Your Rock Guitar 1000 User manual

Your Rock Guitar Model 1000 - Revision 1.3
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Updated FeatUre List
FebrUary 21, 2011

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Rock Band ® 3 Pro Mode
Playing Alongside RB3 Pro Mode
You Rock Mode
Restore to Factory Presets
Sleep Mode
Checking Firmware/Librarian/Preset versions/ Battery Life
Fret Select
Control Panel Features
Tap Velocity
MIDI MONO Mode
Preset Options
Velocity Tables
Open Tunings
Transpose
Whammy bar Star Power/Overdrive Activation
Global Settings

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roCk baNd™3 pro Mode
e You Rock Guitar ® is compatible with Rock Band™3 Pro Mode.
NOTE: the Mad Catz ® MIDI PRO-Adapter™ cannot be used to navigate menus
outside of Rock Band™3. However, once in the game, the Mad Catz ® MIDI
PRO-Adapter™ will come online. At this point the YRG can be used to navigate
throughout the game.
1. Connect your YRG to the Mad Catz ® MIDI PRO-Adapter™ using the
5-pin MIDI cable.
2. Plug the Mad Catz ® MIDI PRO-Adapter™ into the console.
3. On the You Rock Guitar, press and release the MUSIC and GAME
buttons simultaneously. Both lights will stay on, and the panel LED’s
will read “rb.”
4. Power on your console, start
Rock Band™3, and use the
button mapping below to
navigate using the YRG.
To interface to your game console, you will need:
1. e appropriate Mad Catz ®MIDI PRO-Adapter™for your console
(Wii™, Xbox 360™, Playstation ® 3).
2. Standard 5-pin MIDI cable.
Getting Started:

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• Start
• Select
• A
• B
• 1
• 2
• Home
• Start
• Select
• X
• O
• Square
• Triangle
• Home
• Start
• Back
• A
• B
• X
• Y
• Home
Plus
Minus
Play
Record
Track
Midi
Game
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pLayiNg aLoNgside roCk baNd™3 pro Mode
In addition to the standard features of Rock Band™3 Pro Mode, the YRG
allows you to listen to your performance during the game. is aords the
opportunity to turn your gaming experience into a learning experience. To
hear your performance plug your 1/4” cable into both your YRG and your
amplier. NOTE: You can also use headphones via the 1/8” out.
1. Leave Rock Band™mode by pressing MUSIC and GAME simultaneously.
2. Go to music mode and select your instrument and or synth sound. NOTE:
Your instrument settings cannot be edited inside Rock Band™mode.
3. Once you have adjusted all the desired parameters press MUSIC and
GAME simultaneously to enter back into Rock Band™mode.
To change sounds:

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Fret seLeCt
Fret Select is a new technology developed so as to make switching between
presets, guitars, and synths as fast and easy as possible. Rather than scrolling
through these settings using the control panel’s up/down arrows, jumping to
your favorite setting is now as easy as pressing down on a single fret.
Setting Presets via Fret Select
1. Press and hold the MUSIC
button on the control panel.
2. Press a single fret to select the
corresponding preset. e
presets are arranged on the
fretboard numerically, starting
from 1 at the rst fret of the
lowest string and ascending
up the neck. e next string
begins at 21, the next at 41,
and so forth. e numbers wrap once the
maximum preset has been reached.
3. Release the MUSIC button.
Ex - Holding MUSIC
and pressing the pic-
tured fret selects Preset
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Setting Guitar Sounds via Fret Select
1. Press and hold the GUITAR button on the control panel.
2. Press a single fret to select the corresponding preset. e presets are
arranged on the fretboard numerically, starting from 1 at the rst fret of
the lowest string and ascending up the neck. e next string begins at 21,
the next at 41, and so forth. e numbers wrap once the maximum guitar
sound has been reached.
3. Release the GUITAR button.

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Setting Synth Sounds via Fret Select
1. Press and hold the SYNTH button on the control panel.
2. Press a single fret to select the corresponding preset. e presets are arranged on
the fretboard numerically, starting from 1 at the rst fret of the lowest string and
ascending up the neck. e next string begins at 21, the next at 41, and so forth.
e numbers wrap once the maximum synth sound has been reached.
3. Release the SYNTH button.
Setting Backing Tracks via Fret Select
1. Press and hold the TRACK button on the control panel.
2. Press a single fret to select the corresponding preset. e presets are arranged on
the fretboard numerically, starting from 1 at the rst fret of the lowest string and
ascending up the neck. e next string begins at 21, the next at 41, and so forth.
e numbers wrap once the maximum synth sound has been reached.
3. Release the TRACK button.
Checking Firmware/Librarian/Preset versions
and Battery Life
1. Press and hold the MUSIC button on the control panel.
2. e LED display will show C=xxxx L=yyyy, P=zzzz where C=the currently
installed rmware version, L=the currently installed librarian, and P=the
currently installed preset version.
3. Additionally, the orange string indicators at the bottom of the LED display will
light up. e fewer that light, the closer to dead your batteries are.

