Jamstix VSTi Interactive Drummer review

Jamstix Interactive drummer by Rayzoon , http://www.rayzoon.com/, is used exclusively on all of my music. I have been using it for almost a year now and still continues to blow my mind how real it plays. The interface is very easy to use and like anything else takes a short time to navigate how it operates. It has tons of controls and parameters to modify how the drummer model plays and reacts to the song pattern you create. Rayzoon offers expansion packs and drummer model add ons to give you infinite percussuon possibilities. This is a great weapon to have in any home studio arsenal.

You Rock Guitar MIDI controller review

I had recently purchased the YouRockGuitar, http://www.yourockguitar.com/, to use as a MIDI controller in my home studio. I would have to say that I was pretty pleased with this device after using it for only a few minutes after opening the package. Most of the built in synth sounds are pretty good.  However most of the guitar sounds leave much to be desired. My intention is to use this strictly to control the VST instruments loaded in my DAW much like you would do with a keyboard. I cannot see using this device as a primary instrument to take center stage in your recording. It would be suited better as a complimentary instrument to add synth, piano, etc. as color to your music. It does have some limitations but it does beat having to shell out close to $1000 bucks for a Roland Midi system
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For a musician with a home studio on a budget, this YouRockGuitar is perfect and will get you decent results. I will be featuring the use of the YouRockGuitar on my upcoming CD release later this summer.