !! we need to take a stand against the corporate bs they try to sell us .. than you so much for your Honest reviews!!!
Like your unboxing background music 😂 The p.o.s.reminds me of the "Charlie Lab Digitar" in combination with "Döpfer Ribbon" in the 80s/90s. This thing is the best, when it's in your hands. Cause it makes so many musicians laugh. But I think its a very expensive joke. You can get a 1A Harley Benton Guitar for this money. Cool videos! Keep on !
I think this is a compliment to your honest, influencer status. People just want it because you talk about it - good or bad. Cheers to you Henning, I always enjoy your videos and approach.
It's almost like you're acting as their marketing/R&D department. They build a thing, send it to you to review, you trash it, then they over-literally take your feedback onboard, build a new thing, send it to you... and the cycle repeats. After another 10-12 cycles of this, they could come up with a pretty good instrument. Brilliant review, love it
_Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change..._ -a wise man
People called The Wright Brothers insane for trying to fly. Now you'll think about them flying ✈ the next time somebody references this insanity quote.❤
Another interesting option is Jam Origin´s Midi Guitar 2 (hopefully, soon 3). It is a software which turns the guitar into a MIDI controller, similar to the Fishman unit, with different limitations. However, you can use it with ANY guitar.
We need honest reviews like this, so thanks for that. The unboxing vid music pretty much said this wasn't going to be a favourable one! These people are barking mad!
I love my Jamstick Studio. Both as a midi guitar and as a regular standalone guitar. Of course tracking is not perfect on midi, but you can always clean it up on your daw if you playing simple melodies. Don't expect it to track flying sweeps and complex chords changing rapidly because it won't. No midi guitar will (as of 2024). Jamstick is 1000x better than this one you showed though. They used to have a possibly crappy one too (Jamstick 7), supposed to be for training. But ignoring that one, both the Jamstick Studio and Jamstick Classic are real, legit guitars that also do midi. You should do a review on one of them!
Sxioo.... out of respect for your art..... I forced myself to watch this all the way through. Even though everything in my being cried 'no stop, I can't take any more' It was painful.... but clearly not as painful as it was for you to review it! The only saving grace was that this review made me laugh several times. So I think this... um... device... has great potential in the comedy arena. I wonder if maybe actual guitar players would pay to sit and watch you review it again, probs work better if all sat together in a pub somewhere after a guitar show, drinking beer. I think that would be a very fun thing to do. Anyhow... well done you for trying hard to keep a straight face .. and ... think of the money 💰. Outstanding review. In so many awkward ways that I'm still smiling.
It's one thing for a company to make a guitar that can be difficult to play because of sharp frets or cheap hardware or massive neck dive or whatever. Those are usually solvable, if frustrating to deal with. It's another thing altogether to make a guitar that even experienced players say "yeah, I can't play this." Not because it needs to be repaired or upgraded, but because it is so fundamentally different to play that it's a whole different instrument.
Exactly. This is not an "instrument" for guitar players and no one else would be interested. There is no way someone can learn how to play guitar through this junk (there would be more chances with rubber bands on a plank). For EUR 80, I would consider it as a toy - kind of laughing with my pals having an hour of fun but nothing more - but this price is just ridiculous...
There was a toy like that in the 80s or early 90s that I had. It was a fun toy you could make actual music on, I’m a pro guitar player now and it had an impact on my life, I learned sweet child o mine on it in fact. It wasn’t $400 though, holy moly that’s hilarious!
The main problem with this products is that real instruments are so cheap. Many or most people don't know that, and as a Christmas gift for some youngster, 3-400 isn't seen as very expensive among lots of people these days. Also, it connects to a computer, which most people have, as opposed to a guitar amp, which most people don't have. It will sell based on people's ignoranse. This is a good and very honest channel.
as a guitar training tool I would never, but I would love something like a midi guitar, conected to a virtual guitar vst, like shredagge or one of those, bind the mute part of it to the palm mute key, and use it like some sort of, DIGITAL GUITAR I would mostly play deathcore breakdowns or something, so it would be very fun
I'd maybe pick one up at a flea market just to see what glitchy sonic chaos could be created with it. But it's a little to big to keep around just for the laughs. Circuit bending a kids keyboard or turning a greeting card into a contact mic is probably more fun, way cheaper and easier to stove away in your box of projects.