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sLeep Mode
So as to avoid unnecessary power drain, the You Rock Guitar will automati-
cally put itself in to sleep mode aer 5 minutes of disuse. Note that this
applies only when the YRG is being powered via batteries, not via USB. To
take the YRG out of sleep mode, toggle the power switch o and on.
restoriNg FaCtory presets
To restore all presets to factory settings, press and hold GUITAR/SYNTH
and press TRACK. Note that doing so resets alterations made solely to the
99 presets. Firmware and Librarian versions will remain wholly unaltered.
yoU roCk Modes
e YRG’s You Rock Modes allow for a type of play designed to make the
experience of learning the guitar more enjoyable from day one. ere are
three distinct You Rock Modes, as follows:
• You Rock Mode 1prevents the player from hitting any wrong notes by
adjusting out-of-key notes to the nearest in-key note.
• You Rock Mode 2 plays a scratch or “bad note sound” when playing
out-of-key notes, similar to that sound made upon playing an incorrect
note in a rhythm video game.
• You Rock Mode 3 is similar to Mode 2, except that an incorrect note
will simply not be played.

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1. Press and hold the YOU ROCK button.
2. e LED will display a number, 1-3. Using the up and down buttons on the
control panel, scroll to the number corresponding to your desired You Rock
Mode.
3. Release the YOU ROCK button.
4. To exit You Rock Mode, simply press the YOU ROCK button again.
yoU roCk sCaLes
e You Rock Guitar has two types of You Rock Scales:
• Type 1 scales correspond with the built in backing tracks, and are selected
by default upon selecting a track.
• Type 2 scales correspond to standard major and minor keys. ese can be
selected by holding down the YOU ROCK button, and using Fret Select
(see page 2 of this insert) on either of the E strings. Notes selected on the
Low E string will select the corresponding Major scale. Notes selected on
the High E string will select the corresponding minor scale.
Note: Setting the You Rock Mode scale this way will NOT transpose the
active backing track. It is therefore not recommended that you change keys if
you wish to play along with the included backing tracks.
yoU roCk Modes (CoNt.)
As an example, selecting fret 2 on the low E string, as shown in
the picture to the le, will set the You Rock Scale to F# Major.
Pressing the 4th fret on the high E string, as shown in the picture
to the right, will set the You Rock Scale to Ab Minor.

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Midi MoNo Mode
MIDI 17, 18, 19, 20 are reserved for MIDI MONO mode. is means that the
MIDI information for each string is transmitted on a separate MIDI channel.
is also allows for polyphonic bending with SLIDE on.
Channel Mappings are as follows:
Midi 17:
Lo E Midi Channel 1
A Midi Channel 2
D Midi Channel 3
G Midi Channel 4
B Midi Channel 5
Hi E Midi Channel 6
Midi 18:
Lo E Midi Channel 7
A Midi Channel 8
D Midi Channel 9
G Midi Channel 10
B Midi Channel 11
Hi E Midi Channel 12
Midi 19:
Lo E Midi Channel 6
A Midi Channel 5
D Midi Channel 4
G Midi Channel 3
B Midi Channel 2
Hi E Midi Channel 1
Midi 20:
Lo E Midi Channel 12
A Midi Channel 11
D Midi Channel 10
G Midi Channel 9
B Midi Channel 8
Hi E Midi Channel 7
is setting allows you to alter the volume of notes triggered using
TAP mode. To do so, simply hold down the TAP button and scroll
through the volume settings (0-11) with the volume knob. Setting
11 will cause the loudest triggers, whereas setting 0 will silence the
triggers entirely.
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Five control panel submenus have been added. Each allows you to cus-
tomize the performance of the You Rock Guitar to better suit your play-
ing needs. ese submenus are ordered numerically.
To access a submenu:
1. Press and hold the MUSIC button.
2. Press the PLAY button to access the next submenu. e orange string
indicator lights at the bottom of the LED display will begin to ash.
e number of ashing lights corresponds to the current submenu.
3. Release the MUSIC button.
4. To return to the Home menu, press the MUSIC button.
Submenu 1 - Transposition
Here you can transpose the active guitar, synth, or MIDI channels up to
one full octave above or below the normal settings. To do so:
1. Press the button corresponding to the soundset you would like to alter.
2. e LED display will show a number. By default, this number is ‘0’, but
if you have previously transposed the soundset in this way, then the
number shown will be your previous setting.
3. Use the UP and DOWN buttons to choose your desired transposition.
Each single digit deviation from ‘0’ represents a 1/2 step transposition,
either up or down. For instance, transposing the standard tuning
(EADGBE) of the guitar patch down to -2 will make it so that the
strings are actually tuned to DGCFAD.

