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This MIDI guitar is my favorite new way to make music
The Jamstik Classic.
For many years now‚ my Stratocaster has been a memento hanging on my wall representing the time before I got a MacBook. I swapped my electric guitar out for a 25-key keyboard controller and a library of virtual instruments once my career headed to podcasting. In Logic Pro or Ableton‚ the Stratocaster could only sound like a Stratocaster‚ but the MIDI keyboard could be anything I needed it to be for my music or sound design work.
But recently‚ I bought a new guitar that offers those very same strengths: Jamstik’s Classic MIDI Guitar‚ which has brought my unused fretboard skills back into the digital audio workstation (DAW)‚ with almost as much flexibility as the musical keyboard.
The Jamstik Classic is a fully traditional electric guitar...
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