Thank you, Henning, for this GREAT review! Because of your diligent work here, I now know beyond the faintest shadow of doubt that I must stay as far away from AeroBand's guitars as possible but seriously consider purchasing a Fishman Triple Play. ¡Muchos gracias! Vielen Dank! Thank you so much!!!
Some time in the very late '90s I spent $100 for a set that had a pickup that fed a black box with a DSP engine inside that spit out MIDI. You mounted the pickup under your electric guitar strings and the DSP figured out what you were doing with each string and pumped it out the MIDI port. I don't recall exactly how well it worked, but it worked much better than this. I bet there are even better such products available today, maybe even cheaper than $100.
I like the idea of people improving on the interface that the Madcatz Mustang controller was based on. I found it easier to play accurately than other midi guitars that have more realistic strings or even the weird rubber frets on the Artiphon Instrument 1. The plastic buttons on the fretboard made it much more like a keyboard than a guitar, which was a good thing. If a new midi guitar expands and improves on this interface then I get a little excited. The one thing that Artiphon got right was the sleak and modern design that doesn’t mimic the overused aesthetic of a super strat. Unfortunately it was a little too heavy and not reliable with it’s accuracy of note triggering. I would love to see something more like a midi “shamisen”. Two or three courses of “strings” would allow for less clutter and therefore less mistakes. I could play simple chords and leads and trigger samples accurately using a device that is flexible as far as incorporating into my own custom aesthetic. I probably have very unique needs and expectations that aren’t for the mass market, which renders this whole conversation pointless. But I’ll always have an ear to the ground when it comes to new midi guitars, hoping that someone will have the same idea.
The aeroband people had to have dug up the thing from the 80s that was THE EXACT SAME THING. I can't find the model because every time you search for guitar-shaped synth you get SynthAxe, and guitar-shaped keyboard yields Keytars for miles. But in the 80s, we had this little plastic Yamaha (edit: maybe Casio) thing that had exactly the same setup as the aeroband guitar - steel strings just over the picking area, with a molded rubber fretboard that picked up your fretted positions as 'keys' that were then sounded by plucking the little string section.
Oh no, I was almost onboard to throw away my 7-string dreams just because this has a detune option and I like to record but I've been watching your reviews for years and I think I trust your word on this. I was just planning on using this as a MIDI controller and it has the looks if you ever wanted to play it live with a laptop for some sweet sweet sounds but I think I'm better off with other options. Hopefully they're hard at work on another version but if no one working on it is a musician, they need to collab with a reputable company and get this thing to take off because I can see so much potential but it's a shame the execution fell short.
Looks like a reincarnation of the Casio DG series from the 80's. I have a couple. Pat Metheney recorded with it, one of the first digital guitars, now considered a "holy grail" for collectors.
After seeing the previous video about this whatever it is, the story was done for me and I cannot imagine that this will ever be some kind of spectacular.
As deserved. This company isn't even phased by any suggestions or constructive criticism. It's like they don't get their feelings hurt, or even hear the advice. Goes right over their heads. Blows my mind.
@@charlesharper7292 You could be right, but I also have a theory. Henning says that no one in the company is a musician. That's why they have no idea how to make a useful midi "guitar". There are so many aspects of it and so many controls that they just don't know exist.
@@nedim_guitar yeah. That's why if they don't get someone, employed qualified, a competent professional musician PREFERABLY, a guitar player, this project will crash and burn.
@@charlesharper7292 Yeah, and it's not fun to see, even though it's a little funny. If we're going to learn anything, it's that if you want to start a business, do something that you know how to do. It's a plus if it's useful.
@@nedim_guitar I hate to see anyone's entrepreneurial project fail, when with planning, and actually educating yourself you could make something cool and useful. But this thing is like Henning said, a Christmas gift for the kids, and after Christmas, off to the garage sale.
I'm just at the part of the unboxing thinking. They could totally make a bridge accessory with the optic stuff they use to capture the strings vibration and sell it as a MIDI interface to add to a regular electric.