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Submenu 3 - Velocity Tables
Here you can adjust the reaction of the You Rock Guitar to various
modes of picking. Each of the velocity tables handles dynamics – that is,
your ability to control the volume of a triggered note by changing the ap-
plied force of an attack – in a slightly dierent way.
Velocity Tables 1-6 allow for dierent dynamic ranges, with 1 being the
most versatile, and 6 being the least. Table 7, however, has no dynamic
range, rather setting all triggered notes to play at the same volume.
Within this submenu, simply depress the fret corresponding to your de-
sired Velocity Table. Fret 1 corresponds to Table 1, Fret 2 to Table 2, etc.
is can be done on any string.
Note: a dierent Velocity Table can be assigned to the guitar, synth, and MIDI
patches independently for each of the 99 presets. Simply press the button cor-
responding to the instrument whose Velocity Table you wish to change. If no
button is pressed, guitar will be selected by default.To save changes made to your
current preset, hold down the MUSIC button and press the RECORD button.
Switching between presets without doing so will cause you to lose any unsaved
changes.
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Submenu 2 - Open Tunings
Here you can set up to 9 custom tunings. From the home menu, these
can be accessed by holding OPEN and using the UP/DOWN buttons to
scroll through tunings -1 to -9. Once you have reached your desired tun-
ing number, set the open tuning by doing the following:
1. Press and hold the OPEN button.
2. Using the 12th fret as a reference, press a fret above or below that
point to select the new open note for that string. For example, to set
“Dropped-D” tuning, press the 10th fret (D) on the lowest string.
is will set the open tuning for that string to the D below standard E
tuning (two frets below 12, two half steps below E).
3. Release the OPEN button. Your custom tuning will now be saved
under the Open setting (-1 through -9) that you have selected.

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Submenu 4 - Preset Options
Here you can customize the performance of many aspects of the YRG
presets. Note that alterations made here will aect only your currently se-
lected preset. Within this submenu, use the UP/DOWN buttons to scroll
to your desired parameter. ese are as follows:
Note: To save changes made to your current preset, hold
down the MUSIC button and press the RECORD button.
Switching between presets without doing so will cause you
to lose any unsaved changes.
• od – Open String Damping
Enabling this option makes it more dicult to trigger open notes.
Use this if you are experiencing unwanted note triggers when soloing
up the neck. With this option displayed, press down on any fret to
toggle open note damping on or o (1 is on, 0 is o ).
• Sr – Slide Range
Here you can set the number of half steps (1-12) you can slide up or
down. Note that the YRG uses pitch bend for slide, and that if you
slide outside of the set acceptable range, you will trigger a new note.
With this option displayed, press down on a fret to set your desired
slide range. is can be done on any of the six strings. Depressing the
rst fret will allow you to slide up or down a single halfstep, while
depressing the twelh will allow you to slide up or down a full octave.
• br – Whammy Bar Range
Here you can set the number of half steps (1-12) by which the fully
engaged whammy bar will alter the pitch of any notes being played.
With this option displayed, press down on a fret to select your desired
whammy range. is can be done on any of the six strings. Depressing
the rst fret will allow you to bend down or up a single half step,
while depressing the twelh fret will allow you to bend up or down
a full octave. Note that this setting is limited to being no higher than
the current Slide Range setting (if ‘Sr’ is set to 5, for instance, ‘br’ can
be set anywhere from 1-5, but not to 6).
Note: to reset these parameters to their default settings,
simply press and hold the RECORD button while within
submenu 5. When the operation is complete, the lights on
the control panel will briey ash.

