The Yamaha EZ-EG Guitar Midi Controller Thread

[mbncp]

144 velocity-sensitive fret keys

Now that sounds nice

List price $1495

I paid my second ez-ag less than a 100 U$ (new)
But at least it's good to know there is something.

[RunBeerRun]

I used to have a Jackson Randy Rhoads-V guitar, and playing sitting down was odd, it would slide around.

[arturito]

where did u find it so cheap

[mbncp]

where did u find it so cheap

I got it from Thomann Germany and as I'm in switzerland they removed VAT so I had it for about 68 € + 12 for shipping. And I didn't have to pay swiss VAT.
Was a good deal
But they don't sell them anymore, it was probably the last one.

[Shane Sanders]

Got my new EZ-EG, it works great.

I always babied my old one(which I bought new), especially when removing the MIDI cable from the MIDI out jack, which I thought could easily get loose.

Oh well.....They have a new Ztar for $1400 list, maybe like $1100 actual price? I'm not about to buy one, but at least the pricing is getting more realistic.

They're $1400 straight up, there's no mark down on 'em since Harvey sells them direct and just charges what he needs to to recoup and make some profit.

[Shane Sanders]

Yeah, the pricing is better on the new Ztar but it looks
like you've got to play the damn thing standing up...unless
its got one of those pop-out lap bars like Steinberger guitars.
In any case its kinda fugly!

Cheers......CL

Yep, they have a leg rest. Balance is supposed to be pretty good on them, too. I don't have mine in my hands yet, but will soon.

[Shane Sanders]

Buy yourself a back up model on the cheap:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184968

[dr.macgruder]

who knows where i can get some free songs???

[RunBeerRun]

That $100 plus shipping is a great deal. My ez-ag has lasted a long time, I don't know why my eg busted, pretty sure it wasn't a loose midi jack, but the actual insides.

Free songs: you can get them anywhere, I went to http://www.mididb.com , I think that was the address. Now the fretboard won't light up with regular midi songs, they need I think the sysex data in each song, so you'd have to pay for midi downloads from Yamaha.

[dr.macgruder]

i found a bundle pack on a websearch, and like two of the songs lightup... i dunno wy

[dr.macgruder]

[dr.macgruder]

sysex data ??? me thinks you smart... hmm... how could i put that in any midi file???

[ugo]

i played my ez-ag for the first time in quite a while today and had a little fun with it...which got me wondering, what happened to the ezg suite? i noticed that the home page of the yahoo group states that its no longer available.

there was an update planned that, if i remember correctly, was supposed to offer individual tuning for each string. did that ever get released?

[RunBeerRun]

Yes there was a new Ez_G suite release, it did altered tunings. I still use the old suite. I guess the dev doesn't want to maintain a webstore/customer support situation.

Then there's the one hta script, that works, I haven't used it in a long time. I always like the ndcmidi plugs, I used one for routing all channels down to channel 1 and another to filter out all low velocity notes. It's not like the newbs have nowhere to go to get a decent setup.

[dr.macgruder]

y'all seem to know some things I don't about this ez eg... how come i can't get midi to play through my computer... i have windows xp...