Looks like a "rebirth" (reverse engineering?) of the YouRock Guitar. I actually own one of those old YouRock synth attempts and, while I don't play it often, I love what it allows me to do with my Roland keys and Logic Pro X because I really cannot play keys to save my bloody life. (Some may argue the same about my guitar playing 🤣) This MIDI one, especially, there really is a place for such sound controllers because there are many self-taught musicians who only know their "mother" instrument and struggle enough with that. It is a guitar because it is playable "like" a guitar. No, it's not going to give you the real experience of a guitar. The version with built-in sounds was always going to be a gimmick, the same as my Roland keyboard is one part gimmick, one part covers band keyboardist journeyman tool. It doesn't play like a piano or an organ, yet pianists play piano on them. Happily! So, with the guitar you play and teach, I agree, this machine is not really a useful tool. For creative musicians, formally or self trained, who are interested in using their primary and best skills for controlling sound from their DAW or synths and samplers, this is another tool. It really doesn't matter that it's not got the same feel as a guitar, it's just another tool. I started my guitar synth journey with a second hand Roland GR-500 in 1983, and that monster was the best guitar I have ever owned, but the synth parts of it, I found very limiting. I've had an EH guitar synth pedal, monophonic, essentially a nasty fuzzbox with nasty filters and an unreliably triggered envelope shaper. I've had my YouRock for 12(?) years and I now also have a Boss SY-1 Pedal in my effects board. I can tell you unequivocally... the things that make guitar, acoustic or electric, the best acoustically and electro-dynamicly the best way to make sound is what you say _IS_ a guitar and the best way to control a synth from a guitar platform is the system used by YouRock and Aeroband guitar platforms. Horses for courses. Tuned strings, resonant chambers and/or pickups for acoustically generated sounds, silicone pressure pads and pluckable, untuned stringlets for generating control data signals. I play my YouRock like a guitar to generate expressive synth parts. The Aeroband principle is derived from the YouRock, they are "guitar controllers" therefore, they are guitars. Just like you don't play Deep Purple's "Burn" on an acoustic guitar or White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" on an acoustic, you don't play either on a "guitar controller", you play Jean Michelle Jarré's "Ocygen" or Rick Wakeman cadenzas but as a guitarist. Gotta say, too, considering their latency claims of "below 20mS", I think this Aeroband machine might replace my YouRock! (20mS latency, or less, is pretty much undetectable.)
26:17 Wonderful !! Seems like you're having a blast. 32:04 Waw can you play MyHeartWillGoOn with that sound ? Josh Scott needs this, with the box. He would schred on it.
Whenever you upload one of those videos, my brain tells me that you're going to review a fancy new version of the Ibanez Gary Willis signature bass. Because they kind of look similar.
The negative feedback getting millions of views is EXACTLY what they want.
You couldn't pay for that kind of reach if the reviews were positive - no one would be watching this is there wasn't the drama around it.
I'm glad you are taking their money though.
Love you Colin!
This exactly, even the other videos before and the meetings it def was for “face” to look like they cared but companies like this historically aren’t and act innocent when confronted as a tactic but just keep right in doing it. Product Scammers. Negative attention gets more eyes. 🤦♂️ my god plz stop Aeroband
Couldn't agree more. I don't get the bewilderment either. No promo is bad promo. This promo is golden for them. On top of that, you've made an entertaining video...which is what they also hoped for. They're getting all they want and people are likely still buying the product.
(I really wish people would finally stop saying - or rather believing - things like "no promo is bad promo". Bad promo is *always* bad. Yes, it might unfortunately give your product *some* attention and your company *some* business, but you will completely ruin your reputation in the process.)
@@Case_ It really isn't. Aero is proving that. That's why people say it. Sometimes, the old platitudes really are accurate. I get what you're saying but they're clearly just trying to hit quickly and vanish quick. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the owner of Aero likely does a thousand different things - all of them trash...LOL!!
I have no interest in karaoke or midi guitars. I am here for the story 😁
YES! This 😂
Me too!
On Amazon, it states 429$. A cheap guitar + midi keyboard + midi usb audio interface can cost more or less the same, and it would be way better than that piece of decoration in a karaoke that is gonna end up in a landfill.
Hmm.
…shill? Kidding. Not a bad point.
Check Jam Origin Midi Guitar😏
Well, I bought a used USB MIDI controller with 61 keys a few years ago. Was only € 20 and came with the USB cable. This would be all you need if you wanted to input notes with a keyboard.