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Submenu 4 - Preset Options (cont.)
• PC – MIDI Patch Change
Here you can set the MIDI patch assigned to the current preset. With
this option displayed, press down on the fret corresponding to your
desired setting (1-128). Fret 1 on the low E string corresponds with
setting 1, Fret 1 on the A to 23, and so on, up to Fret 18 on the high
E, which corresponds with setting 128.
• Hd – Hammer Decay
Here you can set the rate at which hammer-on velocity decays aer
initially triggering a note. e lower the setting (0-21), the longer the
decay. At setting 0, in fact, you will be able to hammer on indenitely,
with no decay whatsoever. With this option displayed, press down
on a fret to select your desired decay setting. is can be done on any
of the six strings. Fret one corresponds to decay setting zero, and fret
twenty-two corresponds to decay setting twenty-one.
• Pd – Modulation Pitch Depth
Here you can adjust the depth of the modulation caused by
employing the joystick. With this option displayed, press down on
the fret corresponding to your desired setting (0-127). Fret 1 on the
low E string corresponds with setting 0, Fret 1 on the A to 22, and so
on, up to Fret 18 on the high E, which corresponds with setting 127.
• PS – Modulation Pitch Speed
Here you can adjust the frequency of the modulation caused by
employing the joystick. With this option displayed, press down on
the fret corresponding to your desired setting (0-127). Fret 1 on the
low E string corresponds with setting 0, Fret 1 on the A to 22, and so
on, up to Fret 18 on the high E, which corresponds with setting 127.

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Submenu 5 - Global Settings
Here, much like in submenu 4, you can customize the behavior of many
aspects of the YRG. Alterations made here, however, aect not only a
single given preset, but the behavior of the guitar as a whole. Within this
submenu, use the UP/DOWN buttons to scroll to your desired param-
eter. ese are as follows:
• HE – Hammer Enable
With this option selected, press down on any fret to toggle hammer-
ons and pull-os on/o (1is on, 0 is o ). Note that, while in TAP
mode, hammer-ons and pull-os will be enabled, regardless of what
this parameter is set to.
• HP – Hammer Pre-Delay
is parameter allows you to set a slight delay between when a note
is hammered on and when said note actually sounds. is is useful
if you are getting double triggers from hammer-ons when plucking.
e higher the setting (0-21), the longer the delay before the note is
sounded. With this option displayed, press down on a fret. is can
be done on any of the six strings. e rst fret corresponds to setting
zero, and the twenty-second fret corresponds to setting twenty-one.
• SG – String Gain
is parameter allows you to set the gain of each string individually.
A value of 1-10 can be assigned, with 10 being the setting with the
quietest response, and 1 being the setting with the loudest. With
this option displayed, press down on a fret on the string whose gain
setting you wish to alter. e rst fret corresponds to setting one, the
second to setting two, and so on. See note on next page.
• tS – Trigger Sensitivity
Here you can set the level of vibration required to strike a note. A
value of 1-10 can be assigned, with 10 being the setting where a
note requires the least vibration to trigger, and 1 being the setting
where a note requires the most vibration to trigger. With this option
displayed, press down on the fret corresponding to your desired
setting. e rst fret corresponds to setting one, the second to setting
two, and so on. See note on next page.
Note: to reset these parameters to their default settings, simply press and
hold the RECORD button while within submenu 5. When the opera-
tion is complete, the lights on the control panel will briey ash.

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Submenu 5 - Global Settings (cont.)
• CF – Crosstalk lter
is setting, when enabled, reduces the input from strings adjacent
to the last string successfully strummed or plucked. Enable this to
reduce the appearance of unwanted note triggers. With this option
displayed, press down on any fret to toggle the Crosstalk Filter on/o
(1 is on, 0 is o ).
• AS – Auto Silence on/o
By default, when you li your ngers o the fretboard, the YRG
mutes all notes currently sounding. is parameter allows you to
disable that feature. With this option displayed, press down on any
fret to toggle auto silencing on/o (1 is on, 0 is o ).
• LH – Le Hand Mode
With this option displayed, press down any fret to toggle le handed
mode on/o (1 is on, 0 is o ).
WhaMMy bar star poWer/oVerdriVe aCtiVatioN
A new method for activating Star Power/Overdrive in Guitar Hero/
Rockband has been implemented. As an alternative to using the
mute bar, you can now pull the whammy bar up (away from the
body of the guitar). e eect of pushing the whammy bar down
(towards the guitar body) remains unchanged.
Note: e String Gain and Trigger Sensitivity parameters can be used to adjust
the guitar for dierent playing styles. ese two parameters are global settings and
they do interact - use them to adjust and tweak the feel of the instrument to your
playing style
Trigger Sensitivity is a global parameter and applies to all strings evenly. String
Gain is individually adjustable per string. Typically you should use Trigger Sensitiv-
ity to adjust the guitar so that it feels like it is responding correctly to your playing
without signicant crosstalk. In some cases, you may nd that one of the strings is
louder or soer than the others - use String Gain to compensate for this. e de-
fault settings are 5, and it should not be necessary to make signicant adjustments.