Welcome to the EZ-AG / EG page
EDIT: I have disabled comments here and set up the forum.
Welcome to the new online resource for Yamaha EZ-AG and EZ-EG MIDI guitars.
Right now the main goal is:
- Establish a clear FAQ and step-by-step how-to guides for using and modding the EZAG/EG - principally as a MIDI controller.
The more long-term goals for this site are:
- Provide all the information required to do everything the EZ-AG / EG can.
- Provide that information clearly, and from first principles.
- Provide a (more) navigable community and forum, with audio and video stuff.
IMPORTANT: Plea for assistance!
If anyone is willing to help there is one obvious task to complete first: distilling the KVR thread.
This thread has been running for almost 4 years (!) and contains probably every piece of useful data so far uploaded to the net about the EZ family. If anyone who's interested in helping with this could email me at brokebust@gmail.com. Even if someone could be bothered to generate a html document containing all 100 pages of posts in one place that would be incredibly useful, and would greatly speed up the process of getting this place populated with meaty chunks of info.
If anyone would be willing to contribute anything else then let me know about that too - or even if you'd just be generally interested in helping. I'll soon start setting up contributers so that this site can expand.
In the meantime you can leave a comment below (even if you're not signed up). Suggestions are always welcome.
Comments
EZ-EG on the way....
I tracked down an EG in North Carolina. Now I've become the guy that tracks it on UPS every 2 hours.. haha. I've made it through about 70 pages of the KVR thread.... It's kinda like the nerdy musician version of a romance novel.... occasional drama but mainly lots of gushing over how great all the great twists and turns are. :) Anyway, I need to get back to reading and learning about these scripts.
EZ-AG Fret Trigger Killer
After spending a little time with my Black Beauty, it's abundantly apparent that the first, last and only thing I need to make it a useful midi controller is to eliminate the junky-sounding fret hammer-on triggers. It's too bad, because I LIKE them when you want to play fast left hand runs with pull-offs and such, but they totally mess up chording as the chord sounds softly as your chording hand depresses the "strings" just before the actual strum or pluck, which wrecks everything. Does anyone know the simplest path to eliminating these triggers? It may be tough as they are built into the unit as a set feature. Maybe we'll have to simply filter any midi note-ons below a certain velocity?
Yeah I've seen solutions
Yeah I've seen solutions posted in the thread. I'll try and wade through some of it over the weekend and start populating the FAQ. I think Markleford's guitar environment will do it if I remember right - but I haven't used it yet!
Is this v. 3.13 now a
Is this v. 3.13 now a standalone for basic midi control, or do I still need some sort of separate app/router? This appears to be complete and integrated as is.
I notice the velocity of the
I notice the velocity of the AG is quite low. What's the proper method using the velocity tools to uniformly raise the output? Got 3 velocity controls, tried raising the output to 100-127 which helped, but it created a very uneven scenario. Seems like I need to raise the input, too. And what's that Op. velocity tool?
Right... we need a forum asap!
Obviously the Forum is more important than the FAQs and How-To because that's where that information will ultimately come from I suppose. Hadn't thought of that!
-- edit: I made a forum and it's live. Try posting a topic in there - also, if you can be bothered, start spreading the good word and letting people on the KVR thread that there might be a better place for them here.