If you want to use guitar it's a bit more complicated. I heard good things about this guitar MIDI software. If you want to go for hardware you would need to put a hex pickup on your guitar and get something like a Roland GR/BOSS SY/Axon AX or the Fishman Triple Play.
At that price point it's better off to buy a midi controller rather than a guitar shaped midi. If you want a real guitar that can also be a midi controller go for Jamstik. Sure it's $999, but it's a fully functional electric guitar with a midi controller.
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 No. Just no.
Midi over guitar is extremely tedious. You will run into problems with chords and playing anything faster than 60bpm.
Most of the jamstik reviews are sponsored. They won't compare it to a normal midi keyboard.
Honestly, leaving the click track in that was complete genius. Love it! haha
Your unboxing "music" made me cry laughing! Love an honest review. Cheers man!
The best part of the video if you later understand why it sounds like that 😂😂
I have never even heard a profetional pianist roll chords like that....
The background music while unpacking made my day 😂 Just great.
The Aeroband Saga is finally complete. Great video, I absolutely love your brutal honesty. Keep up the fantastic work
This thing really sounds like a toy my kids would play around with for 20 minutes on Christmas morning…then pack it away in the back of their closet waiting to get rid of it at the next garage sale! Makes no sense. Great honest review.
Ahh - the sequel we have all been waiting for :D
Greetings from Madrid, Henning.
Keep up the good and honest work.
I have to admit i love your rants and your sincerity. 😊😂
Reminds me of that car that homer simpson designed, lots of people follow dumb ideas right until the end
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
the music while unboxing 😂😂😂 your humor is unmatched !
It’s literally what I play with it later in the video
@@EytschPi42We KNOW! 🤣🤣🤣
Love that you recorded the unboxing music using the thing as a piano 😂
I'm not a guitarist, I have only seen videos about this after it came up in my feed. I love your honesty and for that, I have subscribed.
Please send this to Glenn and get a fearless review. Yall both need to be in the smashing
This is what you get when you have people who aren't musicians develop an "instrument" for musicians. They know nothing about their targeted audience so they please nobody.
Years ago I bought a Fishman TriplePlay guitar/midi pickup (larger version) and it works amazing. Put it on any real guitar and you send midi and play any synth/samples you want. Chords, leads, pads, bass...
The Fishman is about $430 which is almost the same price as this Aeroband thing but the Fishman actually works great on a real guitar.
Leo Fender and Ned Steinberger....
@@entropy1454 I think the difference between them and the aeroband people is: they listened to what musicians where telling them.
@@Mullewarp I totally agree. I just couldn't help myself from pointing out the irony.
Leo Fender wasn't a musician 😂😂😂
Hahaha seriously?! I've recently rewatched your previous masterpiece and they did it again lol
Hey, it's Ostro!
Oh gosh! The track used for the unboxing! Genius! 😎🤣
Honestly - this is now my favourite YT channel. Never change - it’s that combination of intelligence & integrity that keep us coming back.
This is honestly the funniest Beef ive seen so far just because they do not learn anything over and over and over like just do SOMETHING with his Suggestions Anything
Aeroband, this is the seventh week in a row that you presentes a midi guitar
The unboxing music tells you exactly which way this review is gonna go 😂
I am the proud owner of 2 YRG-1000's which i use exclusively as a guitar midi controller. The tracking is great and the latency is almost non existent. They have a whammy bar for bends, a "slide" funtion and a "tap" function that makes the fretboard touch-sensitive allowing you to play 2 handed on the fretboard. and all for less than 200EUR. If this Aeroband midi guitar had these functions (which im pretty sure they dont) i would actually buy it.
The 'only' problem with it dude is it's not being produced anymore
How would you bend a note on this device?
Same here - an YRG1000 and an YRG1000 Gen2. Great controllers, albeit a bit weak on velocity. The "Joystick" maps directly to VCF parameters - Plug'n'Play with most Synths. Sadly, discontinued.
@@bjornlangoren3002 Whammy bar.
@@faglork2007 A whammy bar is not at all the same.
Just the music in the unboxing gave me a clue what was I signing for...the saga continued and of course, it's not better 🤣 this was somehow painful to watch...you're a trooper Henning
MIDI Guitar 3 is in Beta, but it works well based on the YT demos. It works with any real guitar's regular 1/4 inch audio output. There is no need for a hex pickup. It is MPE capable. So it can map almost any parameter to any controller (switch, pedal, breath, etc.). MPE makes it almost plug and play with any MPE capable synth and / or sampler, hardware or software. And of course it will work with any MIDI mode 4 (Omni Off, Mono On) synths from the past.
