Gadgety News

Here is the You Rock Guitar from ezGear!

This six-stringer is compatible with both Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band: World Tour for Wii, and your PC or Mac.

The You Rock has a full multi-touch fretboard which simulates a “real” guitar with six strings instead of five buttons.

I might actually stand a chance of playing this instead of the humilation that I faced over Christmas!

You can hook this axe via a standard .25-inch connection, or plug in your iPod or MP3 player through the mini-stereo jack to rock out to your own private collection of shredtastic tracks - Some Vai or Satriani I think……yeah like my skills run to that!

The folks over at ezGear promise a SDK for even further expandability by Spring.

Looks like it’ll cost around $150 and be available in either Q2 or Q3.

I’ve been looking around at various things to attach an iPod or iPhone to and found this little beauty.

The Belkin TuneStudio looks to be a neat bit of gear.

Just slot your iPod into the socket and you can start recording your musical ideas or, indeed, your band in CD quality.

It has four inputs, 3 band EQs per channel and even phantom power.

All this for a lot less than a ProTools MBox Pro - £179.95.

Well, thankfully, it seems my job as a bass player is safe, for now.

Techdirt are waving the human flag.

There has been a study of how people’s brains reacted to music that was played by human musicians vs. computers.

The upshot is that our brains respond more to the music from musicians. FOR THE WIN!!! :0D

Basically, it sounds like our brains can detect the fact that humans play music with more feeling, and we respond accordingly.

Although………………there are some human musicians that I’d gladly feed to a waste-disposal unit…..but hey…..it takes all sorts dunnit?