You can also use it with any target which doesn't have either MPE or Mode 4 capability as long as you don't do individual string bending in a chord. So if you don't bend notes on a piano sound, for example, it will track wonderfully.
It is not flawless. But it does a better job of tracking without ghost notes than my Fishman Triple Play which was my go to standard for the last seven years. So if you want a studio tool that lets you play any instrument on a guitar, I'd check it out.
yup, im using version 2 and it works great, better than my roland gk and gr32
I just love the unhinged brutal honesty in your videos...that's the best demonstration of how in today's short attention span one can easily watch 45 min video without really doing any skipping :D
Der creepy Keyboardsound mit ALLEN falschen Tönen beim Auspacken... Henning. Du bist ein Meister! :D
i love how you really give it a go haha i would have thrown that out even if i was being paid to play it 😂 sucks how they are trying to get one over on us consumers when as many other comments have said weve had midi guitar solutions that are more affordable AND function a lot better than this for ages... and i can tell trying to play it makes you want to just play it on something that actually works like a keyboard, i dont think i would have given it as much of a shot as you did, great review henning!!
Can't wait until the 5. Part.
I've never watched Netflix, but I think it's something similar to this.
Can it be used as a canoe paddle?😳
Probably NOT! 😂
from an electronics engineer stance I can say it's so easy to fix, they're using off the shelf parts to do a custom job, the neck needs a total rework along with new controller code, just in the time in watching this I've worked it out, so why can't they?
Send them an email. If they can pay someone to trash them they might pay you to help them 😂🤷🏻♂️
Wym the neck needs a rework. You mean the silicone pressure sensors?
I'm an electronic technician and i been thinking about this problem but it just returns that it wold be better and cheaper to just pick individual string signals and send them for proccesing ethier with a micro controller or a small dsp
@rcninjastudio would you put the sensors that measure how hard you pick close to the nut for better muting?
Does it chug? 😂
This is a job for Ola
give him some Ministry style guitar stab samples and let him find out! \m/
Thank you for another honest review. Maybe next year they will release a uke version of it seems like the next silly thing for them to do.
Pauly, I could not post on your latest video, but I have to tell you Brother... I am 99.8% positive many of your viewers stand behind you on your reviews for being such honest and no bs ... dont change to the status Quo just to fit in do not ever change your style on your video's !! we need to take a stand against the corporate bs they try to sell us .. than you so much for your Honest reviews!!!
Like your unboxing background music 😂
The p.o.s.reminds me of the "Charlie Lab Digitar" in combination with "Döpfer Ribbon" in the 80s/90s.
This thing is the best, when it's in your hands.
Cause it makes so many musicians laugh.
But I think its a very expensive joke.
You can get a 1A Harley Benton Guitar for this money.
Cool videos! Keep on !
The Fishman thing looks like a fun and usable device.
Sold me on it.
The part where you record in a DAW is some of the funniest 'guitar' review footage I've ever seen. I played it a few times and laughed myself silly.
I think this is a compliment to your honest, influencer status. People just want it because you talk about it - good or bad. Cheers to you Henning, I always enjoy your videos and approach.
It blows me away how far these cats got into this process without thinking about asking an actual guitar player their thoughts first.
A fascinating ongoing story. I love and respect what you're doing. Seems like a guitar with piano characteristics. See what happens down the road.
“Now cheaper and as useless as it was before”. Best follow up review ever. My wife and I were rolling at the dinner table watching this. Love you man!
It's almost like you're acting as their marketing/R&D department. They build a thing, send it to you to review, you trash it, then they over-literally take your feedback onboard, build a new thing, send it to you... and the cycle repeats. After another 10-12 cycles of this, they could come up with a pretty good instrument.
Brilliant review, love it
I'm Litterally crying at the music 11.20, so funny, great vid Henning!
_Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change..._
-a wise man
Michael Mando, and it was an improvised line.
@@Traumglanz yeah.... sure makes sense to attribute a line that has been around for longer than the actor you're attributing it to is even alive
I thought it was albert eistein who said it.
I was kinda surprized when i found out its not the actual def
@@Traumglanz was einstein you rube
People called The Wright Brothers insane for trying to fly. Now you'll think about them flying ✈ the next time somebody references this insanity quote.❤
Without Henning, there would be no fun in youtube guitar wonderland. I really enjoy these... 😂
Another interesting option is Jam Origin´s Midi Guitar 2 (hopefully, soon 3). It is a software which turns the guitar into a MIDI controller, similar to the Fishman unit, with different limitations. However, you can use it with ANY guitar.
That unboxing music is a spiral into insanity. Bravo!
The fact that they showed their faces at Namm
11:39 Oooffff those are some jazzy chords there. Very.. Artistic and expressive
I told them too.... cos I thought it would be soo much fun to see what happens! 😂
The saga continues
We need honest reviews like this, so thanks for that. The unboxing vid music pretty much said this wasn't going to be a favourable one! These people are barking mad!
Love your honesty ,Great video n I’m sure some people will still buy this hand- held Kazoo 🤘🎸
The “ you rock guitar” did the same thing but was actually better.
Great job sir!
I love my Jamstick Studio. Both as a midi guitar and as a regular standalone guitar. Of course tracking is not perfect on midi, but you can always clean it up on your daw if you playing simple melodies. Don't expect it to track flying sweeps and complex chords changing rapidly because it won't. No midi guitar will (as of 2024).
Jamstick is 1000x better than this one you showed though. They used to have a possibly crappy one too (Jamstick 7), supposed to be for training. But ignoring that one, both the Jamstick Studio and Jamstick Classic are real, legit guitars that also do midi. You should do a review on one of them!
I'm dying here - what is this unboxing music!? :-D
Sxioo.... out of respect for your art..... I forced myself to watch this all the way through. Even though everything in my being cried 'no stop, I can't take any more'
It was painful.... but clearly not as painful as it was for you to review it!
The only saving grace was that this review made me laugh several times.
So I think this... um... device... has great potential in the comedy arena. I wonder if maybe actual guitar players would pay to sit and watch you review it again, probs work better if all sat together in a pub somewhere after a guitar show, drinking beer.
I think that would be a very fun thing to do. Anyhow... well done you for trying hard to keep a straight face .. and ... think of the money 💰. Outstanding review. In so many awkward ways that I'm still smiling.
Thank Rob, that means a lot!
It's one thing for a company to make a guitar that can be difficult to play because of sharp frets or cheap hardware or massive neck dive or whatever. Those are usually solvable, if frustrating to deal with. It's another thing altogether to make a guitar that even experienced players say "yeah, I can't play this." Not because it needs to be repaired or upgraded, but because it is so fundamentally different to play that it's a whole different instrument.
Exactly. This is not an "instrument" for guitar players and no one else would be interested. There is no way someone can learn how to play guitar through this junk (there would be more chances with rubber bands on a plank). For EUR 80, I would consider it as a toy - kind of laughing with my pals having an hour of fun but nothing more - but this price is just ridiculous...
Anyone who accuses this guy of being a "shill" obviously doesn't watch his videos. He is very honest about the products he reviews
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahaha that unboxing music man! it's like Car Bomb gone elevator muzak
I had apprehensions about this… glad I was right. Thanks for your service
There was a toy like that in the 80s or early 90s that I had. It was a fun toy you could make actual music on, I’m a pro guitar player now and it had an impact on my life, I learned sweet child o mine on it in fact. It wasn’t $400 though, holy moly that’s hilarious!
The main problem with this products is that real instruments are so cheap. Many or most people don't know that, and as a Christmas gift for some youngster, 3-400 isn't seen as very expensive among lots of people these days. Also, it connects to a computer, which most people have, as opposed to a guitar amp, which most people don't have. It will sell based on people's ignoranse.
This is a good and very honest channel.
as a guitar training tool I would never, but
I would love something like a midi guitar, conected to a virtual guitar vst, like shredagge or one of those, bind the mute part of it to the palm mute key, and use it like some sort of, DIGITAL GUITAR
I would mostly play deathcore breakdowns or something, so it would be very fun
I'd maybe pick one up at a flea market just to see what glitchy sonic chaos could be created with it. But it's a little to big to keep around just for the laughs. Circuit bending a kids keyboard or turning a greeting card into a contact mic is probably more fun, way cheaper and easier to stove away in your box of projects.
Thank you, Henning, for this GREAT review! Because of your diligent work here, I now know beyond the faintest shadow of doubt that I must stay as far away from AeroBand's guitars as possible but seriously consider purchasing a Fishman Triple Play. ¡Muchos gracias! Vielen Dank! Thank you so much!!!
Some time in the very late '90s I spent $100 for a set that had a pickup that fed a black box with a DSP engine inside that spit out MIDI. You mounted the pickup under your electric guitar strings and the DSP figured out what you were doing with each string and pumped it out the MIDI port.
I don't recall exactly how well it worked, but it worked much better than this. I bet there are even better such products available today, maybe even cheaper than $100.
I like the idea of people improving on the interface that the Madcatz Mustang controller was based on. I found it easier to play accurately than other midi guitars that have more realistic strings or even the weird rubber frets on the Artiphon Instrument 1. The plastic buttons on the fretboard made it much more like a keyboard than a guitar, which was a good thing. If a new midi guitar expands and improves on this interface then I get a little excited. The one thing that Artiphon got right was the sleak and modern design that doesn’t mimic the overused aesthetic of a super strat. Unfortunately it was a little too heavy and not reliable with it’s accuracy of note triggering. I would love to see something more like a midi “shamisen”. Two or three courses of “strings” would allow for less clutter and therefore less mistakes. I could play simple chords and leads and trigger samples accurately using a device that is flexible as far as incorporating into my own custom aesthetic. I probably have very unique needs and expectations that aren’t for the mass market, which renders this whole conversation pointless. But I’ll always have an ear to the ground when it comes to new midi guitars, hoping that someone will have the same idea.
Been watching you randomly every time you pop up in my feed, but this wonderful roast made me sub as well.
It's like that scene in Ted. "No one has ever had the balls to talk to me like that" 😂😂
To be hanging on the wall of shame 😂😂😂 love animals at the end ❤
Was the unboxing music created using the wonderful Aeroband MIDI contraption, by any chance?
It’s literally the the song I am trying to record later in the video
They hire you because you are a gem ❤❤❤❤💎
11:40 - I love what you did here! It's as if the ride cymbal is out of tune. I've never felt this before!
The aeroband people had to have dug up the thing from the 80s that was THE EXACT SAME THING. I can't find the model because every time you search for guitar-shaped synth you get SynthAxe, and guitar-shaped keyboard yields Keytars for miles. But in the 80s, we had this little plastic Yamaha (edit: maybe Casio) thing that had exactly the same setup as the aeroband guitar - steel strings just over the picking area, with a molded rubber fretboard that picked up your fretted positions as 'keys' that were then sounded by plucking the little string section.
Yup as expected JUNK! You have more patience than I would lol
Oh no, I was almost onboard to throw away my 7-string dreams just because this has a detune option and I like to record but I've been watching your reviews for years and I think I trust your word on this. I was just planning on using this as a MIDI controller and it has the looks if you ever wanted to play it live with a laptop for some sweet sweet sounds but I think I'm better off with other options.
Hopefully they're hard at work on another version but if no one working on it is a musician, they need to collab with a reputable company and get this thing to take off because I can see so much potential but it's a shame the execution fell short.
Looks like a reincarnation of the Casio DG series from the 80's. I have a couple. Pat Metheney recorded with it, one of the first digital guitars, now considered a "holy grail" for collectors.
I'll wait for the 7 string version
Send the darn thing for a review to Glenn, it would break the internet!
After seeing the previous video about this whatever it is, the story was done for me and I cannot imagine that this will ever be some kind of spectacular.
The background music 🤣
After I heard the intro track, I had a hunch which way this would go...
Henning did the Cobra Kai on this: No mercy. 😂
As deserved. This company isn't even phased by any suggestions or constructive criticism. It's like they don't get their feelings hurt, or even hear the advice. Goes right over their heads. Blows my mind.
@@charlesharper7292 You could be right, but I also have a theory. Henning says that no one in the company is a musician. That's why they have no idea how to make a useful midi "guitar". There are so many aspects of it and so many controls that they just don't know exist.
@@nedim_guitar yeah. That's why if they don't get someone, employed qualified, a competent professional musician PREFERABLY, a guitar player, this project will crash and burn.
@@charlesharper7292 Yeah, and it's not fun to see, even though it's a little funny. If we're going to learn anything, it's that if you want to start a business, do something that you know how to do. It's a plus if it's useful.
@@nedim_guitar I hate to see anyone's entrepreneurial project fail, when with planning, and actually educating yourself you could make something cool and useful. But this thing is like Henning said, a Christmas gift for the kids, and after Christmas, off to the garage sale.
I’m just glad you got paid sir. If’n I wanted midi i’d go for the Gk-2 midi widget.
I also like saying widget.
Widget widget widget.
I'm just at the part of the unboxing thinking. They could totally make a bridge accessory with the optic stuff they use to capture the strings vibration and sell it as a MIDI interface to add to a regular electric.
Scratch that. It's terrible nonetheless.
I'm very glad your making this video.
OK thank for doing an honest appraisal. I'll just keep my old Ovation to noodle around on.
Cant wait for the next one that I will also not buy....!! :D
Great guitar! Can't wait to pick one up!
I was waiting for the new Season of Aeroband 😅😅
Not gonna lie, I am super interested and everything you're warning me about... It's not scaring me. 11 mins in.
429 € at Amazon ... crazy !
my Fishman Tripleplay is laughing its ass off
Amazing! Why on earth do they keep chucking money at you?! Kudos for keeping it together during the review.
You're the best human being ever!!!
Looks like a "rebirth" (reverse engineering?) of the YouRock Guitar. I actually own one of those old YouRock synth attempts and, while I don't play it often, I love what it allows me to do with my Roland keys and Logic Pro X because I really cannot play keys to save my bloody life. (Some may argue the same about my guitar playing 🤣) This MIDI one, especially, there really is a place for such sound controllers because there are many self-taught musicians who only know their "mother" instrument and struggle enough with that. It is a guitar because it is playable "like" a guitar. No, it's not going to give you the real experience of a guitar. The version with built-in sounds was always going to be a gimmick, the same as my Roland keyboard is one part gimmick, one part covers band keyboardist journeyman tool. It doesn't play like a piano or an organ, yet pianists play piano on them. Happily!
So, with the guitar you play and teach, I agree, this machine is not really a useful tool. For creative musicians, formally or self trained, who are interested in using their primary and best skills for controlling sound from their DAW or synths and samplers, this is another tool. It really doesn't matter that it's not got the same feel as a guitar, it's just another tool. I started my guitar synth journey with a second hand Roland GR-500 in 1983, and that monster was the best guitar I have ever owned, but the synth parts of it, I found very limiting. I've had an EH guitar synth pedal, monophonic, essentially a nasty fuzzbox with nasty filters and an unreliably triggered envelope shaper. I've had my YouRock for 12(?) years and I now also have a Boss SY-1 Pedal in my effects board.
I can tell you unequivocally... the things that make guitar, acoustic or electric, the best acoustically and electro-dynamicly the best way to make sound is what you say _IS_ a guitar and the best way to control a synth from a guitar platform is the system used by YouRock and Aeroband guitar platforms. Horses for courses. Tuned strings, resonant chambers and/or pickups for acoustically generated sounds, silicone pressure pads and pluckable, untuned stringlets for generating control data signals. I play my YouRock like a guitar to generate expressive synth parts. The Aeroband principle is derived from the YouRock, they are "guitar controllers" therefore, they are guitars. Just like you don't play Deep Purple's "Burn" on an acoustic guitar or White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" on an acoustic, you don't play either on a "guitar controller", you play Jean Michelle Jarré's "Ocygen" or Rick Wakeman cadenzas but as a guitarist.
Gotta say, too, considering their latency claims of "below 20mS", I think this Aeroband machine might replace my YouRock! (20mS latency, or less, is pretty much undetectable.)
26:17 Wonderful !! Seems like you're having a blast.
32:04 Waw can you play MyHeartWillGoOn with that sound ?
Josh Scott needs this, with the box. He would schred on it.
The old Hollywood motto..” There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
Whenever you upload one of those videos, my brain tells me that you're going to review a fancy new version of the Ibanez Gary Willis signature bass. Because they kind of look similar.
22:45 - 22:52 🤣🤣🤣 lol . Epic review👍
Would love to see a review of the Fishman TriplePlay, and the JamStick.